“The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God”

― Stendhal, The Red and the Black

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“The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.”

― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“it is always better when the person who frightens us is also afraid of us.”

― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

“suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but—I hope—into a better shape.”

― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“I remember it was with extreme difficulty that I could bring my master to understand the meaning of the word opinion, or how a point could be disputable; because reason taught us to affirm or deny only where we are certain; and beyond our...”

― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels

“Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.”

― Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson

“Because you simply cannot draw these things out forever. At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid and it hurts, but then it's over and you're relieved.”

― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“Prayers are to men as dolls are to children. They are not without use and comfort, but it is not easy to take them very seriously.”

― Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

“Time travels in divers paces with divers persons. I'll tell you who Time ambles withal, who Time trots withal, who Time gallops withal, and who he stands still withal.”

― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

“Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.”

― John Maynard Keynes, The General Theory of Employment

“It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.”

― Helen Keller, The Story of My Life

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