“For the egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

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“Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows.”

― Charles Darwin, On The Origin of Species

“The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.”

― Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples

“Marriage is the only actual bondage known to our law. There remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house.”

― John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women

“He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn’t need a word for that anymore than for...”

― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

“He was moving from an unreality that was frightening into a reality that was unreal because it was new.”

― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“We must keep our thought secret, and judge everything by it, while talking like the people.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“It also meant that whenever a body is not acted on by any force, it will keep on moving in a straight line at the same speed.”

― Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

“there were a lot of lovely books once, before we let them go.”

― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“It seemed like all the way to tomorrow and over it to the days beyond.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“It is human to lament, human to weep with them that weep, but it is greater to believe, more blessed to contemplate the believer.”

― Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

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