“the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities.”

― Aristotle, Poetics

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“To yield is grievous, but the obstinate soul That fights with Fate, is smitten grievously.”

― Sophocles, Antigone

“In all cases positive palaeontological evidence may be implicitly trusted; negative evidence is worthless, as experience has so often shown.”

― Charles Darwin, On The Origin of Species

“Whatever the Party holds to be the truth, is truth. It is impossible to see reality except by looking through the eyes of the Party.”

― George Orwell, 1984

“When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing.”

― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

“No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you...”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings.”

― H. G. Wells, The Invisible Man

“Self-loathing is not sorrow. Yet it is good, for it marks a step in the way home, and in the father's arms the prodigal forgets the self he abominates. Once with his father, he is to himself of no more account.”

― George MacDonald, Lilith

“Young men are fitter to invent, than to judge; fitter for execution, than for counsel; and fitter for new projects, than for settled business.”

― Francis Bacon, The Essays of Francis Bacon

“Everything you think you think because somebody promoted the ideas. Education—nothing but promotion.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano

“I wanted everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large.”

― Charlie Chaplin, My Autobiography

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