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“That day must come when men will understand that freedom and daily bread enough to satisfy all are unthinkable and can never be had together, as men will never be able to fairly divide the two among themselves. And they will also learn that they can never be free, for they are weak, vicious, miserable nonentities born wicked and rebellious.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Grand Inquisitor

“Many questions were troubling the explorer, but at the sight of the prisoner he asked only: "Does he know his sentence?" "No," said the officer, eager to go on with his exposition, but the explorer interrupted him: "He doesn't know the sentence that has been passed on him?" "No," said the officer again, pausing a moment as if to let the explorer elaborate his question, and then said: "There would be no point in telling him. He'll learn it on his body.”
― Franz Kafka, In the Penal Colony

“Whatever happens to me, I will have lived a thousand normal lives by what I might add to others not yet born.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

“She read my books the way a young cannibal might eat the hearts of brave old enemies. Their magic would become hers.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Jailbird