“Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.”

― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

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“They said they would rather be outlaws a year in Sherwood Forest than President of the United States forever.”

― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

“Are you in earnest resolved never to barter your liberty for the lordly servitude of a court, but to live free, fearless, and independent?”

― Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments

“What’s the most offensive is not their lying—one can always forgive lying—lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth—what is offensive is that they lie and worship their own lying...”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“I’m not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.”

― John Green, Paper Towns

“He didn’t know what he was going to — but it had to be better than what he was leaving behind.”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

“He was part of my dream, of course—but then I was part of his dream, too!”

― Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass

“Mad are thy subjects all, and even the wisest heart Straight to folly will fall, at a touch of thy poisoned dart.”

― Sophocles, Antigone

“Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“Throughout my business life I have always tried to keep on top of costs and protect the downside risk as much as possible. The Virgin Group has survived only because we have always kept tight control of our cash. But, likewise, I also know that...”

― Richard Branson, Losing My Virginity

“But in this retirement of the mind from the senses, it often retains a yet more loose and incoherent manner of thinking, which we call dreaming.”

― John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

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