

“Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of.”
― I Am the Messenger
― I Am the Messenger

“I understand my parents quite well. They think of a wife as a man’s luxury, which he can afford only when he is making a comfortable living. I have a low opinion of this view of the relationship between man and wife, because it makes the wife and the prostitute distinguishable only insofar as the former is able to secure a lifelong contract from the man because of her more favourable social rank . . . Which”
― Young Einstein: And the story of E=mc²
― Young Einstein: And the story of E=mc²

“Not in vain does it [the proletariat] go through the stern but steeling school of labour. It is not a question of what this or that proletarian, or even the whole proletariat, at the moment regards as its aim. It is a question of what the proletariat is, and what, in accordance with this being, it will historically be compelled to do.”
― The Holy Family
― The Holy Family

“Maybe we can politely ignore each other forever? I think that's the mature thing to do.”
― Weirdo: 'Intense, also BRILLIANT, funny and forensically astute.' Marian Keyes
― Weirdo: 'Intense, also BRILLIANT, funny and forensically astute.' Marian Keyes
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