“Man cannot be freed by the same injustice that enslaved it.”
― Red Rising
― Red Rising
“Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life.”
― The Time Machine
― The Time Machine
“The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.”
― Of Human Bondage
― Of Human Bondage
“Yet one had ancestors in literature, as well as in one's own race, nearer perhaps in type and temperament”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Dreams, as we all know, are very queer things: some parts are presented with appalling vividness, with details worked up with the elaborate finish of jewellery, while others one gallops through, as it were, without noticing them at all, as, for instance, through space and time. Dreams seem to be spurred on not by reason but by desire, not by the head but by the heart, and yet what complicated tricks my reason has played sometimes in dreams, what utterly incomprehensible things happen to it!”
― The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
― The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
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