“If a country is governed with repression, the people are depressed and crafty.”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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“You noticed that her eyes were what I might call hard. She has never been sheltered. She has had to take care of herself, and a young girl can't take care of herself and keep her eyes soft and gentle like—like yours, for example.”

― Jack London, Martin Eden

“'Mongst all foes that a friend should be the worst!”

― William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona

“The time has come to pay renewed attention to reality and the limits it imposes; this in turn is the condition for a more sound and fruitful development of individuals and society.”

― Pope Francis, Laudato si'

“O, why should nature build so foul a den, unless the gods delight in tragedies?”

― William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus

“Contrariwise . . . if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.”

― Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass

“It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home. There may be black ingratitude in the thing, and the punishment may be retributive and well deserved; but that it is a miserable thing, I can testify.”

― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“Only fear can defeat life.”

― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants.”

― H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds

“Say you forgive me, Hareton, do. You can make me so happy by speaking that little word.”

― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“They’re a dark people with a gift for suffering way past their deserving. It’s said that without whisky to soak and soften the world, they’d kill themselves.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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