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“Let us take heed how we laugh without reason, lest we cry with it.”
― Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit

“I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.

I do not think that they will sing to me.”
― T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

“Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.”
― Joanne Harris, Chocolat

“Some nights are made for torture, or reflection, or the savoring of loneliness.”
― Poppy Z.Brite

“A man so painfully in love is capable of self-torture beyond belief.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“You hold onto what you have; you do not give it up easily, even when you know it is poisoning you.”
― Poppy Z. Brite, Wormwood

“Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgement that something is more important than fear; The brave may not live forever but the cautious do not live at all.”
― Meg Cabot, The Princess Diaries

“Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

“and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open and show riches Ready to drop upon me, that when I waked I cried to dream again.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

“How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, that has such people in it!”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

“So. Lie there, my art.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

“Hear my soul speak:
The very instant that I saw you did
My heart fly to your service, there resides
to make me slave to it, and for your sake
Am I this patient log-man.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

“The truth you speak doth lack some gentleness
And time to speak it in. You rub the sore
When you should bring the plaster.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

“Now I want
Spirits to enforce, art to enchant;
And my ending is despair,
Unless I be relieved by prayer”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

“I might call him. A thing divine, for nothing natural. I ever saw so noble.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

“Is not this Stephano, my drunken butler?”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest