“you mustn't believe in killing . . . You must do it as a necessity but you must not believe in it. If you believe in it the whole thing is wrong.”

― Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

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“When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in the hope that, in the course of a few years, we shall have condensed into our encyclopaedia the net value...”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Intellect

“Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility, or indifference, or sheer helplessness.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Father Goriot

“So I don't know about bores. Maybe you shouldn't feel too sorry if you see some swell girl getting married to them. They don't hurt anybody, most of them, and maybe they're secretly all terrific whistlers or something.”

― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black.”

― Henry Ford, My Life and Work

“Society is so general and so mixed there is no place left for retirement, and even in the home we live in public.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

“The Law has a promise but it is a conditional promise, depending upon whether people fulfill the Law.”

― Martin Luther, Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians

“Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command me to disappear, and I disappear. You shall not see me if my presence is distasteful to you.”

― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I simply am not there.”

― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

“We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner! I can't think what anybody sees in them”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

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