“You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.”

― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

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“It is when people do wrong things wilfully that they are the more likely to do them again.”

― George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin

“How comes it that a cripple does not offend us, but that a fool does? Because a cripple recognises that we walk straight, whereas a fool declares that it is we who are silly; if it were not so, we should feel pity and not anger.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“What does it matter where my body happens to be? . . . My mind goes on working all the same. In fact, the more head downwards I am, the more I keep inventing new things.”

― Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass

“My only love, sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late!”

― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.”

― Henry Kissinger, Diplomacy

“Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depths of your heart; confess to yourself whether you would have to die if you were forbidden to write.”

― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“the woman does not work because the man tells her to work and she obeys. On the contrary, the woman works because she has told the man to work and he hasn't obeyed.”

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

“The best books . . . are those that tell you what you know already.”

― George Orwell, 1984

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