“All the old history was written for the amusement of the ruling classes. The lower classes couldn't read, and their rulers didn't care about remembering what happened to them.”

― Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book

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“And it was for him, for this creature, for this man, who understood nothing, who felt nothing!”

― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“We have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”

― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding.”

― William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida

“Young ladies don't understand political economy, you know”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“Industry is the ceaseless piracy of the rich against the poor.”

― Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays

“Time weighs down on you like an old, ambiguous dream. You keep on moving, trying to slip through it. But even if you go to the ends of the earth, you won't be able to escape it. Still, you have to go there—to the edge of the world. There's...”

― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“Now most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is rather that we are too timid to endure responsibilities.”

― G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

“there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone.”

― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

“But who wants to be foretold the weather? It is bad enough when it comes, without our having the misery of knowing about it beforehand.”

― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

“As opposed to the maternal ideas, he had a certain virile idea of childhood on which he sought to mould his son, wishing him to be brought up hardily, like a Spartan, to give him a strong constitution.”

― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

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