“It's hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness.”

― Carl Sagan, Contact

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“If her life were a simple rosary of hours, her life simple and strange as a bird's life, gay in the morning, restless all day, tired at sundown? Her heart simple and wilful as a bird's heart?”

― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“did it matter that she must inevitably cease completely; all this must go on without her; did she resent it; or did it not become consoling to believe that death ended absolutely?”

― Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway

“He was weary of living in a perpetual tepid honeymoon, without the temperature of passion yet with all its exactions.”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

“Make the advocacy of radical causes sufficiently remunerative, and the supply of advocates will be unlimited.”

― Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom

“If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would not a man rather have so much sympathy with the coming generation as to spare it the burden of existence? or at any rate not...”

― Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism

“But the foundation of justice is good faith, that is, steadfastness and truth in promises and agreements.”

― Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Duties

“God knows better than we what we need.”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“I had decided against religion a couple of years back. If it were true, it made fools out of people, or it drew fools. And if it weren't true, the fools were all the more foolish.”

― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

“Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you.”

― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal.”

― Oscar Wilde, Intentions

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