“This grove that was now so peaceful must then have rung with cries, I thought; and even with the thought I could believe I heard it ringing still.”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

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“Worse than all, you are candid, and it often happens that our happiness depends on certain social hypocrisies to which you will never stoop.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Letters of Two Brides

“And all the while one spirit uttered this, The other one did weep so, that, for pity, I swooned away as if I had been dying, And fell, even as a dead body falls.”

― Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy

“It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.”

― Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room

“To live is like to love—all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.”

― Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

“A conditioned mind is never a free mind.”

― Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do

“A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man under Socialism

“Dreams . . . are often most profound when they seem most crazy.”

― Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams

“right is more precious than peace”

― Henry Kissinger, Diplomacy

“There’s something perverse about women... they’re all masochists at heart.”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

“The interest of the dealers, however, in any particular branch of trade or manufactures, is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public.”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

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