“the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile”

― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

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“Religions are often the state-protected nurseries of pseudoscience”

― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World

“Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter: only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you—that would be the real betrayal.”

― George Orwell, 1984

“correct understanding of a matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter are not mutually exclusive.”

― Franz Kafka, The Trial

“Am I alive and a reality, or am I but a dream?”

― Edgar Rice Burroughs, Return of Tarzan

“If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“It didn't pay to trust another human being. Humans didn't have it, whatever it took.”

― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

“What was the future? The future was a solid wall, not promising, not threatening — all bunk. No guarantees of anything, not even the guarantee that life isn’t one big joke.”

― Bob Dylan, Chronicles

“The most profound sentence ever written, Temple said with enthusiasm, is the sentence at the end of the zoology. Reproduction is the beginning of death.”

― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise any one who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking...”

― William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

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