“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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“Now in matters of action the reason directs all things in view of the end: wherefore the higher the end which attaches to sins in human acts, the graver the sin.”

― Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Thinking is common to all.”

― Heraclitus, On Nature

“A woman's standard of truthfulness was tacitly held to be lower: she was the subject creature, and versed in the arts of the enslaved.”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

“So close to the powers of evil she must have lived that she still breathed more freely in their air.”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

“I had never spoken to her, except for a few casual words, and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.”

― James Joyce, Dubliners

“One day, is that not enough for you, one day he went dumb, one day I went blind, one day we'll go deaf, one day we were born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second, is that not enough for you?”

― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

“Presently a vagrant poodle dog came idling along, sad at heart, lazy with the summer softness and the quiet, weary of captivity, sighing for change.”

― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

“The more men have to lose, the less willing are they to venture.”

― Thomas Paine, Common Sense

“If you’re young and talented, it’s like you have wings.”

― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

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