“Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.”

― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

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“Men will not look at things as they really are, but as they wish them to be—and are ruined.”

― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“I just hope that one day—preferably when we're both blind drunk—we can talk about it.”

― J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

“Eyes and ears are bad witnesses to men having barbarian souls.”

― Heraclitus, On Nature

“Certain things they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.”

― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“Eyes are more accurate witnesses than ears.”

― Heraclitus, On Nature

“The truth may be puzzling or counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held beliefs. Experiment is how we get a handle on it.”

― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World

“He did not care upon what terms he satisfied his passion. He had even had a mad, melodramatic idea to drug her.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

“Do I dareDisturb the universe?In a minute there is timeFor decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.”

― T. S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

“I wanted to ask a thousand questions, but there was no one to ask. Besides I knew that people only told lies to children—lies about everything from soup to Santa Claus.”

― Marilyn Monroe, My Story

“The idea that there is no equality, even when you are dead! Just look at Père-Lachaise! The great, those who are rich, are up above, in the acacia alley, which is paved. They can reach it in a carriage. The little people, the poor, the unhappy,...”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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