“It's difficult in times like these: ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise within us, only to be crushed by grim reality.”

― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

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“In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night... You—only you—will have stars that can laugh!”

― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“Mother died today. Or, maybe, yesterday; I can’t be sure. ”

― Albert Camus, The Stranger

“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

“After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.”

― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

“A state half slave and half free cannot exist.”

― Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

“I see that I have begun to understand too much. And it doesn't do for man to taste of the tree of knowledge of good and evil…”

― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“every heart has its secret sorrows, which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.”

― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hyperion

“Wherefore, security being the true design and end of government, it unanswerably follows, that whatever form thereof appears most likely to ensure it to us, with the least expense and greatest benefit, is preferable to all others.”

― Thomas Paine, Common Sense

“A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm.”

― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“I’m putting you in Dink Meeker’s toon. From now on, as far as you’re concerned, Dink Meeker is God.”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

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