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Philosophical literature2 quotes
What a chimera then is man! What a novelty! What a monster, what a chaos, what a contradiction, what a prodigy! Judge of all things, feeble earth-worn, depository of truth, a sink of uncertainty and error, the glory and the shame of the universe. — Blaise Pascal · 1670Every man hath a good and bad angel attending on him in particular, all his life long. — Robert Burton · 1621Feminist literature1 quote
The beauty of the world which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. — Virginia Woolf · 1929Historical literature1 quote
If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart? — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn · 1973History (play)1 quote
Virtue is choked with foul ambition. — William Shakespeare · 1594Political literature1 quote
If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart? — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn · 1973Science fiction1 quote
All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1886Travel writing1 quote
Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody. — Mark Twain · 1897