

“Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we
are. They are different. ”
―
are. They are different. ”
―

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
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―

“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”
― 1984
― 1984

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms...”
―
―

“But the plans were on display…â€�
“On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.�
“That’s the display department.�
“With a flashlight.�
“Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.�
“So had the stairs.�
“But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?�
“Yes,â€� said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.”
― The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
“On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.�
“That’s the display department.�
“With a flashlight.�
“Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.�
“So had the stairs.�
“But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?�
“Yes,â€� said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.”
― The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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