“We were Black Americans in West Africa, where for the first time in our lives the color of our skin was accepted as correct and normal.”

― Maya Angelou, All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes

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“One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness...”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.”

― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

“What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.”

― Jane Austen, Emma

“even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Alas, how easily things go wrong!A sigh too much, or a kiss too long,And there follows a mist and a weeping rain,And life is never the same again.”

― George MacDonald, Phantastes

“What is it that I’ll want from you? Not love: that would be too much to ask. Not forgiveness, which isn’t yours to bestow. Only a listener, perhaps; only someone who will see me.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“An education which does not cultivate the will, is an education that depraves the mind.”

― Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

“books were the emblems of a secret brotherhood.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“the man was clearly guilty. You could tell just by looking at him. Not, perhaps, guilty of anything specific. Just guilty in general terms.”

― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

“Self-loathing is not sorrow. Yet it is good, for it marks a step in the way home, and in the father's arms the prodigal forgets the self he abominates. Once with his father, he is to himself of no more account.”

― George MacDonald, Lilith

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