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“Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.”
Neil Gaiman
,
“Anansi Boys”
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2005
“the only thing I know is everything you love will die.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
“Survivor”
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1999
“Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.”
Albert Camus
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“The Myth of Sisyphus”
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1942
“You’re alive, Bod. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything.”
Neil Gaiman
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“The Graveyard Book”
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2008
“the idea that I can't share my problems with other people makes me not give a shit about their problems.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
“Invisible Monsters”
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1999
“Maybe you’re playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience.”
John Steinbeck
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“East of Eden”
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1952
“I'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“This Side of Paradise”
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1920
“Things do not change; we change.”
Henry David Thoreau
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“Walden”
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1854
“No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.”
John Steinbeck
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“The Winter of Our Discontent”
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1961
“There’s no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it.”
George R. R. Martin
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“A Clash of Kings”
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1999
“Ye who suffer because ye love, love yet more. To die of love, is to live in it.”
Victor Hugo
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“Les Misérables”
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1862
“My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end.”
Ayn Rand
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“Anthem”
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1938
“The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who will seek them.”
Ayn Rand
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“Anthem”
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1938
“if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you're conforming just as much as everybody else, only in a different way.”
J. D. Salinger
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“Franny and Zooey”
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1961
“What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.”
Henry David Thoreau
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“Walden”
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1854
“As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.”
Henry David Thoreau
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“Walden”
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1854
“with freedom come responsibilities”
Nelson Mandela
,
“Long Walk to Freedom”
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1995
“after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.”
Nelson Mandela
,
“Long Walk to Freedom”
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1995
“I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.”
Charles Dickens
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“David Copperfield”
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1850
“Give me honorable enemies rather than ambitious ones, and I’ll sleep more easily by night.”
George R. R. Martin
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“A Game of Thrones”
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1996
