“Contrariwise . . . if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.”

― Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass

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“Close your mouth, block off your senses, blunt your sharpness, untie your knots, soften your glare, settle your dust. This is the primal identity.”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“And my father! —oh, my father! evil is it with his daughter, when his grey hairs are not remembered because of the golden locks of youth!”

― Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

“gold and silver . . . are . . . the direct incarnation of all human labour. Hence the magic of money.”

― Karl Marx, Das Kapital

“He values my understanding and talents more highly than my heart, but I am proud of the latter only.”

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

“Centuries ago Calvinist faith turned the cathedral into a hangar, its only function being to keep the prayers of the faithful safe from rain and snow.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should, with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause, transform ourselves into beasts!”

― William Shakespeare, Othello

“It may be normal, darling; but I'd rather be natural.”

― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's

“Do what you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic in the heart of man, love.”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Every star may be a sun to someone.”

― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“You can trust us to stick to you through thick and thin–to the bitter end. And you can trust us to keep any secret of yours–closer than you keep it yourself. But you cannot trust us to let you face trouble alone, and go off without a word. We...”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

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