“To leave the world a little better than you found it. That's the best a man can ever do.”
― Timbuktu
― Timbuktu
“Don't you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don't expect to see.”
― Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
― Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
“If ever tears and pleadings have served the weak to fight the strong, let them do so now!”
― The Mayor of Casterbridge
― The Mayor of Casterbridge
“And all this while the subtle-souled girl asking herself why she was born, why sitting in a room, and blinking at the candle; why things around her had taken the shape they wore in preference to every other possible shape.”
― The Mayor of Casterbridge
― The Mayor of Casterbridge
“She had been too early habituated to anxious reasoning to drop the habit suddenly.”
― The Mayor of Casterbridge
― The Mayor of Casterbridge
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