“Glory and curiosity are the scourges of the soul; the last prompts us to thrust our noses into everything, the other forbids us to leave anything doubtful and undecided.”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

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“Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.”

― Jane Austen, Emma

“I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams . . .”

― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her, if she is pretty, and to some one else, if she is plain.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“When I'm dead, I'm going to forget everything–and I advise you to do the same.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle

“She was thrilling to a desire that urged her to go forward, to be in closer to that fire, to be squabbling with the dogs, and to be avoiding and dodging the stumbling feet of men.”

― Jack London, White Fang

“Unlimited exploitation of cheap labour-power is the sole foundation of their power to compete.”

― Karl Marx, Das Kapital

“He's truly valiant that can wisely suffer the worst that man can breathe, and make his wrongs his outsides, to wear them like his raiment, carelessly, and ne'er prefer his injuries to his heart, to bring it into danger.”

― William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens

“That's the reason they're called lessons . . . because they lessen from day to day.”

― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

“I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.”

― George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

“So early in life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.”

― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

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