“There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.”

― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

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“a belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.”

― Joseph Conrad, Under Western Eyes

“He was sounding the deeps of his nature, and of the parts of his nature that were deeper than he, going back into the womb of Time.”

― Jack London, The Call of the Wild

“To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist.”

― Barack Obama, Inaugural Address

“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives.”

― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot

“What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life—to strengthen each other in all labour, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent...”

― George Eliot, Adam Bede

“It is, therefore, quite correct to say that the senses do not err, not because they always judge correctly, but because they do not judge at all.”

― Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

“A craven can be as brave as any man, when there is nothing to fear. And we all do our duty, when there is no cost to it. How easy it seems then, to walk the path of honor. Yet soon or late in every man’s life comes a day when it is not easy, a...”

― George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!”

― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“Above all, do not attempt to use science (I mean, the real sciences) as a defence against Christianity. They will positively encourage him to think about realities he can't touch and see.”

― C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

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