"I wash my hands, wonder how an awful day could turn even worse. It seems like at some point you'd just run out of awful."

-- Kathryn Stockett

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“As far as I am concerned, I resign from humanity. I no longer want to be, nor can still be, a man. What should I do? Work for a social and political system, make a girl miserable? Hunt for weaknesses in philosophical systems, fight for moral and esthetic ideals? Itâ€™s all too little. I renounce my humanity even though I may find myself alone. But am I not already alone in this world from which I no longer expect anything?”

Source : "On the Heights of Despair". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1934.
“Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differences resolved. It is a type of confidence. And it is fragile. It can be blackened by fear, and superstition. By the year 2050, when the conflict began, the world had fallen upon fearful, superstitious times.”
“If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.”
“You can't clobber any reader while he's looking. You divert his attention, then you clobber him and he never knows what hit him.”
“A man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.”

Source : Euripides (2013). “Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes”, p.88, University of Chicago Press
“Come away with in the night Come away with me And I will sing you a song Come away with me on a bus Come away where they can't tempt us With there lies I want to walk with you On a cloudy day In fields where the yellow grass grows Knee-high So won't you try to come Come away with me and we'll kiss On a mountain top Come away with me And I'll never stop loving you And I want to wake up with the rain Falling on a tin roof While I'm safe there in your arms So all I ask is for you To come away with me in the night Come away with me.”
“When we think we know we cease to learn.”

Source : Sir Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1952). “Radhakrishnan: An Anthology”
“We do not need the praises of a Homer, or of anyone else whose words may delight us for the moment, but the estimation of facts will fall short of what is really true.”

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