“And he that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.”

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

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“politeness is deception in pretty packaging.”

― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“And then, again, the more distinctly a man knows, the more intelligent he is, the more pain he has; the man who is gifted with genius suffers most of all.”

― Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation

“All the days of my appointed time will I wait till my change come.”

― George MacDonald, Lilith

“Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“As if by running we won't have to get on with our lives.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently,...”

― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

“this cult of the future is not only a weakness but a cowardice of the age.”

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

“When a man dreams his own dream, he is the sport of his dream; when Another gives it him, that Other is able to fulfil it.”

― George MacDonald, Lilith

“She had always been fond of history, and here was history in the stones of the street and the atoms of the sunshine.”

― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

“If you remember me, then I don't care if everybody else forgets.”

― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

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