“In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.”

― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

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“Alas, how easily things go wrong!A sigh too much, or a kiss too long,And there follows a mist and a weeping rain,And life is never the same again.”

― George MacDonald, Phantastes

“And he grew and grew strong as a boy must grow who does not know that he is learning any lessons, and who has nothing in the world to think of except things to eat.”

― Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book

“There are many foolish people in the world and when a man in a rather high position puts on no frills, slaps them on the back, and tells them he'll do anything in the world for them, they are very likely to think him clever.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

“do you find it more poetic when you don't quite know what it means? I thought it was only in revealed religion that a mistranslation improved the sense.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

“Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning; truth and beauty can't. And, of course, whenever the masses seized political power, then it was happiness rather than truth and beauty that mattered.”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“The eventual goal of science is to provide a single theory that describes the whole universe.”

― Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

“Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.”

― Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci

“Thou art a little soul bearing about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.”

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“When a man dreams his own dream, he is the sport of his dream; when Another gives it him, that Other is able to fulfil it.”

― George MacDonald, Lilith

“Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand.”

― James Joyce, Ulysses

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