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“How can you expect a man who's warm to understand a man who's cold?”
― Alexander Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

“Pride and jealousy there was in his eye, for his life had been spent in asserting rights which were constantly liable to invasion; and the prompt, fiery, and resolute disposition of the man, had been kept constantly upon the alert by the circumstances of his situation”
― Walter Scott, Ivanhoe (Unabridged): Enriched edition. Historical Novel

“nor will I concern myself more for his fate than for that of the most worthless among the millions that ever shaped the cross on their shoulder, rushed into excess and blood-guiltiness, and called it an accomplishment of the will of God.”
― Walter Scott, Ivanhoe (Unabridged): Enriched edition. Historical Novel

“Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 3: Dream Country