“There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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“I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company.”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

“everything is dear if you don't want it.”

― James Joyce, Ulysses

“Hatred is like a long, dark shadow. . . . It is like a two-edged sword. When you cut the other person, you cut yourself.”

― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“Do I have to be reborn in this same body?”

― George R. R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“We want the will of the people, not the votes of the people; and to give a man a vote against his will is to make voting more valuable than the democracy it declares.”

― G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

“But, above all, it will confer an inestimable benefit on morality and religion, by showing that all the objections urged against them may be silenced for ever by the Socratic method, that is to say, by proving the ignorance of the objector.”

― Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

“But it is essential to every inquiry about duty that we keep before our eyes how far superior man is by nature to cattle and other beasts: they have no thought except for sensual pleasure and this they are impelled by every instinct to seek;”

― Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Duties

“Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means”

― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

“All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings.”

― H. G. Wells, The Invisible Man

“The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.”

― Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

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