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  • #1
    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    “You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power—he's free again.”
    Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Двести лет вместе

  • #2
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #3
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
    Cicero

  • #4
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “In times of war, the law falls silent.

    Silent enim leges inter arma
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #5
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #6
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “Dum Spiro, spero”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #7
    George Orwell
    “The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #8
    George Orwell
    “War is peace.
    Freedom is slavery.
    Ignorance is strength.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #9
    George Orwell
    “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #10
    Mark Twain
    “′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
    Mark Twain

  • #11
    Brandon Sanderson
    “Life before Death.
    Strength before Weakness.
    Journey before Destination.”
    Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

  • #12
    Brandon Sanderson
    “It's easy to believe in something when you win all the time...The losses are what define a man's faith.”
    Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension

  • #13
    Brandon Sanderson
    “There's always another secret.' -Kelsier”
    Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

  • #14
    Brandon Sanderson
    “As I fear not a child with a weapon he cannot lift, I will never fear the mind of a man who does not think.”
    Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

  • #15
    Brandon Sanderson
    “Just because I do not accept the teachings of the devotaries does not mean I've discarded a belief in right and wrong."
    "But the Almighty determines what is right!"
    "Must someone, some unseen thing, declare what is right for it to be right? I believe that my own morality -- which answers only to my heart -- is more sure and true than the morality of those who do right only because they fear retribution.”
    Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

  • #16
    Robert Jordan
    “The Creator made women to please the eye, and to boggle the mind.”
    Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time: Boxed Set

  • #17
    Frank Patrick Herbert
    “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
    Frank Herbert, Dune

  • #18
    Frank Patrick Herbert
    “The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.”
    Frank Herbert, Dune

  • #19
    Robert Jordan
    “Time to toss the dice”
    robert jordan

  • #20
    William Wordsworth
    “And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food.”
    William Wordsworth



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