“Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damn insane mistakes!”

― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

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“I felt what the duties of a creator towards his creature were, and that I ought to render him happy before I complained of his wickedness.”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“Marriage made people old and familiar, while still young.”

― Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles

“Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“In most parts of our country men work, not for themselves, not as partners in the old way in which they used to work, but generally as employees,—in a higher or lower grade,—of great corporations.”

― Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom

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

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“Because he believes in himself, he doesn't try to convince others. Because he is content with himself, he doesn't need others' approval. Because he accepts himself, the whole world accepts him.”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.”

― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

“Believe me, it is a divine thing to lend,—to owe, an heroic virtue.”

― François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel

“Rather do I fear to lose truth by this pretension to possess it already wholly.”

― William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

“You're a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

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