“When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.”
― A Clockwork Orange
― A Clockwork Orange
“... the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.”
― Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
― Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
“My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Healthcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.”
― Wuthering Heights
― Wuthering Heights
“The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.”
― A Clockwork Orange
― A Clockwork Orange
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