“What's the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when the anthrax bombs are popping all around you?”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

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“Given a decent start any girl can beat a man nowadays.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them. And, in scientific inquiry, at any rate, it is to that one or two that we...”

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

“I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“The day when it will be possible for the woman to love in her strength and not in her weakness, not to escape from herself but to find herself, not out of resignation but to affirm herself, love will become for her as for man the source of life...”

― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

“Those who dance are considered insane by those who can't hear the music.”

― George Carlin, Napalm & Silly Putty

“No fear can stand up to hunger, no patience can wear it out, disgust simply does not exist where hunger is; and as to superstition, beliefs, and what you may call principles, they are less than chaff in a breeze.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than with the imagination being awake?”

― Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci

“The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.”

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

“A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.”

― Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

“He wanted the truth. Why was everybody so determined that he should not get it?”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

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