“We are unjust towards these great men who attempt the future, when they fail.”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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“History has informed us that bodies of men, as well as individuals, are susceptible of the spirit of tyranny.”

― Thomas Jefferson, A Summary View of the Rights of British America

“And the upshot of this modern attitude is really this: that men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back.”

― G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

“Boredom is essentially a thwarted desire for events, not necessarily pleasant ones, but just occurrences such as will enable the victim of ennui to know one day from another. The opposite of boredom, in a word, is not pleasure, but excitement.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

“The religion we have is our all-important instrument towards that end. With it we have brought the Four Kingdoms under our control, even at the moment when they would have crushed us. It is the most potent device known with which to control men...”

― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“Not that length and weight alone indicate excellence; many epic tales are pretty much epic crap—just ask my critics, who will moan about entire Canadian forests massacred in order to print my drivel.”

― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough—as most wrong theories are!”

― H. G. Wells, The Time Machine

“Love is madness, and lust is poison.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“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

“What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, a superfluous, labor of verification.”

― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“This was the alpenglow, to me one of the most impressive of all the terrestrial manifestations of God. At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed and waiting like devout...”

― John Muir, The Mountains of California

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