“I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

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“But there is one thing which these so clear, these so venerable teachings do not contain: they do not contain the mystery of what the exalted one has experienced for himself, he alone among hundreds of thousands.”

― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“Certain things they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.”

― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“Some men, under the pressure of incarceration, showed true mettle, while others revealed themselves as less than what they had appeared to be.”

― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

“Though it be honest, it is never good to bring bad news: give to a gracious message an host of tongues; but let ill tidings tell themselves when they be felt.”

― William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

“Time is more important to me than distance.”

― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants.”

― H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds

“We cannot play innocents abroad in a world that's not innocent; nor can we be passive when freedom is under siege.”

― Ronald Reagan, State of the Union Address

“Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.”

― Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

“in the long run . . . success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think of it.”

― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“The more conscious I was of goodness and of all that was 'sublime and beautiful,' the more deeply I sank into my mire and the more ready I was to sink in it altogether.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground

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