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“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“It's never the deviants who are the problem, puss. Don't forget that. It's the people who won't open their minds that are dangerous.”
― Lucy Ribchester, The Hourglass Factory

“She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes...”
― Lord Byron

“I have always imagined that Heaven would be some kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Burges

“The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.

Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.

But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.

This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.”
― Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms: The Play

“Oh, my dear Vimes, history changes all the time. It is constantly being re-examined and re-evaluated, otherwise how would we be able to keep historians occupied? We can't possibly allow people with their sort of minds to walk around with time on their hands.”
― Terry Pratchett, Jingo

“It makes us, or it mars us; think on that, And fix most firm thy resolution.”
― William Shakespeare

“Power should be a burden, not a shield. It should be used to everybody’s betterment, not merely for the person who wielded it.”
― Stuart Turton, The Devil and the Dark Water

“Not all hells are created equal.”
― Stuart Turton, The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

“Too little information and you're blind, too much and you're blinded.”
― Stuart Turton, The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

“How lost do you have to be to let the devil lead you home? This lost, I decide. Precisely this lost.”
― Stuart Turton, The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

“If you take the final betrayal out of it,' he said, 'he was a fine agent - one of the best.'
I stared at him. 'That's one way of putting it,' I replied. 'If you take the bomb out of it, 6 August was probably a nice day in Hiroshima.”
― Terry Hayes, I Am Pilgrim

“Never confuse education with intelligence – you can have a Ph.D. and still be an idiot.”
― Terry Hayes, The Year of the Locust