“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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“Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“the observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every turn, in spite of our endeavours to elude or avoid it.”

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

“James Joyce seemed like the most arrogant man who ever lived, had both his eyes wide open and great faculty of speech, but what he say, I knew not what.”

― Bob Dylan, Chronicles

“No man could demand from him an account of his actions; God, if he believed in one—his conscience, if he had one—were the sole judges to whom he was answerable.”

― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea

“Mad are thy subjects all, and even the wisest heart Straight to folly will fall, at a touch of thy poisoned dart.”

― Sophocles, Antigone

“I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.”

― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

“Don't you consider it a stupidity characteristic of the human race that a man who has only one life should be willing to lose it for an idea?”

― André Malraux, Man's Fate

“Don't mind anything any one tells you about any one else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.”

― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

“The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.”

― Karl Marx, Das Kapital

“No, I'm romantic—a sentimental person thinks things will last—a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

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