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“Frankly, the surprising thing about these peoples, when you set aside everyone’s national pride… before visiting a country, I tried to study its history, its Exodus, so to speak, and in the end I found they all followed a common course. In every instance I noted that a people’s prosperity or misery lay in direct proportion to its freedoms or its inhibitions and, along the same lines, of the sacrifice or selfishness of its ancestors.”
― Noli Me Tángere
― Noli Me Tángere
“People believe that madness is when you don't think as they do, which is why they take me for a madman." -Old Tasio”
― Noli Me Tángere
― Noli Me Tángere
“Adam started. He sighed deeply. "Isn't it too simple?" he asked. "I'm always afraid of simple things."
"It isn't simple at all," said Lee. "It's desperately complicated. But at the end there's light.”
― East of Eden
"It isn't simple at all," said Lee. "It's desperately complicated. But at the end there's light.”
― East of Eden
“Forget not, never forget that you have promised me to use this silver to become an honest man.... Jean Valjean, my brother: you belong no longer to evil, but to good. It is your soul that I am buying for you. I withdraw it from dark thoughts and from the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God!”
― Les Misérables
― Les Misérables
“My greatest desire is my country's happiness, a happiness I would like to be owed to the mother country and the efforts of my fellow citizens, united with one another with eternal ties of common vigilance and common interests.”
― Noli Me Tángere
― Noli Me Tángere
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