“I suppose a suicide who holds a pistol to his skull feels much the same wonder at what will come next as I felt then.”

― H. G. Wells, The Time Machine

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“What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us are wrapped up in parentheses.”

― John Irving, The Cider House Rules

“The monks used to say that he was more drawn to those who were more sinful, and the greater the sinner the more he loved him.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, Or else my heart, concealing it, will break;”

― William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew

“All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings.”

― H. G. Wells, The Invisible Man

“Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date.”

― George Orwell, 1984

“There is a moment—Oh, just before the first kiss, a whispered word—something that makes it worth while.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

“Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.”

― William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens

“Annihilation itself is no death to evil. Only good where evil was, is evil dead. An evil thing must live with its evil until it chooses to be good. That alone is the slaying of evil.”

― George MacDonald, Lilith

“We are thus presented with a new task which had no previous existence: the task, that is, of investigating the relations between the manifest content of dreams and the latent dream-thoughts, and of tracing out the processes by which the latter...”

― Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams

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