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“Rome was not built in a day.”
Don Quixote • Miguel De Cervantes“There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.”
Oliver Twist • Charles Dickens“Whatever may befall you, it was preordained for you from everlasting.”
Book VII • Marcus Aurelius“'...it is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.' 'A melancholy conclusion,' said K. 'It turns lying into a universal principle.In the Cathedral”
The Trial • Franz Kafka““Look again, and see what will naturally follow if the prisoners are released and disabused of their error. At first, when any of them is liberated and compelled suddenly to stand up and turn his neck round and walk and look towards the light, he will suffer sharp pains; the glare will distress him, and he will be unable to see the realities of which in his former state he had seen the shadows; and then conceive some one saying to him, that what he saw before was an illusion, but that now, when he is approaching nearer to being and his eye is turned towards more real existence, he has a clearer vision,—what will be his reply?””
Republic • Plato