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“Suppose we suddenly wake up and see that what we thought to be this and that, ain't this and that at all?”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

“And what's the best of all," he said, "you've been more comfortable alonger me, since I was under a dark cloud, than when the sun shone. That's the best of all.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“No, my Sassenach", he said softly. "Open your eyes. Look at me. For that is your punishment, as it is mine. See what you have done to me, as I have done to you. Look at me.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber

“Smart people sometimes get stupid, but stupid people never get smart.”
― Don Winslow