“Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?”

― William Shakespeare, Henry IV

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“We could not understand because we were too far and could not remember because we were travelling in the night of first ages, of those ages that are gone, leaving hardly a sign—and no memories.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life. I thought of their unfathomable distance, and the slow inevitable drift of their movements out of the unknown past into the unknown future.”

― H. G. Wells, The Time Machine

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt, that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”

― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

“If a country is governed with repression, the people are depressed and crafty.”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“Prayers are to men as dolls are to children. They are not without use and comfort, but it is not easy to take them very seriously.”

― Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

“great robbers always resemble honest folks. Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is to remain honest; otherwise they would be arrested off-hand. ”

― Jules Verne, Around the World in 80 Days

“I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“I know you. In wickedness the haughty man and the weakling meet. But they misunderstand one another.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.”

― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

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