“The best lack all conviction, . . . while the worst are full of passionate intensity.”

― Dan Simmons, The Fall of Hyperion

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“Them that die'll be the lucky ones.”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

“the pleasure isn’t in doing the thing; the pleasure is in planning it.”

― John Green, Paper Towns

“They show the pores in the face of life. The comfortable people want only wax moon faces, poreless, hairless, expressionless. We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of growing on good rain and black loam.”

― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“We have more strength than will; and it is often merely for an excuse we say things are impossible.”

― François de La Rochefoucauld, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

“Tyranny, as I was saying, is monarchy exercising the rule of a master over the political society; oligarchy is when men of property have the government in their hands; democracy, the opposite, when the indigent, and not the men of property, are...”

― Aristotle, Politics

“It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.”

― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“Call it not patience, Gaunt; it is despair:”

― William Shakespeare, Richard II

“People talk sometimes of bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.”

― James Joyce, Ulysses

“This notwithstanding, I will not undertake war, until I have first tried all the ways and means of peace: that I resolve upon.”

― François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel

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