“Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.”
― The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
― The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
“But that’s always the way; it don’t make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person’s conscience ain’t got no sense, and just goes for him anyway.”
― The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
― The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
“One can't live with one's finger everlastingly on one's pulse.”
― Heart of Darkness
― Heart of Darkness
“For a little while, hope made a show of reviving-not with any reason to back it, but only because it is its nature to revive when the spring has not been taken out of it by age and familiarity with failure.”
― The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
― The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
“No, I don't like work. I had rather laze about and think of all the fine things that can be done. I don't like work— no man does— but I like what is in the work,— the chance to find yourself. Your own reality— for yourself, not for others— what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really means.”
― Heart of Darkness
― Heart of Darkness
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