“I am so satiated with the great number of detestable books with which we are inundated that I am reduced to punting at faro.”

― Voltaire, Candide

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“Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen.”

― William Shakespeare, King Lear

“For instance, men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the causes by which they are conditioned.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

“‘What do you fear, lady?’ he asked. ‘A cage,’ she said. ‘To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire.’”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

“As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State 'What does it matter to me?' the State may be given up for lost.”

― Charles Dickens,

“Trying to control the future is like trying to take the master carpenter's place. When you handle the master carpenter's tools, chances are that you'll cut your hand.”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.”

― Henry Kissinger, White House Years

“Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.”

― Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

“it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags.”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

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