“It is very fortunate that kings cannot err. Hence their contradictions never perplex us.”

― Victor Hugo, The Man Who Laughs

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“Had I but serv'd my God with half the zeal I serv'd my king, he would not in mine age have left me naked to mine enemies.”

― William Shakespeare, Henry VIII

“Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed. It is the unsacrificed self that we must respect in man above all.”

― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!”

― Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven

“Though our brother is upon the rack, as long as we ourselves are at our ease, our senses will never inform us of what he suffers. They never did, and never can, carry us beyond our own person, and it is by the imagination only that we can form...”

― Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments

“In love there are no friends. Everywhere where there is a pretty woman hostility is open.”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“I don't know, sometimes I think I've got this hard kernel in my heart, and nothing much can get inside it. I doubt if I can really love anybody.”

― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. This only looks like love.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“It is, I am afraid, true that frequently various religious groups endeavor to exert pressures and control over different legislative and educational fields. It is the job of all of us to be alert for such infringement of our prerogatives and...”

― Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt

“People. You must love people. Men are admirable. I want to vomit—and suddenly, there it is: the Nausea.”

― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

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