“The visitor from outer space made a serious study of Christianity, to leam, if he could, why Christians found it so easy to be cruel.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

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“Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.”

― Nikola Tesla, The Problem of Increasing Human Energy

“I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own hand.”

― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“This je ne sais quoi, so small an object that we cannot recognise it, agitates a whole country, princes, armies, the entire world. Cleopatra's nose: had it been shorter, the whole aspect of the world would have been altered.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“Men were indeed more foolish and more cruel than the beasts of the jungle! How fortunate was he who lived in the peace and security of the great forest!”

― Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes

“Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.”

― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“reading had changed forever the course of my life.”

― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“The penalty is death: yet hope of gain Hath lured men to their ruin oftentimes.”

― Sophocles, Antigone

“We know little, but that we must trust in what is difficult is a certainty that will never abandon us; it is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be one more reason for us to do it.”

― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

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