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• But what does it mean, the plague? It's life, that's all.

  Albert Camus

  Mean, Plague

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• Is that all time is - our perception of how quickly it does or does not pass?

  Douglas Coupland

  Perception, All Time

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• In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will. The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and reality, even where we will not. Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting. I've thought a great deal about my life and my country. I think there is little that can be truly known. My family has been fortunate. Others were less so. As they are often quick to point out.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Dream, Country, Lying

  Cormac McCarthy (2012). “All the Pretty Horses”, p.244, Pan Macmillan

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• One is always willfully absurd.... If one does not say silly things with a purpose, then he is merely an idiot.

  Galen Beckett

  Silly, Purpose, Idiot

  Galen Beckett (2010). “The House on Durrow Street”, p.206, Spectra

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• People really do change. Don't let anyone tell you differently. That the future does not conform to the past is not the exception, but the rule.

  Jonathan Evison

  Past, People, Conform

  Jonathan Evison (2009). “All About Lulu”, p.233, Soft Skull Press

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• And money, if the pile gets high enough, is something like a big political party: it does as much harm as it does good, it puts too much power in too few hands, and the closer you come to it the dirtier you get.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Party, Hands, Political

  Gregory David Roberts (2012). “Shantaram”, p.523, Hachette UK

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• You know who does have a funny bone in her body? Your mom every night for a dollar.

  Tina Fey

  Mom, Night, Dollars

  "Tina Fey: 'Ugly, pear-shaped and bitchy? I prefer offbeat, business class-assed and exhausted'" by Tina Fey, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2011.

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• If time and space, as sages say, Are things which cannot be, The sun which does not feel decay No greater is than we. So why, Love, should we ever pray To live a century? The butterfly that lives a day Has lived eternity.

  T. S. Eliot

  Butterfly, Space, Decay

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.223, Faber & Faber

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• Up until then it had only been himself. Up to then it had been a private wrestle between him and himself. Nobody else much entered into it. After the people came into it he was, of course, a different man. Everything had changed then and he was no longer the virgin, with the virgin's right to insist upon platonic love. Life, in time, takes every maidenhead, even if it has to dry it up; it does not matter how the owner wants to keep it. Up to then he had been the young idealist. But he could not stay there. Not after the other people entered into it.

  James Jones

  Love Life, Men, People

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• Does Curran not involve you in his strategic sessions?” Ghastek asked. “Nope, I’m just here to look pretty.

  Ilona Andrews

  Looks, Strategic, Session

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Magic Slays”, p.258, Penguin

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• If you are happy in a dream, Ammu, does that count? Estha asked. "Does what count?" "The happiness does it count?". She knew exactly what he meant, her son with his spoiled puff. Because the truth is, that only what counts, counts....."If you eat fish in a dream, does it count?" Does it mean you've eaten fish?

  Arundhati Roy

  Dream, Mean, Son

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• Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Goodness

  "Essays" by Michel de Montaigne, Book I, Ch. 25, 1595.

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• I haven't have fun for a long time," Kaia said with a pout. "Me, either. Except with myself, but I don't suppose that counts." "It does the way I do it.

  Gena Showalter

  Fun, Long, Way

  Gena Showalter, Kait Ballenger (2013). “After Dark: The Darkest Angel\Shadow Hunter”, p.2, Harlequin

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• Heritage does not equal destiny.

  Cate Tiernan

  Destiny, Heritage, Equal

  Cate Tiernan (2008). “The Calling: Book Seven”, p.187, Penguin

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• why does what was beautiful shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths?

  Bernhard Schlink

  Beautiful, Dark, Hindsight

  Bernhard Schlink (2001). “The Reader”, p.37, Vintage

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• The distinction between good and evil is meaningless if one does not have the freedom to choose between them.

  Jim Butcher

  Evil, Distinction, Freedom To Choose

  Jim Butcher (2011). “Ghost Story: The Dresden Files, Book Thirteen”, p.317, Hachette UK

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• I was asking about lust, wasnʼt I? I was fairly certain of it. But isnʼt love supposed to come before lust? It does in the dictionary.

  Franny Billingsley

  Lust, Asking, Certain

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• The words are meaningless except in terms of feeling. Does anyone act as the result of thought or does feeling stimulate action and sometimes thought implement it.

  John Steinbeck

  Feelings, Action, Sometimes

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.107, Penguin

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• The guillotine is the ultimate expression of Law, and its name is vengeance; it is not neutral, nor does it allow us to remain neutral.

  Victor Hugo

  Expression, Law, Names

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• Moreover, the attitude that one ought to believe such and such a proposition, independently of the question whether there is evidence in its favor, is an attitude which produces hostility to evidence and causes us to close our minds to every fact that does not suit our prejudices.

  Bertrand Russell

  Attitude, Believe, Mind

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “Why I Am Not a Christian”, p.55, Lulu Press, Inc

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• If you are really one of us, it won't matter to you that you might fail. And if it does, you are a coward.

  Veronica Roth

  Coward, Divergent, Might

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Divergent Series (Books 1-3) Plus Free Four, The Transfer and World of Divergent”, p.52, HarperCollins UK

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• Well, I suppose one ought not to employ a magician and then complain that he does not behave like other people.

  Susanna Clarke

  People, Complaining, Magician

  Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.416, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• One wants to move through life with elegance and grace, blossoming infrequently but with exquisite taste, and perfect timing, like a rare bloom, a zebra orchid... One wants... But one so seldom gets what one wants, does one?

  Tony Kushner

  Zebras, Moving, Orchids

  Tony Kushner (2013). “Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition”, p.31, Theatre Communications Group

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• Anger does not come easy to me. It is something I have to encourage, like a greyhound in second place.

  Joe Dunthorne

  Easy, Greyhounds, Second Place

  Joe Dunthorne (2011). “Submarine”, p.33, Penguin UK

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• The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activity, and even moral preference, are exercised only in making a choice. He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.

  John Stuart Mill

  Choices, Feelings, Perception

  John Stuart Mill (1989). “J. S. Mill: 'On Liberty' and Other Writings”, p.59, Cambridge University Press

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