“When a mystery is too overpowering, one dare not disobey.”

― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

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“Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may properly be charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it.”

― Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas

“It was agony to touch a person marked by something so good.”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

“People want nothing but mirrors around them. To reflect them while they're reflecting too.”

― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“I grew, day by day, more moody, more irritable, more regardless of the feelings of others. I suffered myself to use intemperate language to my wife. At length, I even offered her personal violence.”

― Edgar Allan Poe, The Black Cat

“For instance, men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the causes by which they are conditioned.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

“Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“His very existence was improbable, inexplicable, and altogether bewildering. He was an insoluble problem. It was inconceivable how he had existed, how he had succeeded in getting so far, how he had managed to remain—why he did not instantly...”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“The smell of her hair, the taste of her mouth, the feeling of her skin seemed to have got inside him, or into the air all round him. She had become a physical necessity, something that he not only wanted but felt that he had a right to.”

― George Orwell, 1984

“Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison, a more illustrious abode; every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Compensation

“They were like two enemies in love with one another.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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