“History . . . is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.”

― James Joyce, Ulysses

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“Such is life. It is no cleaner than a kitchen; it reeks like a kitchen; and if you mean to cook your dinner, you must expect to soil your hands; the real art is in getting them clean again, and therein lies the whole morality of our epoch.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Father Goriot

“I imagined that they would be disgusted, until, by my gentle demeanour and conciliating words, I should first win their favour and afterwards their love.”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“If the absolutely pure, uncalculating, unpractical spirit of adventure had ever ruled a human being, it ruled this bepatched youth. I almost envied him the possession of this modest and clear flame.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.”

― Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

“I should like to know what well-constituted mind, merely because it is transitory, dislikes roast beef?”

― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.”

― Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography

“They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.”

― William Shakespeare, Richard II

“The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“if the earlier forms of society are natural, so is the state, for it is the end of them, and the nature of a thing is its end.”

― Aristotle, Politics

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