“For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering?”

― Albert Camus, The Plague

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“Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the realm of words as it were, never in reality. All those books barely read, those friends barely loved, those cities barely visited, those women barely possessed!”

― Albert Camus, The Fall

“When one's head is gone one doesn't weep for one's hair!”

― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.”

― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

“Nothing is more necessary to the culture of the higher sciences, or of the more elevated departments of science, than meditation; and nothing is less suited to meditation than the structure of democratic society.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone.”

― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“From a political point of view, there is but a single principle; the sovereignty of man over himself. This sovereignty of myself over myself is called Liberty.”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“But his soul was mad. Being alone in the wilderness, it had looked within itself, and, by heavens! I tell you, it had gone mad.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“Coward dogs most spend their mouths when what they seem to threaten runs far before them.”

― William Shakespeare, Henry V

“Every thinking person fears nuclear war, and every technological state plans for it. Everyone knows it is madness, and every nation has an excuse.”

― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“Love is our response to our highest values—and can be nothing else.”

― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

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