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#1
“The line between education and brainwashing is paper thin”
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Yana Toboso,
Black Butler, Vol. 1
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#2
“Something once lost will never return”
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Yana Toboso,
Black Butler, Vol. 1
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#3
“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
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Oscar Wilde,
The Picture of Dorian Gray
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#4
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
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Oscar Wilde,
De Profundis
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#5
“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
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George Orwell,
1984
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#6
“To define is to limit.”
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Oscar Wilde,
The Picture of Dorian Gray
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#7
“When she's abandoned her moral center and teachings...when she's cast aside her facade of propriety and lady-like demeanor...when I have so corrupted this fragile thing and brought out a writhing, mewling, bucking, wanton whore for my enjoyment and pleasure.....enticing from within this feral lioness...growling and scratching and biting...taking everything I dish out to her.....at that moment she is never more beautiful to me. ”
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Marquis de Sade
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#8
“Fuck! Is one expected to be a gentleman when one is stiff?”
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Marquis De Sade
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#9
“What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act? That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you...every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates.”
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Marquis de Sade,
Philosophy in the Boudoir
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#10
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
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George Orwell,
Animal Farm
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#11
“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”
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George Orwell,
1984
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#12
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”
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George Orwell,
1984
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future
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#13
“The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.”
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George Orwell,
1984
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1984
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#14
“Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.”
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George Orwell
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#15
“About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives. This can be defined as the general neurosis of our times.”
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Carl Gustav Jung
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mental-health
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#16
“The shortest horror story:
The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.”
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Frederic Brown
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