“I didn't want to be anything anyhow. And I was certainly succeeding.”

― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

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“He visited the poor so long as he had any money; when he no longer had any, he visited the rich.”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.”

― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

“Early to bed and early to rise . . . makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes.”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

“There was some point in being afraid before, while one still had hope.”

― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

“Properly speaking, the unconscious is the real psychic ; its inner nature is just as unknown to us as the reality of the external world, and it is just as imperfectly reported to us through the data of consciousness as is the external world...”

― Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams

“Every one says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive, as we had during the war.”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“There is a romance about all who are abroad in the black hours, and with something of a thrill we try to guess their business.”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes

“our labour preserves us from three great evils—weariness, vice, and want.”

― Voltaire, Candide

“It was woman that taught me cruelty, and on woman therefore I have exercised it; but not upon such as thou.”

― Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

“Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter: only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you—that would be the real betrayal.”

― George Orwell, 1984

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