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“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
― C.S. Lewis

“It haunted him all night, while he slept alone; it was still there in the morning, when he swallowed his coffee and backed down the driveway in the crumpled old Ford. And riding to work, one of the youngest and healthiest passengers on the train, he sat with the look of a man condemned to a very slow, painless death. He felt middle-aged.”
― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

“A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ.”
― William Shakespeare, Othello