“The happy and the powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

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“Then she fell back exhausted, for these transports of vague love wearied her more than great debauchery.”

― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“And nothing was interesting, nothing. The people were restrictive and careful, all alike. And I've got to live with these fuckers for the rest of my life, I thought.”

― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

“Long customs are not easily broken; he that attempts to change the course of his own life very often labours in vain, and how shall we do that for others which we are seldom able to do for ourselves?”

― Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas

“Lady, you know no rules of charity, which renders good for bad, blessings for curses.”

― William Shakespeare, Richard III

“It is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace. The agonies of remorse poison the luxury there is otherwise sometimes found in indulging the excess of grief.”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“Only free men can negotiate.”

― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

“It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.”

― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

“I stand here before you not as a prophet but as a humble servant of you, the people.”

― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

“One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

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