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“Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?”

The Inspector General • Nikolai Gogol

“ "But Gregor found it easy to give up having the door open, he had, after all, often failed to make use of it when it was open and, without the family having noticed it, lain in his room in its darkest corner."”

Metamorphosis and Other Stories • Franz Kafka

“It invites a search for ultimate causes: why were Europeans, rather than Africans or Native Americans, the ones to end up with guns, the nastiest germs, and steel?”

Guns, Germs And Steel • Jared Diamond, Ph.D. (UCLA)

“Why count the days, when even one days is enough for a man to know all happiness?”

The Karamazov Brothers • Fyodor Dostoevski

“By patriotism is meant, not only spontaneous, instinctive love for one's own nation, and preference for it above all other nations, but also the belief that such love and preference are good and useful.”

Letter to Polish Journalist • Leo Tolstoy