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“No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.”
― Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

“No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one’s existence--that which makes its truth, its meaning--its subtle and penetrating essence. It is impossible. We live, as we dream--alone.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”
― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession

“I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.”
― Victor Hugo

“A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski