“Up ahead they’s a thousan’ lives we might live, but when it comes, it’ll on’y be one.”

― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

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“They seemed so like the rats he had seen outside.”

― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

“I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“I had hoped that the white moderate would understand that law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and that when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.”

― Martin Luther King, Jr.

“The smell of her hair, the taste of her mouth, the feeling of her skin seemed to have got inside him, or into the air all round him. She had become a physical necessity, something that he not only wanted but felt that he had a right to.”

― George Orwell, 1984

“Even a soul submerged in sleep is hard at work, and helps make something of the world.”

― Heraclitus, On Nature

“But the greater the difficulty, the greater the glory; for no occasion arises that can excuse a man for being guilty of injustice.”

― Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Duties

“Perhaps most people in the world aren't trying to be free, Kafka. They just think they are. It's all an illusion. If they really were set free, most people would be in a real bind. You'd better remember that. People actually prefer not being free.”

― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to...”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“New York's terrible when somebody laughs on the street very late at night. You can hear it for miles. It makes you feel so lonesome and depressed.”

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

“There are a lot of things we don't want to know about the people we love.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

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