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“for they have no conception how a rational creature can be compelled, but only advised, or exhorted; because no person can disobey reason, without giving up his claim to be a rational creature.”
― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels

“I have heard people say love is weak but they’re wrong—love is strong. In nearly everyone it trumps all other things—patriotism and ambition, religion and upbringing. And of every kind of love—the epic and the small, the noble and the base—the one that a parent has for their child is the greatest of them all.”
― Terry Hayes, I Am Pilgrim

“Even extreme grief may ultimately vent itself in violence—but more generally takes the form of apathy. . . .”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“mais oü sont les neiges d'antan”
― Anonymous