Doriane

“Unless it can be proven to me—to me as I am now, today, with my heart and my beard, and my putrefaction—that, in the infinite run it does not matter a jot that a North American girl child named Dolores Haze had been deprived of her childhood by a maniac, unless this can be proven (and if it can, life is a joke) I see nothing for the treatment of my misery but the melancholy and very local palliative of articulate art.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Up and with my wife to church, where Mr. Mills made an unnecessary sermon on Original Sin, neither understood by himself, nor the people.”
― Samuel Pepys, The Diary of Samuel Pepys

“Like the archangel who aspired to omnipotence, I am chained in an eternal hell.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein