“An absolute monarchy is one in which the sovereign does as he pleases so long as he pleases the assassins.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

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“The theologian considers sin chiefly as an offense against God; and the moral philosopher, as something contrary to reason.”

― Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

“He was weary of living in a perpetual tepid honeymoon, without the temperature of passion yet with all its exactions.”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

“With a woman who does not love us, as with someone who has died, the knowledge that there is nothing left to hope for does not prevent us from going on waiting.”

― Marcel Proust, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

“We are thus presented with a new task which had no previous existence: the task, that is, of investigating the relations between the manifest content of dreams and the latent dream-thoughts, and of tracing out the processes by which the latter...”

― Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams

“Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.”

― George Orwell, 1984

“The problem for us was to move forward to a decisive victory, or our cause was lost.”

― Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

“The Grinch hated Christmas! The whole Christmas season! Now, please don't ask why. No one quite knows the reason. It could be his head wasn't screwed on just right. It could be, perhaps, that his shoes were too tight. But I think that the most...”

― Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

“The important point is that you and I should exist, and that we should be you and me. Let everything else get on as best it can. The best order of things, as I see it, is the one that includes me; to hell with the most perfect of worlds, if I'm...”

― Denis Diderot, Rameau's Nephew

“If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.”

― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“People give words power, so banning a word is futile, really.”

― JAY-Z, Decoded

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