“he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear.”

― Hunter S. Thompson, Hell's Angels

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“You don't want to ask after the health of anyone, if you're a funeral director. They think maybe you're scouting for business”

― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“It is perfectly monstrous . . . the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“All men are enemies. All animals are comrades.”

― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“I'd want it real. I'd take no pride in any hopeless longing. I wouldn't hold a stillborn aspiration. I'd want to have it, to make it, to live it.”

― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“I wished to be loved by another . . . But I desire no man’s pity.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

“A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.”

― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

“For the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief. Mad indeed would I be to expect it, in a case where my very senses reject their own evidence. Yet, mad am I not — and very surely do I...”

― Edgar Allan Poe, The Black Cat

“The doctrine of interest rightly understood is not, then, new, but amongst the Americans of our time it finds universal acceptance: it has become popular there; you may trace it at the bottom of all their actions, you will remark it in all they say.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“Every human virtue and every vice has been fashionable for a while and then unfashionable.”

― Denis Diderot, Jacques the Fatalist and his Master

“To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.”

― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

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