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“Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.” John Milton, “Paradise Lost” - 1667

“Life is a moment-to-moment struggle against hunger or cold or sleeplessness, against a sour stomach or an aching tooth.” George Orwell, “1984” - 1949

“During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people.” Nelson Mandela, “Long Walk to Freedom” - 1995

“Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult—at least I found it so—than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind.” Charles Darwin, “On The Origin of Species” - 1859

“Death was not the opposite of life. It was already here, within my being, it had always been here, and no struggle would permit me to forget that.” Haruki Murakami, “Norwegian Wood” - 1987

“Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history, such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.” Mao Zedong, “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung” - 1964

“May our struggles and our concern for this planet never take away the joy of our hope.” Pope Francis, “Laudato si'” - 24 May 2015

“In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.” Jane Austen, “Pride and Prejudice” - 28 January 1813

“I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle” Ayn Rand, “Atlas Shrugged” - 1957

“I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in their struggles to be truly free, in their triumphs and defeats, through long years to come, I see the evil of this time and of the previous time of which this is the...” Charles Dickens, “A Tale of Two Cities” - 1859

“The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart.” Albert Camus, “The Myth of Sisyphus” - 1942

“all this is just a power struggle for the spotlight. Just each of us being me, me, me first. The murderer, the victim, the witness, each of us thinks our role is the lead. Probably that goes for anybody in the world.” Chuck Palahniuk, “Invisible Monsters” - 1999

“Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when they have conquered these, rest becomes insufferable.” Blaise Pascal, “Pensées” - 1670

“And yet their wills did not yield, and they struggled on.” J. R. R. Tolkien, “The Return of the King” - 1955

“We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.” John Steinbeck, “Travels with Charley” - 1962

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