“correct understanding of a matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter are not mutually exclusive.”

― Franz Kafka, The Trial

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“For myself, I was bitterly opposed to the measure, and to this day regard the war, which resulted, as one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation.”

― Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

“The word is only a representation of the meaning; even at its best, writing almost always falls short of full meaning. Given that, why in God’s name would you want to make things worse by choosing a word which is only cousin to the one you...”

― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.”

― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

“For even as it is better to enlighten than merely to shine, so is it better to give to others the fruits of one's contemplation than merely to contemplate.”

― Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

“CYNIC, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

“I envy thee not thy faith, which is ever in thy mouth, but never in thy heart nor in thy practice.”

― Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

“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

“Chastisement for errors past Wisdom brings to age at last.”

― Sophocles, Antigone

“That death's unnatural that kills for loving.”

― William Shakespeare, Othello

“That’s the American Dream: to make your life into something you can sell.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

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