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“We Earth Men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things.”
Ray Bradbury
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“The Martian Chronicles”
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1950
“Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants, willing to be dethroned.”
James Joyce
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“Ulysses”
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1922
“a journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.”
John Steinbeck
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“Travels with Charley”
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1962
“A fool with a heart and no brains is just as unhappy as a fool with brains and no heart.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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“The Idiot”
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1874
“You wear your honor like a suit of armor, Stark. You think it keeps you safe, but all it does is weigh you down and make it hard for you to move.”
George R. R. Martin
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“A Game of Thrones”
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1996
“the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate.”
Milan Kundera
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“The Unbearable Lightness of Being”
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1984
“if there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.”
Charles Dickens
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“The Old Curiosity Shop”
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1841
“It is one of the defects of my character that I cannot altogether dislike anyone who makes me laugh.”
W. Somerset Maugham
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“The Moon and Sixpence”
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1919
“Live all you can; it's a mistake not to.”
Henry James
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“The Ambassadors”
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1903
“Compassion is the chief law of human existence.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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“The Idiot”
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1874
“When I am king, they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books; for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved”
Mark Twain
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“The Prince and the Pauper”
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1881
“Contemplating the task ahead would not make it easier or the water warmer.”
J. K. Rowling
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“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”
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2007
“To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.”
Blaise Pascal
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“Pensées”
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1670
“Don’t adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on the story.”
J. R. R. Tolkien
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“The Fellowship of the Ring”
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1954
“People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues.”
Haruki Murakami
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“Kafka on the Shore”
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2002
“There is only one way to learn . . . It's through action. Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.”
Paulo Coelho
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“The Alchemist”
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1988
“To realize one's destiny is a person's only real obligation.”
Paulo Coelho
,
“The Alchemist”
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1988
“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.”
Henry David Thoreau
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“Walden”
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1854
“A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.”
Oscar Wilde
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“The Soul of Man under Socialism”
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1891
“Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons—that's philosophy.”
Aldous Huxley
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“Brave New World”
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1932
