“any one who's worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, with extravagant enthusiasm.”

― Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room

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“But feelings can't be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem. I long to ride a bike, dance, whistle, look at the world, feel young and know that I'm free, and yet I can't let it show.”

― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“These flow'rs are like the pleasures of the world; this bloody man, the care on't.”

― William Shakespeare, Cymbeline

“Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.”

― John Maynard Keynes, The General Theory of Employment

“I have heard men talk of the blessings of freedom . . . but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.”

― Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

“And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers—shrivelled now, and brown and flat and brittle—to witness that even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of man.”

― H. G. Wells, The Time Machine

“Having said this, I still believe there are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end of the search for the ultimate laws of nature.”

― Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

“Some people turn sad awfully young . . . No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know,...”

― Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

“The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind.”

― Woodrow Wilson, A World League For Peace

“I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“But I can't help remembering that the world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.”

― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table

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