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“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Do you hate people?”

“I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
― Charles Bukowski, Barfly

“You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

“And what's strange, what would be marvelous, is not that God should really exist; the marvel is that such an idea, the idea of the necessity of God, could enter the head of such a savage, vicious beast as man.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“Besides, isn't it confoundedly easy to think you're a great man if you aren't burdened with the slightest idea that Rembrandt, Beethoven, Dante or Napoleon ever lived?”
― Stefan Zweig, Chess Story

“Ο σκοπός δεν αγιάζει τα μέσα.Ο σκοπός και τα μέσα αγιάζονται απ'το αποτέλεσμα.”
― Γιάννης Καλπούζος, Σέρρα, η ψυχή του Πόντου

“for a woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the open sea”
― Honore de Balzac

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
― Albert Camus

“One man doesn't believe in god at all, while the other believes in him so thoroughly that he prays as he murders men!”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

“…everyone needs a somewhere, a place he can go. There comes a time, you see, inevitably there comes a time you have to have a somewhere you can go!”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“Invisible things are the only realities.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Loss of Breath

“Some people don't realize that a straight 'No' can be the kindest answer in the world.”
― Jonathan Coe, The Dwarves of Death

“Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”
― Winston Churchill

“I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many long months of struggle and of suffering. You ask, what is our policy? I can say: It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us; to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be;

In “Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat,” his first speech as Prime Minister to the House of Commons May 13, 1940 quoted by Jeffrey R. Holland in “However Long and Hard the Road” BYU Devotional 18 Jan 1983”
― Winston S. Churchill

“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
― C.S. Lewis

“You should not take old people who are already dead seriously. It does them injustice. We immortals do not like things to be taken seriously. We like joking. Seriousness, young man, is an accident of time. It consists, I don't mind telling you in confidence, in putting too high a value on time. I, too, once put too high a value on time. For that reason I wished to be a hundred years old. In eternity, however, there is no time, you see. Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.”
― Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf

“Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.”
― Herman Hesse

“Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.”
― Hermann Hesse

“I love you because you are not mine, because you are from the other side, from there where you invite me to jump and I cannot make the jump, because in the deepest moment of possession you are not in me, I cannot reach you, I cannot get beyond your body...”
― Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch

“Τέλος πάντων, κάτι πρέπει ν' αγαπάει κανείς σ' αυτό το κόσμο. Μπορείς να ζήσεις δίχως να σ' αγαπάνε, μα όχι δίχως ν' αγαπάς.”
― Κοσμάς Πολίτης, Στου Χατζηφράγκου

“triple evils of modernity: Nazism, Communism and ‘Americanism’.”
― Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945

“Silence over Europe’s recent past was the necessary condition for the construction of a European future.”
― Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
― John Locke

“By the time you swear you're his,
Shivering and sighing.
And he vows his passion is,
Infinite, undying.
Lady make note of this --
One of you is lying.”
― Dorothy Parker