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“They say every atom in our bodies was once a part of a star. Maybe I’m not leaving, maybe I’m going home.”
― Vincent Freeman

“The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.”
― Dorothy Parker

“Drink and dance and laugh and lie,
Love, the reeling midnight through,
For tomorrow we shall die!
(But, alas, we never do.)”
― Dorothy Parker, Death and Taxes

“Books may well be the only true magic.”
― Alice Hoffman

“Explaining why you love something is one of the most important jobs on earth.”
― Caitlin Moran, How to Build a Girl

“Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.”
― Caitlin Moran, How to Build a Girl

“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.”
― Aldous Huxley

“Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.”
― Aldous Huxley

“I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“I am I, and I wish I weren't.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.”
― Aldous Huxley

“Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“...most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then," he added in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“I'd rather be myself," he said. "Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.”
― Huxley Aldous

“I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few.”
― Adolf Hitler

“Words build bridges into unexplored regions.”
― Adolf Hitler

“To conquer a nation, first disarm its citizens.”
― Adolf Hitler

“He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.”
― Adolf Hitler

“if you want to shine like sun first you have to burn like it.”
― Adolf Hitler

“Anyone can deal with victory. Only the mighty can bear defeat.”
― Adolf Hitler

“And I can fight only for something that I love, love only what I respect, and respect only what I at least know.”
― Adolf Hitler

“Do not compare yourself to others. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.”
― Adolf Hitler

“How could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?”
― Plato, The Allegory of the Cave

“Most people are not just comfortable in their ignorance, but hostile to anyone who points it out.”
― Plato, The Allegory of the Cave

“It is the task of the enlightened not only to ascend to learning and to see the good but to be willing to descend again to those prisoners and to share their troubles and their honors, whether they are worth having or not. And this they must do, even with the prospect of death.”
― Plato, The Allegory of the Cave

“We have art in order not to die of the truth.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche