“When a man really tells the truth, the first truth he tells is that he himself is a liar.”

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

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“Was it the infinite sadness of her eyes that drew him or the mirror of himself that he found in the gorgeous clarity of her mind?”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“Mama, the more I know of the world, the more am I convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.”

― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“Patriotism, on the other hand, is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and dignity, and increases his arrogance and conceit.”

― Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays

“Are you sure we can move freely in Space? Right and left we can go, backward and forward freely enough, and men always have done so. I admit we move freely in two dimensions. But how about up and down? Gravitation limits us there.”

― H. G. Wells, The Time Machine

“Thought he, it's a wicked world in all meridians; I'll die a pagan.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

“Learning would spoil the best nigger in the world. Now . . . if you teach that nigger (speaking of myself) how to read, there would be no keeping him. It would forever unfit him to be a slave.”

― Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

“In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved. Indeed, most of their vices are attempted short cuts to love.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“she loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It had the same significance for her as an elegant cane for the dandy a century ago. It differentiated her from others.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“What do men know about women's martyrdoms? We should go mad had we to endure the hundredth part of those daily pains which are meekly borne by many women.”

― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

“Since Alice had never received any religious instruction, and since she had led a blameless life, she never thought of her awful luck as being anything but accidents in a very busy place. Good for her.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Slapstick

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