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“The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“The truth brings no man a fortune.”
― Jean Jacques Rousseau

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.”
― Franz Kafka

“I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“Because paper has more patience than people. ”
― Anne Frank

“Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.”
― Anne Frank

“People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“Whoever is happy will make others happy.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of Anne Frank

“In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
― Anne Frank

“I think a lot, but I don't say much.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“A quiet conscience makes one strong!”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.”
― Anne Frank

“Memories mean more to me than dresses.”
― Anne Frank

“I wish to go on living even after my death.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“The bullet was the means of the physical subjugation. Language was the means of the spiritual subjugation.”
― Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature

“Prescription of the correct cure is dependent on a rigorous analysis of the reality.”
― Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature

“Language as culture is the collective memory bank of a people's experience in history.”
― Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature

“The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination.”
― Northrop Frye

“A shifty, fickle object is woman, always. (Varium et mutabile semper femina.)”
― Virgil, The Aeneid