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“'I don't think—' 'Then you shouldn't talk'”
Lewis Carroll
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“Alice's Adventures in Wonderland”
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1865
“The man who lies to the world, is the world's slave from then on”
Ayn Rand
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“Atlas Shrugged”
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1957
“I don’t want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted?”
Neil Gaiman
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“Coraline”
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2002
“It is nothing to die; it is dreadful not to live.”
Victor Hugo
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“Les Misérables”
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1862
“There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something”
J. R. R. Tolkien
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“The Hobbit”
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1937
“The things we love destroy us every time”
George R. R. Martin
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“A Game of Thrones”
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1996
“It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.”
John Steinbeck
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“The Winter of Our Discontent”
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1961
“I am not proud, but I am happy, and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.”
Alexandre Dumas
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“The Count of Monte Cristo”
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1845
“It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish”
J. R. R. Tolkien
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“The Fellowship of the Ring”
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1954
“if a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.”
Francis Bacon
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“The Advancement of Learning”
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1605
“I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.”
Herman Melville
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“Moby-Dick”
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1851
“To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.”
Ayn Rand
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“The Fountainhead”
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1943
“Shut your eyes and see.”
James Joyce
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“Ulysses”
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1922
“All great and precious things are lonely.”
John Steinbeck
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“East of Eden”
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1952
“The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.”
J. K. Rowling
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“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”
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2007
“insanity is the inability to communicate your ideas.”
Paulo Coelho
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“Veronika Decides to Die”
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1998
“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
J. R. R. Tolkien
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“The Fellowship of the Ring”
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1954
“'What happens when people open their hearts?' . . . 'They get better'”
Haruki Murakami
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“Norwegian Wood”
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1987
“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
Henry David Thoreau
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“Walden”
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1854
“'What is hell?' I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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“The Brothers Karamazov”
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1880
