“The imagination must be given not wings but weights.”

― Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

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“correct understanding of a matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter are not mutually exclusive.”

― Franz Kafka, The Trial

“isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Letters of Two Brides

“would not one tiny crime be wiped out by thousands of good deeds?”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“Almost everyone can remember losing his or her virginity, and most writers can remember the first book he/she put down thinking: I can do better than this. Hell, I am doing better than this! What could be more encouraging to the struggling writer...”

― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them; for the temperate man desires as he ought to desire, and what he ought to desire, as stated in Ethic.”

― Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

“knowledge should lead to wisdom, and . . . if it doesn't, it's just a disgusting waste of time!”

― J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

“Within this wall of flesh There is a soul counts thee her creditor, and with advantage means to pay thy love; and, my good friend, thy voluntary oath lives in this bosom, dearly cherished.”

― William Shakespeare, King John

“The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.”

― Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays

“Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.”

― Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia

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