“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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“And he sang to them, now in the elven-tongue, now in the speech of the West, until their hearts, wounded with sweet words, overflowed, and their joy was like swords, and they passed in thought out to regions where pain and delight flow together...”

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

“He who judges of morality judges of honour; and he who judges of honour finds his law in opinion.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

“lots of time you don't know what interests you most till you start talking about something that doesn't interest you most.”

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

“The last clear definite function of man—muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need—this is man.”

― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“When I use a word . . . it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.”

― Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass

“the important thing was to love rather than to be loved”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

“The lunatic, the lover, and the poet are of imagination all compact”

― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

“Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.”

― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

“The best books . . . are those that tell you what you know already.”

― George Orwell, 1984

“Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into some still subtler form.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

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