“Nothing makes time pass or shortens the way like a thought that absorbs in itself all the faculties of the one who is thinking. External existence is then like a sleep of which this thought is the dream. Under its influence, time has no more measure, space has no more distance.”
― The Three Musketeers
― The Three Musketeers
“No matter what night preceded it, she had never known a morning when she did not feel the rise of a quiet excitement that became a tightening energy in her body and a hunger for action in her mind—because this was the beginning of day and it was a day of her life.”
― Atlas Shrugged
― Atlas Shrugged
“I'm always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty and I wonder how the same can be both.”
― The Book Thief
― The Book Thief
“You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
― The Handmaid’s Tale
“Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody — no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds... Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe.”
― The Sandman, Vol. 5: A Game of You
― The Sandman, Vol. 5: A Game of You
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