“Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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“In the beginning was the Word. Then came the fucking word processor. Then came the thought processor. Then came the death of literature. And so it goes.”

― Dan Simmons, Hyperion

“They experimented on the poor and if that worked they used the treatment on the rich. And if it didn't work, there would still be more poor left over to experiment upon.”

― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

“The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“To make oneself object, to make oneself passive, is very different from being a passive object: a woman in love is neither asleep nor a corpse; there is a surge in her that ceaselessly falls and rises: it is this surge that creates the spell that...”

― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

“there is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.”

― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.”

― George Orwell, 1984

“Where's the use of looking nice, when no one sees me but those cross midgets, and no one cares whether I'm pretty or not?”

― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“Readers are advised to remember that the devil is a liar.”

― C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”

― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

“most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages—a special odor of the knowledge and emotions that for ages have been calmly resting between the covers.”

― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

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