“There is an art in lighting a fire. We have the liberal arts and we have the useful arts. This is one of the useful arts.”

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

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“Obedience is not enough. Unless he is suffering, how can you be sure that he is obeying your will and not his own? Power is in inflicting pain and humiliation. Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new...”

― George Orwell, 1984

“What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?”

― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn’t need a word for that anymore than for...”

― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“It was the greatest sensation of existence: not to trust, but to know.”

― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Intellect

“Sentence first—verdict afterwards.”

― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

“If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

“Unhappiness does make people look stupid,—I am perfectly sure it does.”

― Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

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