I don't /want/ whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted? Just like that, and it didn't /mean/ anything. What then?
- Neil Gaiman, Coraline

"There they were, clse together and safe and shut in; yet so chained to their separate destinies that they might as well have been half the world apart."
- Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

"We're none of us infallible, but we owe it to ourselves and to those around us to act with whatever wisdom we possess. Otherwise, how will mankind ever improve?"
- Minette Walters, The Scold's Bridle

"In the beginning, there was no Europe."
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"In the beginning, there was no book."
- Norman Davies, Europe: A History

Finished copying my quotation archive from Twitter and will stop spamming now.

"The end of the world has come, and still nobody will listen."
- Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

"Eine aufwieglerische Lüge ist kraftvoller als eine langweilige Wahrheit."
- Aus "Borgia", Ep. 1x04, Rodrigo Borgia

"The beautiful thing about having a philosophy, it seems to me, is that it enables its owner to find extenuating circumstances for his own conduct in all situations."
- Colleen McCullough, Caesar (Masters of Rome V)

"Wahlkampf ist nichts anderes als Karneval mit anderen Mitteln."
- Peter Dausend , ZEIT 11/2022