“There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

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“Your time may come. Do not be too sad, Sam. You cannot be always torn in two. You will have to be one and whole, for many years. You have so much to enjoy and to be, and to do.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

“We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements . . . profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster.”

― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World

“A little tap at the window, as though some missile had struck it, followed by a plentiful, falling sound, as light, though, as if a shower of sand were being sprinkled from a window overhead; then the fall spread, took on an order, a rhythm,...”

― Marcel Proust, Swann's Way

“Success for us is the death of the intellect and of the imagination. We were never loyal to the successful. We serve them.”

― James Joyce, Ulysses

“Let my country die for me.”

― James Joyce, Ulysses

“Human life occurs only once, and the reason we cannot determine which of our decisions are good and which bad is that in a given situation we can make only one decision; we are not granted a second, third, or fourth life in which to compare...”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“All the little ones of our time are collectively the children of us adults of the time, and entitled to our general care.”

― Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

“He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear. But so long as he uttered it, in some obscure way the continuity was not broken. It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.”

― George Orwell, 1984

“The heart breaks when, after having been elated by flattering hopes, it sees all its illusions destroyed.”

― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“it's stupid to do work that machines could do just as well.”

― Boris Vian, Froth on the Daydream

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