“I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

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“To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“I am not a tool for their use. I am not a servant of their needs. I am not a bandage for their wounds. I am not a sacrifice on their altars. I am a man.”

― Ayn Rand, Anthem

“The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

“I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, Who art as black as hell, as dark as night.”

― William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Sonnets

“I am. I am, I exist, I think, therefore I am; I am because I think, why do I think? I don’t want to think any more, I am because I think that I don’t want to be, I think that I... because... ugh!”

― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

“See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.”

― Galileo Galilei, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems

“The most profound sentence ever written, Temple said with enthusiasm, is the sentence at the end of the zoology. Reproduction is the beginning of death.”

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

“This seemed simple as running water; but simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.”

― Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

“Such is the influence of custom, that, where it is strongest, it not only covers our natural ignorance, but even conceals itself, and seems not to take place, merely because it is found in the highest degree.”

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

“Whatever any one does or says, I must be emerald and keep my colour.”

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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