“All that destroys social unity is worthless; all institutions that set man in contradiction to himself are worthless.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

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“Humans are caught—in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too—in a net of good and evil.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“The happy and the powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.”

― G. K. Chesterton, Heretics

“all it takes is a change of attitude: I'm not going to look for happiness anymore. From now on, I'm independent; I see life through my eyes and not through other people's. I'm going in search of the adventure of being alive.”

― Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello

“Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity and uplift, competing as they do in a marketplace. But we have a right to remember how...”

― Christopher Hitchens, God is Not Great

“Writing is seduction. Good talk is part of seduction. If not so, why do so many couples who start the evening at dinner wind up in bed?”

― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it.”

― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat

“Death was an attempt to communicate; people feeling the impossibility of reaching the centre which, mystically, evaded them; closeness drew apart; rapture faded, one was alone. There was an embrace in death.”

― Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway

“the ancestor of every action is a thought.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Spiritual Laws

“All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not the science of goodness.”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

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