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“Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.”
Charles Dickens
,
“Great Expectations”
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1861
“Can you honestly love a dishonest thing?”
John Steinbeck
,
“The Winter of Our Discontent”
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1961
“I used to think she was quite intelligent, in my stupidity.”
J. D. Salinger
,
“The Catcher in the Rye”
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1951
“Love is the folly of men and the wit of God.”
Victor Hugo
,
“Les Misérables”
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1862
“Is not life a hundred times too short for us—to bore ourselves?”
Friedrich Nietzsche
,
“Beyond Good and Evil”
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1886
“Fair speech may hide a foul heart.”
J. R. R. Tolkien
,
“The Two Towers”
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1954
“For that edifice rested on the single column of her fidelity, and loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they, too, fade away.”
Milan Kundera
,
“The Unbearable Lightness of Being”
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1984
“One always finds one's burden again.”
Albert Camus
,
“The Myth of Sisyphus”
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1942
“from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.”
Charles Darwin
,
“On The Origin of Species”
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1859
“there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
,
“Studies in Pessimism”
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1891
“It is not down in any map; true places never are.”
Herman Melville
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“Moby-Dick”
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1851
“There's only one rule you need to remember: laugh at everything and forget everybody else! It sounds egotistical, but it's actually the only cure for those suffering from self-pity.”
Anne Frank
,
“The Diary of a Young Girl”
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1947
“Just remember before you do that Dumbo didn’t need the feather; the magic was in him.”
Stephen King
,
“On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft”
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2000
“what is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying”
Albert Camus
,
“The Myth of Sisyphus”
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1942
“Love loves to love love.”
James Joyce
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“Ulysses”
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1922
“Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death.”
Albert Camus
,
“The Fall”
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1956
“It doesn't matter what you do . . . so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away.”
Ray Bradbury
,
“Fahrenheit 451”
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1953
“the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed.”
L. Frank Baum
,
“The Marvelous Land of Oz”
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1904
“People over forty can seldom be permanently convinced of anything. At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
,
“Flappers and Philosophers”
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1920
“I've chosen the work I want to do. If I find no joy in it, then I'm only condemning myself to sixty years of torture. And I can find the joy only if I do my work in the best way possible to me. But the best is a matter of standards—and I set my ...”
Ayn Rand
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“The Fountainhead”
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1943
