“Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.”

― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

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“man was born to live either in a state of distracting inquietude or of lethargic disgust.”

― Voltaire, Candide

“Men like women, certainly their wives, to be quite as fair as they are; and women, I am afraid, are not always quite as fair as they should be.”

― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“But America is too great for small dreams.”

― Ronald Reagan, State of the Union Address

“When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. In the realm of kitsch, the dictatorship of the heart reigns supreme.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“She was thrilling to a desire that urged her to go forward, to be in closer to that fire, to be squabbling with the dogs, and to be avoiding and dodging the stumbling feet of men.”

― Jack London, White Fang

“The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides. The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural...”

― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea

“The fact is that love is of two kinds—one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Letters of Two Brides

“The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration;— this may be called perfect virtue.”

― Confucius, Analects

“But the presence of Odette continued to sow in Swann's heart alternate seeds of love and suspicion.”

― Marcel Proust, Swann's Way

“God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.”

― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

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