“Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on the rock.”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

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“perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony.”

― G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

“For there is no art where there is no style, and no style where there is no unity, and unity is of the individual.”

― Oscar Wilde, Intentions

“Kids, she says. When they’re little, they believe everything you tell them about the world. As a mother, you’re the world almanac and the encyclopedia and the dictionary and the Bible, all rolled up together. But after they hit some magic...”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

“solitude can quickly destroy reason”

― Jules Verne, The Mysterious Island

“I think the knowledge came to him at last—only at the very last.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“Believe that God loves you as you cannot conceive; that He loves you with your sin, in your sin.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“things never had been, nor ever could be much better or much worse—hunger, hardship, and disappointment being . . . the unalterable law of life.”

― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, still, alone, more fragile, but with more vitality, more unsubstantial, more persistent, more faithful, the smell and taste...”

― Marcel Proust, Swann's Way

“Capital is dead labour, that, vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.”

― Karl Marx, Das Kapital

“If I stayed here, something inside me would be lost forever—something I couldn’t afford to lose. It was like a vague dream, a burning, unfulfilled desire. The kind of dream people have only when they’re seventeen.”

― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border

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