“if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”

― George Orwell, Politics and the English Language

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“a belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.”

― Joseph Conrad, Under Western Eyes

“Thus its life swings like a pendulum backwards and forwards between pain and ennui.”

― Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation

“We know little, but that we must trust in what is difficult is a certainty that will never abandon us; it is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be one more reason for us to do it.”

― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“you guys are going to have to come up with a lot of wonderful new lies, or people just aren't going to want to go on living.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay.”

― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table

“It is such a secret place, the land of tears.”

― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“Not that length and weight alone indicate excellence; many epic tales are pretty much epic crap—just ask my critics, who will moan about entire Canadian forests massacred in order to print my drivel.”

― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Our people are good people; our people are kind people. Pray God some day kind people won’t all be poor.”

― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“Silence is not always tact and it is tact that is golden, not silence.”

― Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

“Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.”

― Aristotle, Politics

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