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“When reason fails, the devil helps!”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
“Crime and Punishment”
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1867
“hysteria is impossible without an audience. Panicking by yourself is the same as laughing alone in an empty room. You feel really silly.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
“Invisible Monsters”
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1999
“the world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.”
J. R. R. Tolkien
,
“The Return of the King”
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1955
“when you find that people are not telling you the truth—look out!”
Agatha Christie
,
“The Mysterious Affair at Styles”
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1920
“Fine feathers don't make fine birds.”
Aesop
,
“Aesop's Fables”
“No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.”
John Steinbeck
,
“The Winter of Our Discontent”
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1961
“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”
George Orwell
,
“1984”
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1949
“You’re someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that, in my view, is a serious illness.”
Paulo Coelho
,
“Veronika Decides to Die”
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1998
“Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the society of clever women.”
Leo Tolstoy
,
“War and Peace”
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1869
“Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men.”
Confucius
,
“Analects”
“Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.”
Carl Sagan
,
“The Demon-Haunted World”
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1995
“Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours. Nothing in you that has not died will ever be raised from the dead.”
C. S. Lewis
,
“Mere Christianity”
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1952
“The most important thing we ever learn at school is the fact that the most important things can’t be learned at school.”
Haruki Murakami
,
“What I Talk About When I Talk About Running”
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2007
“If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.”
Charlotte Brontë
,
“Jane Eyre”
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16 October 1847
“It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.”
J. K. Rowling
,
“Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”
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2005
“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
Henry David Thoreau
,
“Walden”
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1854
“Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
,
“Nausea”
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1938
“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”
William Shakespeare
,
“A Midsummer Night's Dream”
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1601
“As long as this exists . . . this sunshine and this cloudless sky, and as long as I can enjoy it, how can I be sad?”
Anne Frank
,
“The Diary of a Young Girl”
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1947
“I shouldn't mind being a bride at a wedding, if I could be one without having a husband.”
Thomas Hardy
,
“Far from the Madding Crowd”
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1874
