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Einstein, Albert. "What Life Means to Einstein." Interviewed by George Sylvester Viereck. The Saturday Evening Post, 26 Oct. 1929.

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Voltaire. L'ingenu. 1767, ch. 10.

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Voltaire. "Ingenuous." Candide, Zadig and Selected Stories, translated by Daniel A. Frame. Signet, 2009, ch. 10.

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Voltaire. Letter to Francois-Joachim de Pierre. 23 Apr. 1761.

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Shakespeare, William. "The Two Gentlemen of Verona." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 2, sc. 4.

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Shakespeare, William. "The Two Gentlemen of Verona." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 2, sc. 4.

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Shakespeare, William. "Measure for Measure." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 3, sc. 1.

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Shakespeare, William. "Measure for Measure." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 3, sc. 1.

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Shakespeare, William. "Measure for Measure." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 3, sc. 1.

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Shakespeare, William. "Measure for Measure." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 3, sc. 1.

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Rand, Ayn. Atlas Shrugged. Random House, 1957, pt. 3, ch. 1.

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Shakespeare, William. Henry VI, Part 2. London: Thomas Millington, 1594, act 2, sc. 4.

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Shakespeare, William. "The Second Part of Henry the Sixth." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 2, sc. 4.

Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permits.

Montesquieu

The Spirit of the Laws

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Secondat, Charles Baron de Montesquieu [published anonymously]. L'Esprit de Lois [The Spirit of Laws]. Geneva: Barrillot & Fils, 1748, bk. 11, ch. 3.

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Secondat, Charles Baron de Montesquieu. The Spirit of Laws. Prometheus, 2002, bk. 11, ch. 3.

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France, Anatole. Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard [The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard]. Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1881, pt. 2, ch. 2.

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Flaubert, Gustave. Madame Bovary: Moeurs de Province [Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners]. Revue de Paris, 1 Oct. 1856 - 15 Dec. 1856. Serial.

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Flaubert, Gustave. Madame Bovary, edited and translated by Lydia Davis. Penguin Classics, 2011, pt. 3, ch. 9.

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Schopenhauer, Arthur. "Aphorismen zu Lebensweisheit: Bon Dem, was Einer ist [Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life: What a Man is]." Parerga und Paralipomena. Vol. 1, Berlin: Druck und Verlag von U. W. Haan, 1851.

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Schopenhauer, Arthur. "Aphorisms on the wisdom of life." Parerga and Paralipomena, translated by Sabine Roehr and Christopher Janaway. Vol. 1, Cambridge University Press, 2016.

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Schopenhauer, Arthur. "Ueber die Weiber [On Women]." Parerga und Paralipomena. Vol. 2, Berlin: Druck und Verlag von U. W. Haan, 1851.

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Schopenhauer, Arthur. "On Women." Parerga and Paralipomena, translated by Adrian Del Caro and Christopher Janaway. Vol. 2, Cambridge University Press, 2017.

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Wollstonecraft, Mary. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects. Boston: Thomas and Andrews/London: J. Johnson, 1792, ch. 11.

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Wollstonecraft, Mary. "A Vindication of the Rights of Women." A Vindication of the Rights of Women and A Vindication of the Rights of Men, edited by Janet Todd. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 11.

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Flaubert, Gustave. Letter to George Sand. 17 May 1867.

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Flaubert, Gustave. Flaubert-Sand: The Correspondence, translated by Francis Steegmuller. Knopf, 1993, no. 77.

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Thatcher, Margaret. Speech to Scottish Tories. Conservative Party conference. 5 Oct. 1999, Blackpool, England, UK.

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Shakespeare, William. Romeo and Juliet. London: John Danter, 1597, act 2, sc. 3.

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Shakespeare, William. "Romeo and Juliet." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 2, sc. 3.

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Romans 8:38, 39).

No one knows what it's like
To be the bad man
To be the sad man
Behind blue eyes.

The Who

Behind Blue Eyes

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Townshend, Peter. "Behind Blue Eyes." Performed by The Who. Who's Next. Track Records/Decca Records, 1971.

Words…are loaded pistols.

Jean-Paul Sartre

What is Literature?

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Sartre, Jean Paul. Qu'est-ce que la littérature? [What is Literature?]. Situations, II. Gallimard, 1948, ch. 1.

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Sartre, Jean Paul. What is Literature? Routledge, 2001, ch. 1.