“Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.”

― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

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“It was as if she had been made afresh, out of new elements, and must perforce be permitted to live her own life, and be a law unto herself, without her eccentricities being reckoned to her for a crime.”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness he saw the dwindling figure of a man to whom nothing was ever to happen.”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

“Yes, we inevitably turn to God; for this religious sentiment is of its nature so pure, so delightful to the soul that experiences it, that it makes up to us for all our other losses.”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“The world in books seemed so much more alive to me than anything outside. I could see things I’d never seen before. Books and music were my best friends. I had a couple of good friends at school, but never met anyone I could really speak my...”

― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

“Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves therefore are its only safe depositories.”

― Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia

“All the old history was written for the amusement of the ruling classes. The lower classes couldn't read, and their rulers didn't care about remembering what happened to them.”

― Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book

“The affluence of the rich excites the indignation of the poor, who are often both driven by want, and prompted by envy to invade his possessions.”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

“I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked on to the stage he was fully born.”

― Charlie Chaplin, My Autobiography

“Do any men grow up or do they only come of age?”

― Stephen King, The Gunslinger

“Human reason, in one sphere of its cognition, is called upon to consider questions, which it cannot decline, as they are presented by its own nature, but which it cannot answer, as they transcend every faculty of the mind.”

― Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

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