“If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn’t. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.”

― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

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“For it is a true rule, that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque, or with an inward and secret contempt.”

― Francis Bacon, The Essays of Francis Bacon

“And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any...”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“I wanted to know, not for the love of knowledge but as a defence against the world's contempt for the ignorant.”

― Charlie Chaplin, My Autobiography

“The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe.”

― Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

“To merge his life in the common tide of other lives was harder for him than any fasting or prayer and it was his constant failure to do this to his own satisfaction which caused in his soul at last a sensation of spiritual dryness together with a...”

― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”

― Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

“with how many things are we upon the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries.”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“To place nothing—nothing—above the verdict of my own mind.”

― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“Yet if there really is a complete unified theory, it would also presumably determine our actions. And so the theory itself would determine the outcome of our search for it! And why should it determine that we come to the right conclusions from...”

― Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

“Every one says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive, as we had during the war.”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

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