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

― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

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“I am going to take this bucket of water and pour it on the flames of hell, and then I am going to use this torch to burn down the gates of paradise so that people will not love God for want of heaven or fear of hell, but because He is God.”

― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“Well, thus we play the fools with the time, and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us.”

― William Shakespeare, Henry IV

“Why us for that matter? Why anything ? Because this moment simply is.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“His beauty shall in these black lines be seen, and they shall live, and he in them still green.”

― William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Sonnets

“The doctrine of interest rightly understood is not, then, new, but amongst the Americans of our time it finds universal acceptance: it has become popular there; you may trace it at the bottom of all their actions, you will remark it in all they say.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“There is no time so miserable but a man may be true.”

― William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens

“I only knew what was in my mind, and I wished to express it clearly, so that there could be no mistaking it.”

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

“He doesn’t know which is worse, a past he can’t regain or a present that will destroy him if he looks at it too clearly. Then there’s the future. Sheer vertigo.”

― Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

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