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“To be afraid of death is only another form of thinking that one is wise when one is not; it is to think that one knows what one does not know. No one knows with regard to death wheather it is not really the greatest blessing that can happen to man; but people dread it as though they were certain it is the greatest evil." -The Last Days of Socrates”
― Plato

“I will not be broken or diminished or belittled by the choices of men around me.”
― A.C. Gaughen, Reign the Earth

“There was no way in hell she was going to move to the southern continent without all of her books.”
― Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin's Blade

“One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.”
― Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

“Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden & Civil Disobedience

“No sooner than we are conscious do we go searching for hands to remove our freedom.”
― Freya Berry, The Birdcage Library

“We had reduced nature to what we could extract from it; eternal growth was portrayed not as a fantasy but as the mightiest of pursuits.”
― Freya Berry, The Birdcage Library

“I’d heard of the wholesale massacre of species in that era”
― Freya Berry, The Birdcage Library

“The highest form of love is indistinguishable from liberty.”
― Freya Berry, The Birdcage Library

“The joy of books is that adults will not judge you for your rapacity; it is the only vice that may be entertained quite respectably in public.”
― Freya Berry, The Birdcage Library

“It is so easy to point at this world’s shadows”
― Freya Berry, The Birdcage Library

“Is this all we are? Is this the best of us? It is the fault of our race that no sooner have we marveled than we wish to possess; and the act of possession is the beginning of destruction.”
― Freya Berry, The Birdcage Library

“despise how our capitalist system conspires to give the notion that the world is stocked with a limitless supply of marvels”
― Freya Berry, The Birdcage Library

“Joy is nothing less than the recognition of beauty; it is the bridge to the sublime”
― Freya Berry, The Birdcage Library

“So little in adulthood gives rise to wonder: we scarcely know the sensation. But Aladdin in his cave or Ali Baba and his “open sesame” would know what I felt”
― Freya Berry, The Birdcage Library

“We’d built ourselves a cage and called it civilization.”
― Freya Berry, The Birdcage Library

“The sun,--the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man--burst upon the crowded city in clear and radiant glory. Through costly-coloured glass and paper-mended window, through cathedral dome and rotten crevice, it shed its equal ray.”
― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

“It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.”
― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

“Some people are nobody's enemies but their own, yer know.”
― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

“I know that she deserves the best and purest love the heart of man can offer," said Mrs. Maylie; "I know that the devotion and affection of her nature require no ordinary return, but one that shall be deep and lasting.”
― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

“The terror she feels is the terror of failing at being herself. Because if she fails at this she has lost everything: not only who she is”
― Lucy Steeds, The Artist and the Feast

“No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol