“Man selects only for his own good; Nature only for that of the being which she tends.”

― Charles Darwin, On The Origin of Species

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“as he stood there, love came to Big Joe Portagee. It sang in his head; it roared through his body like a great freshet; it shook him as a tropical storm shakes a forest of palms.”

― John Steinbeck, Tortilla Flat

“To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.”

― James Joyce, Ulysses

“Ask for work. If they do not give you work, ask for bread. If they do not give you work or bread, then take bread.”

― Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays

“Even castles in the air can do with a fresh coat of paint.”

― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border

“The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is to hand over your whole self—all your wishes and precautions—to Christ. But it is far easier than what we are all trying to do instead. For what we are trying to do is to remain what we call...”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”

― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

“It is more likely . . . mankind have a little corrupted nature, for they were not born wolves, and they have become wolves; God has given them neither cannon of four-and-twenty pounders, nor bayonets”

― Voltaire, Candide

“my heart is set, as firmly as ever heart of man was set on woman. I have no thought, no view, no hope in life, beyond her; and if you oppose me in this great stake, you take my peace and happiness in your hands, and cast them to the wind.”

― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

“We’re both looking at the same moon, in the same world. We’re connected to reality by the same line. All I have to do is quietly draw it towards me.”

― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

“For books have a way of influencing each other. Fiction will be much the better for standing cheek by jowl with poetry and philosophy.”

― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

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