

“He liked fishing and seemed to take pride in being able to like such a stupid occupation.”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina

“Much stronger boys in her class soon learned that it could be quite unpleasant to fight with that skinny girl. Unlike other girls in the class, she never backed down, and she would not for a second hesitate to use her fists or any weapon at hand to protect herself. She went around with the attitude that she would rather be beaten to death than take any shit.”
― The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
― The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

“It is easy to go down into Hell...; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air---there's the rub...”
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“Age is a terrible thief. Just when you're getting the hang of life, it knocks your legs out from under you and stoops your back.”
― Water for Elephants
― Water for Elephants

“There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution”
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