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“Your heart is alive. Keep listening to what it has to say.”
Paulo Coelho
,
“The Alchemist”
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1988
“Life isn’t a support-system for art. It’s the other way around.”
Stephen King
,
“On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft”
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2000
“No rose without a thorn. Yes, but many a thorn without a rose.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
,
“Studies in Pessimism”
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1891
“Death was a friend, and sleep was death’s brother.”
John Steinbeck
,
“The Grapes of Wrath”
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1939
“Mediocrity's like a spot on a shirt—it never comes off.”
Haruki Murakami
,
“Dance Dance Dance”
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1994
“The answer is meaningless unless you discover it for yourself.”
W. Somerset Maugham
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“Of Human Bondage”
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1915
“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
Oscar Wilde
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“Intentions”
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1891
“Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.”
Tennessee Williams
,
“The Glass Menagerie”
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1944
“There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs.”
George R. R. Martin
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“A Storm of Swords”
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2000
“Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.”
James Joyce
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“Ulysses”
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1922
“It is the easiest thing in the world for a man to look as if he had a great secret in him.”
Herman Melville
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“Moby-Dick”
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1851
“They were like two enemies in love with one another.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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“The Brothers Karamazov”
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1880
“Love is the most selfish of all the passions.”
Alexandre Dumas
,
“The Three Musketeers”
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1844
“Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.”
George Orwell
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“1984”
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1949
“When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done.”
John Maynard Keynes
,
“The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money”
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1936
“This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.”
Oscar Wilde
,
“The Importance of Being Earnest”
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1895
“Every heart has its own skeletons”
Leo Tolstoy
,
“Anna Karenina”
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1877
“I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
J. K. Rowling
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“Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban”
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1999
“The earth does not want new continents, but new men.”
Jules Verne
,
“Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea”
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1870
“dreamers often lie.”
William Shakespeare
,
“Romeo and Juliet”
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1597
