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“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will, which I now exert to leave you.”
Charlotte Brontë
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“Jane Eyre”
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16 October 1847
“Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the want of contradiction a sign of truth.”
Blaise Pascal
,
“Pensées”
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1670
“you guys are going to have to come up with a lot of wonderful new lies, or people just aren't going to want to go on living.”
Kurt Vonnegut
,
“Slaughterhouse-Five”
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1969
“All falsehood is a mask; and however well made the mask may be, with a little attention we may always succeed in distinguishing it from the true face.”
Alexandre Dumas
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“The Three Musketeers”
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1844
“Humans! They lived in a world where the grass continued to be green and the sun rose every day and flowers regularly turned into fruit, and what impressed them? Weeping statues. And wine made out of water!”
Terry Pratchett
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“Small Gods”
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1992
“there are honor and goodness in the world, the same as there are diamonds and radium.”
Marilyn Monroe
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“My Story”
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1974
“We Earth Men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things.”
Ray Bradbury
,
“The Martian Chronicles”
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1950
“The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch.”
Chuck Palahniuk
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“Lullaby”
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2002
“you can be excused just about anything if you’re a hero, because no one asks inconvenient questions.”
Terry Pratchett
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“Hogfather”
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1996
“the whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano-key!”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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“Notes from Underground”
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1864
“although a skilful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you can keep him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.”
Charles Dickens
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“Nicholas Nickleby”
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1839
“the difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she's treated.”
George Bernard Shaw
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“Pygmalion”
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1913
“It is no use trying to sum people up.”
Virginia Woolf
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“Jacob's Room”
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1922
“The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them”
George R. R. Martin
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“A Storm of Swords”
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2000
“The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.”
Terry Pratchett
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“Hogfather”
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1996
“One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
,
“Thus Spoke Zarathustra”
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1891
“Have no friends not equal to yourself.”
Confucius
,
“Analects”
“that is the way fear serves us: it always sides with the thing we are afraid of.”
George MacDonald
,
“The Princess and the Goblin”
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1872
“Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all, those who live without love.”
J. K. Rowling
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“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”
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2007
“Everything that happens before Death is what counts.”
Ray Bradbury
,
“Something Wicked This Way Comes”
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1962
