“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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“Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out of the window.”

― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

“A group of pagan ruffians and pirates had gained possession of an effective military and naval machine, but they faced a mass of formidable veterans whom they had to feed and manage, and for whom they must provide killings. Such men make plans,...”

― Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples

“let us seek the love of simple, ignorant people. Their ignorance is better than all our knowledge. Let us be silent, content in our little corner, meek and gentle like them. That is the wisdom of life.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt, that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”

― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

“Thus to persist in doing wrong extenuates not wrong, but makes it much more heavy.”

― William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida

“You can kill the body, Mr. Hands, but not the spirit;”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

“Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.”

― Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

“When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.”

― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds; let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own.”

― John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address

“To such an extent does passion manifest itself in us as a temporary and distinct character, which not only takes the place of our normal character but actually obliterates the signs by which that character has hitherto been discernible.”

― Marcel Proust, Swann's Way

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