“These flow'rs are like the pleasures of the world; this bloody man, the care on't.”

― William Shakespeare, Cymbeline

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“the power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you can’t kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

“At any streetcorner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.”

― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

“Mend your speech a little, Lest you may mar your fortunes.”

― William Shakespeare, King Lear

“A poet’s mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.”

― JAY-Z, Decoded

“Much learning does not teach understanding, otherwise it would have taught Hesiod and Pythagoras, Xenophanes and Hecataeus.”

― Heraclitus, On Nature

“It is the easiest thing in the world for a man to look as if he had a great secret in him.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

“True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings; Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.”

― William Shakespeare, Richard III

“It may therefore be judged indecent in me to come forward on this occasion, but when I see a fellow creature about to perish through the cowardice of her pretended friends, I wish to be allowed to speak, that I may say what I know of her character.”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“For books have a way of influencing each other. Fiction will be much the better for standing cheek by jowl with poetry and philosophy.”

― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

“Ye shall only have enemies to be hated, but not enemies to be despised.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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