“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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“The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.”

― David Foster Wallace, This Is Water

“But I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason and intellect has intended us to forego their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.”

― Galileo Galilei, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina of Tuscany

“Men, of course, who have no resources in themselves for securing a good and happy life find every age burdensome. But those who look for all happiness from within can never think anything had which nature makes inevitable.”

― Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Old Age

“What we have not chosen we cannot consider either our merit or our failure.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“If you remember me, then I don't care if everybody else forgets.”

― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“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

“Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man's, I mean.”

― Mark Twain, Following the Equator

“The preservation of freedom is the protective reason for limiting and decentralizing governmental power.”

― Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom

“War is not won by victory.”

― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“It seems to me that yet we sleep, we dream.”

― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

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