“Kurtz—it was ordered I should never betray him—it was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

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“In the empty expanses of space, the wandering traders need men like myself to care for the spiritual side of a life so given over to commerce and worldly pursuits.”

― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“What we needed were not words and promises but the steady accumulation of small realities.”

― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border

“One person with a belief is a social power equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.”

― John Stuart Mill, Considerations on Representative Government

“The Hindu religion is the only one of the world’s great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an immense, indeed an infinite, number of deaths and rebirths. It is the only religion in which the time scales correspond, no...”

― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“Everything is beautiful only so long as it does not concern us.”

― Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation

“I would say that today, dishonesty is the rule, and honesty the exception. It could be, statistically, that more people are honest than dishonest, but the few that really control things are not honest, and that tips the balance.”

― Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book

“We don't talk, we hold forth. We don't converse, we expound.”

― J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

“The fact is that love is of two kinds—one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Letters of Two Brides

“Travelling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

“Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.”

― William Shakespeare, Henry V

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