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“Absorbing, mysterious, of infinite richness, this life.” Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway

“It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That's how the world is going to end.” William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

“If one's lot is cast among fools, it is necessary to study folly.” Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance.” Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.” Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“If God be for us, who can be against us?” Saint Augustine, Confessions

“Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.” Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

“Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.” Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.” John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Go back? . . . No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!” J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

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