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“Everyday courage has few witnesses. But yours is no less noble because no drum beats for you and no crowds shout your name.”
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“Every morning when I wake up, I ask myself, "Why was I born?" Then I answer myself, "You were born to be successful." If you can learn to define your own success and not let others dictate it, you can find fulfilment.”
― The Polymorph
― The Polymorph
“It had happened. Thucydides, his archrival, was a general. Glaucon, from his own tribe, was a general. And Pericles was no longer a general. He was just a citizen with one vote. And an idea”
― Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
― Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
“[A]nd both of them remained floating in an empty universe where the only everyday and eternal reality was love.”
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
“There will be in the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them but will rather enjoy it.”
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