Josh

“That which can be destroyed by the truth should be.”
― P.C. Hodgell, Seeker's Mask

“When you know what a man wants you know who he is, and how to move him.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“To those who have neither public nor private affections, the excitements of life are much curtailed, and in any case dwindle in value as the time approaches when all selfish interests must be terminated by death: while those who leave after them objects of personal affection, and especially those who have also cultivated a fellow-feeling with the collective interests of mankind, retain as lively an interest in life on the eve of death as in the vigour of youth and health.”
― John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism

“I cannot combine some characters

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which the divine Library has not foreseen and which in one of its secret tongues do not contain a terrible meaning. No one can articulate a syllable which is not filled with tenderness and fear, which is not, in one of these languages, the powerful name of a god. To speak is to fall into tautology.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel