“Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

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“It was not my strength that wanted nursing, it was my imagination that wanted soothing.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“The world around me is dissolving, leaving here and there spots of time. The world is a cancer eating itself away… I am thinking that when the great silence descends upon all and everywhere music will at last triumph.”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

“History suggests only that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.”

― Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom

“I always want to know the things one shouldn't do . . . So as to choose”

― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

“We always find something, eh Didi, to give us the impression we exist?”

― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

“Your memory is a monster; you forget—it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you—and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!”

― John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

“All the little ones of our time are collectively the children of us adults of the time, and entitled to our general care.”

― Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

“Yet if there really is a complete unified theory, it would also presumably determine our actions. And so the theory itself would determine the outcome of our search for it! And why should it determine that we come to the right conclusions from...”

― Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

“All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But when the men have died in battle and honour, you have leave to be burned in the house, for the men will need it no more. But I am of the House of Eorl and not a...”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

“Besides this, one cannot by fair dealing, and without injury to others, satisfy the nobles, but you can satisfy the people, for their object is more righteous than that of the nobles, the latter wishing to oppress, while the former only desire...”

― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

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