• "on doit des égards aux vivants; on ne doit aux morts que la vérité." — voltaire in a letter to m. de grenonville c.1719
• "for the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to think independently and an ardent desire for the truth." — plutarch, "on listening / de auditu"
• "man is condemned to be free." — jean-paul sartre existentialism and human emotions c. 1957
• "talk nonsense, but talk your own nonsense, and i'll kiss you for it. to go wrong in your own way is better than to go right in someone else's." — fyodor dostoevsky, crime and punishment c. 1866
• "the flow of time is always cruel... its speed seems different for each person, but no one can change it... a thing that does not change with time is a memory of younger days..." — shiek, the legend of zelda: ocarina of time
• "the only time a man can be brave is when he is afraid" — bran stark remembering eddard stark's words, a dance with dragons c. 2011
• "perhaps i cannot make my people good, she told herself, but i should at least try to make them a little less bad." ― daenerys targaryen, a game of thrones c. 1996

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