“In truth, it is not want, but rather abundance, that creates avarice.”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

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“I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live”

― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud Incredibly Close

“Darwin has interested us in the history of Nature’s Technology, i.e., in the formation of the organs of plants and animals, which organs serve as instruments of production for sustaining life.”

― Karl Marx, Das Kapital

“I like to hurt people too. I can make the cruelest choice. The difference is, sometimes I don't, and you always do, and that makes you evil.”

― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

“In all failures, the beginning is certainly the half of the whole.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“Deep down here by the dark water lived old Gollum, a small slimy creature. I don't know where he came from, nor who or what he was. He was Gollum—as dark as darkness, except for two big round pale eyes in his thin face.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“People were stupid, sometimes. They thought the Library was a dangerous place because of all the magical books, which was true enough, but what made it really one of the most dangerous places there could ever be was the simple fact that it was a...”

― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

“The highest endeavour of the mind, and the highest virtue is to understand things by the third kind of knowledge.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

“You can't ever find a place that's nice and peaceful, because there isn't any. You may think there is, but once you get there, when you're not looking, somebody'll sneak up and write 'Fuck you' right under your nose. Try it sometime.”

― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“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

“And it was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity.”

― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

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