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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

“A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Welcome to the Monkey House

“To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists

“Something Vimes had learned as a young guard drifted up from memory. If you have to look along the shaft of an arrow from the wrong end, if a man has you entirely at his mercy, then hope like hell that man is an evil man. Because the evil like power, power over people, and they want to see you in fear. They want you to know you're going to die. So they'll talk. They'll gloat.

They'll watch you squirm. They'll put off the moment of murder like another man will put off a good cigar.

So hope like hell your captor is an evil man. A good man will kill you with hardly a word.”
― Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms

“If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!”
― John Waters

“And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on.”
― George Gordon Byron

“Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“Cogito ergo sum. (I think, therefore I am.)”
― René Descartes

“Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.”
― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

“Never memorize something that you can look up.”
― Albert Einstein

“The more I see, the less I know for sure.”
― John Lennon

“They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.”
― Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites