“Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

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“One felt that in her renunciation of life she had willingly abandoned those places in which she would at least have been able to see him whom she loved, for others where he had never trod.”

― Marcel Proust, Swann's Way

“If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Father Goriot

“Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons—that's philosophy.”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“I may not be a human, but I am a man”

― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

“But that's the price we have to pay for stability. You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. We've sacrificed the high art.”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“Wisdom . . . is the oneness of mind that guides and permeates all things.”

― Heraclitus, On Nature

“The excess of liberty, whether in States or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.”

― Plato, The Republic

“One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness...”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

“Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.”

― Mark Twain, Following the Equator

“Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can't get into it do that.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

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