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

― James Joyce, Ulysses

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“The rarest offerings of the purest loves are but a self-indulgence, and no generosity at all.”

― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

“Life could be wonderful if people'd leave you alone.”

― Charlie Chaplin, The Great Dictator

“Mend your speech a little, Lest you may mar your fortunes.”

― William Shakespeare, King Lear

“That a particular molecular motion does give rise to a state of consciousness is experimentally certain; but the how and why of the process are just as inexplicable as in the case of the communication of kinetic energy by impact.”

― Thomas Henry Huxley, The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century

“My dear Watson, you were born to be a man of action. Your instinct is always to do something energetic.”

― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles

“So cowards fight when they can fly no further; so doves do peck the falcon's piercing talons; so desperate thieves, all hopeless of their lives, breathe out invectives 'gainst the officers.”

― William Shakespeare, Henry VI

“Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death.”

― Albert Camus, The Fall

“It’s so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.”

― John Green, Paper Towns

“My armour is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws spears, the shock of my tail a thunderbolt, my wings a hurricane, and my breath death!”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“I felt that 15,000 men on the 8th would be more effective than 50,000 a month later.”

― Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

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