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“Strange about learning; the farther I go the more I see that I never knew even existed. A short while ago I foolishly thought I could learn everything - all the knowledge in the world. Now I hope only to be able to know of its existence, and to understand one grain of it. Is there time?”
― Flowers for Algernon
― Flowers for Algernon
“She was carrying an armful of Bibles for her class, and such was her view of life that events which produced heartache in others wrought beatific smiles upon her - an enviable result, although, in the opinion of Angel, it was obtained by a curiously unnatural sacrifice of humanity to mysticism.”
― Tess of the D’Urbervilles
― Tess of the D’Urbervilles
“Catch-22 says they have the right to do anything we can't stop them from doing.”
― Catch-22
― Catch-22
“You, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and black with sorrow; and then it is a fine thing, when you have had enough of that, to think of securing your pleasure in heaven by becoming converted!”
― Tess of the D’Urbervilles
― Tess of the D’Urbervilles
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