“Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.”

― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table

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“To such an extent does passion manifest itself in us as a temporary and distinct character, which not only takes the place of our normal character but actually obliterates the signs by which that character has hitherto been discernible.”

― Marcel Proust, Swann's Way

“We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.”

― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“we want to live and move, though we have no reason to, because it happens that it is the nature of life to live and move, to want to live and move. If it were not for this, life would be dead.”

― Jack London, The Sea-Wolf

“We have not seen great things done in our time except by those who have been considered mean; the rest have failed.”

― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.”

― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet In Heaven

“In our society, those who have the best knowledge of what is happening are also those who are furthest from seeing the world as it is.”

― George Orwell, 1984

“Industry is the ceaseless piracy of the rich against the poor.”

― Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays

“Learning would spoil the best nigger in the world. Now . . . if you teach that nigger (speaking of myself) how to read, there would be no keeping him. It would forever unfit him to be a slave.”

― Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

“it's not that I don't suffer, it's that I know the unimportance of suffering, I know that pain is to be fought and thrown aside, not to be accepted as part of one's soul and as a permanent scar across one's view of existence.”

― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

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