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“It is in vain to say human beings are to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. Millions are condemned to a stiller doom than mine, and millions are in silent revolt against their lot. Nobody knows how many rebellions besides political rebellions ferment in the masses of life which people earth.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Man's decay has always begun as soon as he has it all, and is free of friction, pain, and the deprivation that temper his behavior”
― Sam Quinones, Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic

“I think about it quite a bit, actually, that look on his face. I think about a lot of things. I think about the first time I ever saw a birch tree; about the last time I saw Julian; about the first sentence that I ever learned in Greak. χαλεπὰ τὰ καλά... Beauty is harsh...”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“American capitalism needed international rivalry - and periodic war - to create an artificial community of interest between rich and poor, supplanting the genuine community of interest among to poor that showed itself in sporadic movements.”
― Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present