

“You are never too old to set another goal, or to dream a new dream.”
― Live Your Dreams
― Live Your Dreams

“If it were possible for any nation to fathom another people's bitter experience through a book, how much easier its future fate would become and how many calamities and mistakes it could avoid. But it is very difficult. There always is this fallacious belief: 'It would not be the same here; here such things are impossible.'
Alas, all the evil of the twentieth century is possible everywhere on earth.”
― The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
Alas, all the evil of the twentieth century is possible everywhere on earth.”
― The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”
― Great Expectations
― Great Expectations

“Such a lot is won when even a single man gets to his feet and says No”
― Galileo
― Galileo

“You will never make a good impression on other people until you stop thinking about what sort of impression you are making. Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it... Give up yourself, and you will find your real self.”
― Mere Christianity
― Mere Christianity
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