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“When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Jane Austen

“In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity”
― Sun-Tzu, A Arte da Guerra

“Repudiei sempre que me compreendessem. Ser compreendido é prostituir-se.”
― Bernardo Soares, Livro do Desassossego

“Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his consent. To assert that the son of a slave is born a slave is to assert that he is not born a man.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

“In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Now I no longer live in our clear, rational world; I live in the ancient nightmare world, the world of square roots of minus one.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.”
― William Ernest Henley, Echoes of Life and Death

“...most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“Pára, meu coração!
Não penses! Deixa o pensar na cabeça!
Ó meu Deus, meu Deus, meu Deus!
Hoje já não faço anos.
Duro.
Somam-se-me dias.
Serei velho quando o for.
Mais nada.
Raiva de não ter trazido o passado roubado na algibeira!...

O tempo em que festejavam o dia dos meus anos!...”
― Fernando Pessoa

“Transeuntes eternos por nós mesmos, não há paisagem senão o que somos. Nada possuímos, porque nem a nós possuímos. Nada temos porque nada somos. Que mãos estenderei para que universo? O universo não é meu: sou eu.”
― Fernando Pessoa (Bernardo Soares)

“Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Anti-Christ

“In my mind, I see a line. And over that line, I see green fields and lovely flowers and beautiful white women with their arms stretched out to me over that line, but I can’t seem to get there no-how. I can't seem to get over that line.”
― Harriet Tubman

“The game of science is, in principle, without end. He who decides one day that scientific statements do not call for any further test, and that they can be regarded as finally verified, retires from the game.”
― Karl R. Popper

“Theories are nets cast to catch what we call 'the world': to rationalize, to explain, and to master it. We endeavor to make the mesh ever finer and finer.”
― Karl Popper

“A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't even be worth reading.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“Here I saw, with my own eyes, that laughter was the most terrible weapon: you can kill anything with laughter - even murder itself.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin

“The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“I'd far rather be happy than right any day.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.”
― William Ernest Henley, Invictus

“Clever people are not credited with their follies: what a deprivation of human rights!”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

“The great epochs of life come when we gain the courage to re-christen our evil as what is best in us”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“De deus e da morte não se têm contado senão histórias, e esta não é mais que uma delas.”
― José Saramago

“À igreja nunca se lhe pediu que explicasse fosse o que fosse, a nossa outra especialidade, além da balística, tem sido neutralizar, pela fé, o espírito curioso.”
― José Saramago, Death with Interruptions