“Even extreme grief may ultimately vent itself in violence—but more generally takes the form of apathy...”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

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“I am going to take this bucket of water and pour it on the flames of hell, and then I am going to use this torch to burn down the gates of paradise so that people will not love God for want of heaven or fear of hell, but because He is God.”

― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“It is vain to recount further the catalogue of miseries. In earlier ages such horrors remain unknown because unrecorded. Just enough flickering light plays upon this infernal scene to give us the sense of its utter desolation and hopeless...”

― Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples

“If nuclear power makes them dangerous, a sincere friendship through trade will be many times better than an insecure overlordship, based on the hated supremacy of a foreign spiritual power, which, once it weakens ever so slightly, can only fall...”

― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity. God keep me from ever completing anything.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

“All the world's a stage,And all the men and women merely players:They have their exits and their entrances;And one man in his time plays many parts,His acts being seven ages.”

― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

“No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.”

― Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes

“Were she better or you sicker, then the stars would not be so terribly crossed, but it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he had Cassius note, 'The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in...”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“A grain in the balance may determine which individuals shall live and which shall die—which variety or species shall increase in number, and which shall decrease, or finally become extinct.”

― Charles Darwin, On The Origin of Species

“I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only...”

― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“I felt my lungs inflate with the inrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, 'This is what it is to be happy.'”

― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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