Gustavo Jacob

“Very few people really care about freedom, about liberty, about the truth, very few. Very few people have guts, the kind of guts on which a real democracy has to depend. Without people with that sort of guts a free society dies or cannot be born.”
― Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook

“... one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.”
― Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow

“No, give me the past. It doesn’t change; it’s all there in black and white, and you can get to know about it comfortably and decorously and, above all, privately - by reading. … As reading becomes more and more habitual and widespread, an ever-increasing number of people will discover that books will give them all the pleasures of social life and none of its intolerable tedium.”
― Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow

“Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”
― Doris Lessing