Nick

“Tom went to and fro every morning and evening and became more and more silent in the short intervals at home: what was there to say? One day was like another, and Tom's interest in life, driven back and crushed on every other side, was concentrating itself into the one channel of ambitious resistance to misfortune.”
― George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

“War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object. ”
― Albert Camus

“Know that there is nothing more lofty, nor more powerful, nor more healthy nor more useful later on in life than some good memory.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov