"Anthem" by Ayn Rand

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• "It is a fearful word, alone."
• "Nothing matters save the work, our secret, our evil, our precious work."
• "all men are one and that there is no will save the will of all men together"
• "This is a great sin, to be born with a head which is too quick."
• "The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who will seek them."
• "So much is still to be learned! So long a road lies before us, and what care we if we must travel it alone!"

"Cat's Cradle" by Kurt Vonnegut

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• "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order, so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say."
• "The brainless serenity of charwomen and janitors working late at night came over us. In a messy world we were at least making our little corner clean."
• "Americans are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be."
• "You're looking at the world's champion mistakemaker"
• "All the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies."
• "Anyone unable to understand how a useful religion can be found on lies, will not understant this book either."

"Petty Troubles of Married Life" by Honoré de Balzac

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• "Then what? . . . . . Why, then come a crowd of petty unforeseen troubles, like the following: . . ."
• "General Rule.--No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife."
• "But as to knowing women as well as I know them, it will not be knowing them much; they don't know themselves!"
• "Axiom.--A husband should always know what is the matter with his wife, for she always knows what is not."
• "Axiom.--Inasmuch as women are always willing and able to explain their strong points, they leave us to guess at their weak ones."
•  "You imagine you have married a creature endowed with reason: you are woefully mistaken, my friend."