Daniel

“Nowadays people know the price of everything, and the value of nothing.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“It is a terrible thing to be happy! How pleased we are with it! How all-sufficient we think it! How, being in possession of the false aim of life, happiness, we forget the true aim, duty!”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“One question at any rate was answered. Never, for any reason on earth, could you wish for an increase of pain. Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes, no heroes, he thought over and over as he writhed on the floor, clutching uselessly at his disabled left arm.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance.”
― George Orwell, 1984