“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

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“Why, because an author has more rights than ordinary people, as everybody knows. People will stand much more from him.”

― Albert Camus, The Plague

“You can exist without your soul, you know, as long as your brain and heart are still working. But you’ll have no sense of self anymore, no memory, no... anything. There’s no chance at all of recovery. You’ll just — exist. As an empty...”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

“I do not fear to be alone or to be spurned for another or to leave whatever I have to leave. And I am not afraid to make a mistake, even a great mistake, a lifelong mistake, and perhaps as long as eternity too.”

― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“Do what you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic in the heart of man, love.”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions—as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”

― George Orwell, 1984

“I call people rich when they're able to meet the requirements of their imagination.”

― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

“Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

“WHY can't fellows be allowed to do what they like WHEN they like and AS they like, instead of other fellows sitting on banks and watching them all the time and making remarks and poetry and things about them?”

― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

“Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain, shared with no one.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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