“To himself every one is an immortal: he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.”

― Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

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“If the oppressor uses violence, the oppressed have no alternative but to respond violently. In our case it was simply a legitimate form of self-defense.”

― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

“A woman is shut up in a kitchen or a boudoir, and one is surprised her horizon is limited; her wings are cut, and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.”

― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

“Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.”

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

“one has a grudge against a man who carries off the prettiest girl in the town.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“the history of science . . . teaches that the most we can hope for is successive improvement in our understanding, learning from our mistakes, an asymptotic approach to the Universe, but with the proviso that absolute certainty will always elude us.”

― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World

“Through hyper-space, that unimaginable region that was neither space nor time, matter nor energy, something nor nothing, one could traverse the length of the Galaxy in the interval between two neighboring instants of time.”

― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters and yet others go ever flowing on.”

― Heraclitus, On Nature

“I wouldn't change you for the world. You're sweet the way you are. The things that'll make you fail I'll love always—the living in the past, the lazy days and nights you have, and all your carelessness and generosity.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Flappers and Philosophers

“Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting.”

― Mother Teresa, Where There Is Love

“Certain things they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.”

― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

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