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“You know, it’s quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment, in the very beginning, when you have to jump across a precipice: if you think about it you don’t do it.” Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

“We have it in our power to begin the world over again.” Thomas Paine, Common Sense

“Beginnings are sudden, but also insidious. They creep up on you sideways, they keep to the shadows, they lurk unrecognized. Then, later, they spring.” Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'” Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

“I think I could, if I only know how to begin.” Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

“All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days... nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.” John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address

“Everything starts somewhere, although many physicists disagree. But people have always been dimly aware of the problem with the start of things. They wonder aloud how the snowplow driver gets to work, or how the makers of dictionaries look up the...” Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

“So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is really completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would have neither beginning nor end: it would simply be. What place, then, for a...” Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

“The true beginning of our end.” William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

“It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish” J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“The scariest moment is always just before you start. After that, things can only get better.” Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“It began as a mistake.” Charles Bukowski, Post Office

“think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.” Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.” Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Every beginning is difficult, holds in all sciences.” Karl Marx, Das Kapital

“I make so many beginnings there never will be an end” Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“Harriet was one of those, who, having once begun, would be always in love.” Jane Austen, Emma

“It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.” Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“For a certain kind of person, love begins from something tiny or silly. From something like that or it doesn't begin at all.” Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

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A Brief History of Time (1)
The Fellowship of the Ring (1)
The Blind Assassin (1)
Great Expectations (1)
Little Women (1)
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Emma (1)
Post Office (1)
Hogfather (1)
Common Sense (1)
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