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- We have to believe in free will. We’ve got no choice.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904 - 1991), The Times (1982)
- He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool.
- Albert Camus (1913 - 1960), The Rebel (1951)
- Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
- Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922), Les Plaisirs et les Jours (1896)
- I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with a lot of pleasure.
- Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938), Medley
- Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.
- Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Electra
- If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?
- Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)
- Possession is eleven points in the law.
- Colley Cibber (1671 - 1757), Woman's Wit, Act 1
- It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
- Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867)
- There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream - whatever that dream might be.
- Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973)
- In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), Speech, September 22, 1936
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