“Work keeps at bay three great evils: boredom, vice, and need.”
― Candide
― Candide
“For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?”
― Confessions
― Confessions
“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.
And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.”
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And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.”
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“Beneath the gore and smoke and loam, this book is about the evanescence of life, and why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow. In the end it is a story of the ineluctable conflict between good and evil, daylight and darkness, the White City and the Black.”
― The Devil in the White City
― The Devil in the White City
“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― 1984
― 1984
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