“The first thing he saw in the small room was a large clock on the wall which already showed ten o'clock.”

― Franz Kafka, The Trial

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“I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished.”

― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

“But this priviledge, is allayed by another; and that is, by the priviledge of Absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man onely.”

― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

“To me the only death is monotony. I always say to Ellen: Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

“A good phrase, however, seems to me to have an independent existence. Yet I think it is likely that the best are made in solitude.”

― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

“No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you...”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“Make our faces vizards to our hearts, disguising what they are.”

― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

“But that's the price we have to pay for stability. You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. We've sacrificed the high art.”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“Sometimes the little times you don't think are anything while they're happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life.”

― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

“In place of the King’s arbitrary despotism they proposed, not the withering anarchy of feudal separatism, but a system of checks and balances which would accord the monarchy its necessary strength, but would prevent its perversion by a tyrant...”

― Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples

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