“He felt himself, and did not want to be any one else. All he wanted now was to be better than before.”

― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

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“Remember that I am thy creature; I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed.”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“His name is Marcus: he is four and a half and possesses that deep gravity and seriousness that only small children and mountain gorillas have ever been able to master.”

― Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys

“Human reason is by nature architectonic.”

― Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

“life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it.”

― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem—just to avoid violence.”

― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“The performance of duty, and not an indulgence in vapid ease and vapid pleasure, is all that makes life worth while.”

― Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography

“Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“Hot anger was bad. Ender’s anger was cold, and he could use it. Bonzo’s was hot, and so it used him.”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

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