“I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.”

― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

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“Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the realm of words as it were, never in reality. All those books barely read, those friends barely loved, those cities barely visited, those women barely possessed!”

― Albert Camus, The Fall

“There will always be a great difference between subduing a multitude and ruling a society.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

“Wonderfully, soon afterwards, insight came towards me in the form of the great Buddha's teachings, I felt the knowledge of the oneness of the world circling in me like my own blood.”

― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“Yet, with a pleasing sorcery, could charm pain for a while or anguish, and excite fallacious hope, or arm th' obdured breast with stubborn patience as with triple steel.”

― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn't have you by the throat.”

― Charles Bukowski, Factotum

“I was liked, and what a difference it made.”

― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“But where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.”

― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“For my own part, speaking personally, I have found the happiness of parenthood greater than any other that I have experienced.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

“The squirrel has not yet found the acorn that will grow into the oak that will be cut to form the cradle of the babe who will grow to slay me.”

― Neil Gaiman, Stardust

“The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already,...”

― Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God Is Within You

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