“He didn’t know what he was going to — but it had to be better than what he was leaving behind.”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

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“WHY can't fellows be allowed to do what they like WHEN they like and AS they like, instead of other fellows sitting on banks and watching them all the time and making remarks and poetry and things about them?”

― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

“Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can't consume much if you sit still and read books.”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“Perfume is the soul of the flower, and sea-flowers have no soul.”

― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea

“The only immediate utility of all sciences, is to teach us, how to control and regulate future events by their causes.”

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

“She had no mercy. He looked at her neck and thought how he would like to jab it with the knife he had for his muffin. He knew enough anatomy to make pretty certain of getting the carotid artery. And at the same time he wanted to cover her pale,...”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

“Yet, with a pleasing sorcery, could charm pain for a while or anguish, and excite fallacious hope, or arm th' obdured breast with stubborn patience as with triple steel.”

― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“Only the children know what they are looking for . . . They waste their time over a rag doll and it becomes very important to them; and if anybody takes it away from them, they cry.”

― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“Is it so far from madness to wisdom?”

― George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“In all cases positive palaeontological evidence may be implicitly trusted; negative evidence is worthless, as experience has so often shown.”

― Charles Darwin, On The Origin of Species

“We have no need for genius—genius is dead. We have need for strong hands, for spirits who are willing to give up the ghost and put on flesh…”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

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