“Men will not look at things as they really are, but as they wish them to be—and are ruined.”

― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

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“Books, for me, used to be a way to escape. I now consider reading a good book a sacred indulgence, a chance to be any place I choose. It is my absolute favorite way to spend time.”

― Oprah Winfrey, What I Know For Sure

“Do you not know that there are souls constantly tormented?”

― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“Thou by thy dial's shady stealth mayst know Time's thievish progress to eternity.”

― William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Sonnets

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it.”

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

“No, not one shall be forgotten who was great in the world. But each was great in his own way, and each in proportion to the greatness of that which he loved. For he who loved himself became great by himself, and he who loved other men became...”

― Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

“Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.”

― Henry Kissinger, Diplomacy

“Since all is well, keep it so: wake not a sleeping wolf.”

― William Shakespeare, Henry IV

“The failure of global summits on the environment make it plain that our politics are subject to technology and finance.”

― Pope Francis, Laudato si'

“And Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.”

― Heraclitus, On Nature

“But we are strong, each in our purpose, and we are all more strong together.”

― Bram Stoker, Dracula

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