“For Man to tell how human life began is hard; for who himself beginning knew desire with thee still longer to converse induced me.”

― John Milton, Paradise Lost

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“It ruined a story to have it all come out quickly. The good story lay in half-told things which must be filled in out of the hearer's own experience.”

― John Steinbeck, Tortilla Flat

“The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel”

― C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

“You can't ever find a place that's nice and peaceful, because there isn't any. You may think there is, but once you get there, when you're not looking, somebody'll sneak up and write 'Fuck you' right under your nose. Try it sometime.”

― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“Thou art a little soul bearing about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.”

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“What can you do . . . against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?”

― George Orwell, 1984

“All that destroys social unity is worthless; all institutions that set man in contradiction to himself are worthless.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

“In so wild and so beautiful a region was spent my first day, every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.”

― John Muir, The Mountains of California

“it is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works, and that such curses as that of Aporat's are really deadly.”

― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“But his soul was mad. Being alone in the wilderness, it had looked within itself, and, by heavens! I tell you, it had gone mad.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them—especially as against the rivals, other children, and first and foremost as against their brothers and sisters.”

― Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams

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