“The effort for self-preservation is the first and only foundation of virtue.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

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“Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“the best way to manage some kinds of pain fill thoughts, is to dare them to do their worst; to let them lie and gnaw at your heart till they are tired; and you find you still have a residue of life they cannot kill.”

― George MacDonald, Phantastes

“Only her eyes seem to move. It's like they touch us, not with sight or sense, but like the stream from a hose touches you, the stream at the instant of impact as dissociated from the nozzle as though it had never been there.”

― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

“There is a world elsewhere.”

― William Shakespeare, Coriolanus

“Life is pain . . . Anybody that says different is selling something.”

― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

“Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

“When one's head is gone one doesn't weep for one's hair!”

― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“A human being is primarily a bag for putting food into”

― George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier

“When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.”

― Mark Twain, Following the Equator

“Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all; all shall die.”

― William Shakespeare, Henry IV

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