“the time has arrived when patience becomes a crime and mayhem appears garbed in the mantle of virtue.”

― Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes

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“But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, still, alone, more fragile, but with more vitality, more unsubstantial, more persistent, more faithful, the smell and taste...”

― Marcel Proust, Swann's Way

“Keep your eyes wide open. Only a coward closes his eyes. Closing your eyes and plugging up your ears won't make time stand still.”

― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“From now on the enemy is more clever than you. From now on the enemy is stronger than you. From now on you are always about to lose.”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

“It's true that a drinker numbs his senses, it's true that he briefly escapes and rests, but he'll return from the delusion, finds everything to be unchanged, has not become wiser, has gathered no enlightenment,—has not risen several steps.”

― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost between two spiral arms in the outskirts of a galaxy which is a member of a sparse cluster of galaxies, tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are...”

― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.”

― Mark Twain, Following the Equator

“any man who must say 'I am the king' is no true king at all.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.”

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

“With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?”

― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“Care is no cure, but rather corrosive, for things that are not to be remedied.”

― William Shakespeare, Henry VI

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