“EGOTIST, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

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“It is part of the irony of life, that the strongest feelings of devoted gratitude of which human nature seems to be susceptible, are called forth in human beings towards those who, having the power entirely to crush their earthly existence,...”

― John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women

“He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”

― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“What freedom men and women could have, were they not constantly tricked and trapped and enslaved and tortured by their sexuality! The only drawback in that freedom is that without it one would not be a human. One would be a monster.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“The important thing about having lots of things to remember is that you’ve got to go somewhere afterward where you can remember them, you see? You’ve got to stop. You haven’t really been anywhere until you’ve got back home.”

― Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic

“Life could be wonderful if people'd leave you alone.”

― Charlie Chaplin, The Great Dictator

“That the sun will not rise to-morrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction than the affirmation, that it will rise.”

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

“That the king is not to be trusted without being looked after, or in other words, that a thirst for absolute power is the natural disease of monarchy.”

― Thomas Paine, Common Sense

“The more the world speeds up the more it seems necessary that we should learn to pick out of the past the things that we feel were important and beautiful then. One of these things was a quality of tranquillity in people, which you rarely meet today.”

― Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt

“I can't carry it for you, but I can carry you and it as well.”

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

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