“I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little the more, as I grow older”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

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“Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.”

― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“But as in landlessness alone resides highest truth, shoreless, indefinite as God—so, better is it to perish in that howling infinite, than be ingloriously dashed upon the lee, even if that were safety!”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

“When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there's no need at all to understand what's happening, because everything happens within you, and even men can turn themselves into the wind.”

― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood. Write with blood, and thou wilt find that blood is spirit.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“Don't be afraid! We won't make an author of you, while there's an honest trade to be learnt, or brick-making to turn to.”

― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

“Success in warfare is gained by carefully accommodating ourselves to the enemy's purpose.”

― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“The fault I find with our journalism is that it forces us to take an interest in some fresh triviality or other every day, whereas only three or four books in a lifetime give us anything that is of real importance.”

― Marcel Proust, Swann's Way

“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”

― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.”

― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State 'What does it matter to me?' the State may be given up for lost.”

― Charles Dickens,

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