“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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“Immediate are the acts of God, more swift than time or motion, but to human ears cannot without process of speech be told, so told as earthly notion can receive.”

― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“Sometimes it is easier to see clearly into the liar than into the man who tells the truth. Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.”

― Albert Camus, The Fall

“Learning would spoil the best nigger in the world. Now . . . if you teach that nigger (speaking of myself) how to read, there would be no keeping him. It would forever unfit him to be a slave.”

― Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

“The best thing for being sad . . . is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails.”

― T. H. White, The Once and Future King

“So do flux and reflux—the rhythm of change—alternate and persist in everything under the sky.”

― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

“How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of nature!”

― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of the Four

“The free man, who lives among the ignorant, strives, as far as he can, to avoid receiving favours from them.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

“Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against...”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“I am. I am, I exist, I think, therefore I am; I am because I think, why do I think? I don’t want to think any more, I am because I think that I don’t want to be, I think that I... because... ugh!”

― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

“So foul and fair a day I have not seen.”

― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

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