A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.
~ Franz Kafka
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This world, the whole of the planet called earth, is the common country of all who live and breathe upon it.
~ Desiderius Erasmus
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No love can survive muteness.
~ Milan Kundera
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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
~ Anton Chekhov
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Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy is the best bred in the company.
~ Jonathan Swift
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If a man has his eyes bound, you can encourage him as much as you like to stare through the bandage, but he’ll never see anything.
~ Franz Kafka
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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
~ G. K. Chesterton
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It is not the job of truth to make us feel good. It is the job of truth to be true, and it is our job to deal with it.
~ William Deresiewicz
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Hail fellow, well met.
~ Jonathan Swift
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