Turning your back on the darkness didn’t mean the darkness would turn its back on you. ― Jennifer Donnelly

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You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.

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As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in? - Alexis de Tocqueville

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History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. -Alexis de Tocqueville

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History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. - Alexis de Tocqueville

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The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies. - Alexis de Tocqueville

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In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them. -Alexis de Tocqueville

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Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom. -Alexis de Tocqueville

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In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned. - Alexis de Tocqueville

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Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves. - Alexis de Tocqueville

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