“And you cannot move at all in Time, you cannot get away from the present moment.”

― H. G. Wells, The Time Machine

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“The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no third-class carriages, and...”

― George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

“In short, the way to avoid misunderstanding is for everybody to lie and slander and insinuate and pretend as hard as they can. That is what obeying your mother comes to.”

― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

“Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, few doubtingly of scepticism.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“I learned a little of beauty—enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“you're way off when you start railing at things and people instead of at yourself.”

― J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

“That it is no great matter, whether I remove his scruple or no: where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.”

― John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

“Even that has its reason; it is often better to be in chains than to be free.”

― Franz Kafka, The Trial

“At the present time, an oppressed member of the community has therefore only one method of self-defence—he may appeal to the whole nation; and if the whole nation is deaf to his complaint, he may appeal to mankind: the only means he has of...”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound for ever to the circles of the world, and beyond them is more than memory.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

“Let us be clear at the outset that the liberty of individuals to carry on their business should not be abrogated unless the larger interests of the many are concerned.”

― Franklin D. Roosevelt, Looking Forward

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