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• Lying on the floor, with the carved panels of the ceiling flickering dimly above, I found myself thinking that I had always heretofore assumed that the tendency of eigh­teenth-century ladies to swoon was due to tight stays; now I rather thought it might be due to the idiocy of eighteenth-century men.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Lying, Men, Thinking

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.1036, Dell

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• There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts.

  Bertrand Russell

  Ideas, World, Poverty

  Bertrand Russell (1971). “Ladislas Reymont: Romain Rolland ; Bertrand Russell”

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• The reason why I do not know anything about myself, the reason why Siddhartha has remained alien and unknown to myself is due to one thing, to one single thing--I was afraid of myself, I was fleeing from myself. I was seeking Atman, I was seeking Brahman, I was determined to dismember myself and tear away its layers of husk in order to find in its unknown innermost recess the kernel at the heart of those layers, the Atman, life, the divine principle, the ultimate. But in so doing, I was losing myself.

  Hermann Hesse

  Heart, Order, Siddhartha

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• Everything will come in due course, if you have the gumption to wait for it.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Waiting, Gumption, Courses

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• Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  People, Perfection, Sometimes

  W. Somerset Maugham (2013). “The Essential W. Somerset Maugham Collection”, p.1397, eBookIt.com

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• I've always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I'm not, remaining humanly unknown, with naturalness and all due respect

  Fernando Pessoa

  Taken, Rejected, Book Of Disquiet

  Fernando Pessoa (2007). “The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa”, p.330, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• love as a passion—it is our European specialty—must absolutely be of noble origin; as is well known, its invention is due to the Provencal poet-cavaliers, those brilliant, ingenious men of the "gai saber," to whom Europe owes so much, and almost owes itself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Passion, Men, Europe

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2013). “The Selected Writings of Friedrich Nietzsche”, p.666, Simon and Schuster

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• If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent

  Isaac Newton

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• this is the weakness of most 'edifying' or 'propaganda' literature. There is no diversity...You cannot, in fact, give God His due without giving the devil his due also.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Giving, Diversity, Devil

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• I don't think it had ever occurred to me that man's supremacy is not primarily due to his brain, as most of the books would have one think. It is due to the brain's capacity to make use of the information conveyed to it by a narrow band of visible light rays. His civilization, all that he had achieved or might achieve, hung upon his ability to perceive that range of vibrations from red to violet. Without that, he was lost.

  John Wyndham

  Book, Men, Thinking

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• He stood staring into the wood for a minute, then said: "What is it about the English countryside — why is the beauty so much more than visual? Why does it touch one so?" He sounded faintly sad. Perhaps he finds beauty saddening — I do myself sometimes. Once when I was quite little I asked father why this was and he explained that it was due to our knowledge of beauty's evanescence, which reminds us that we ourselves shall die. Then he said I was probably too young to understand him; but I understood perfectly.

  Dodie Smith

  Father, Doe, Littles

  Dodie Smith, Frances Hodgson Burnett (2012). “Stop What You’re Doing and Read…To Your Daughter: I Capture the Castle & The Secret Garden”, p.123, Random House

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• My hapless peers with their lofty dreams--how I envy and despise them! I'm with the others, the even more hapless, who have no-one but themselves to whom they can tell their dreams and show what would be verses if they wrote them. I'm with those poor slobs who have no books to show, who have no literature beside their own soul, and who are suffocating to death due to the fact that they exist without having taken that mysterious, transcendental exam that makes one eligible to live.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dream, Book, Taken

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• MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavour to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Nature, Science, Brain

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.164, University of Georgia Press

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• I do not at all believe in human freedom in the philosophical sense... Schopenhauer’s saying, ‘A man can do what he wants, but not will what he wants,’ has been a very real inspiration to me since my youth; it has been a continual consolation in the face of life’s hardships, my own and others’, and an unfailing wellspring of tolerance. This realization mercifully mitigates the easily paralyzing sense of responsibility and prevents us from taking ourselves and other people too seriously; it is conducive to a view of life which, in part, gives humour its due.

  Albert Einstein

  Real, Believe, Philosophical

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• A piece of happiness should never be taken as due.

  Charlaine Harris

  Taken, Pieces, Should

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.922, Penguin

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• 'It's been almost a month since you found a body. I knew you were due.'

  Janet Evanovich

  Body, Months, Seven

  "Book Excerpt: 'Seven Up'", abcnews.go.com. January 6, 2006.

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• You can't wait around for destiny to give you what you think you deserve, you have to earn it, even if you think you've paid your dues.

  Slash

  Destiny, Thinking, Deserve You

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• We all get lost once in a while, sometimes by choice, sometimes due to forces beyond our control. When we learn what it is our soul needs to learn, the path presents itself. Sometimes we see the way out but wander further and deeper despite ourselves; the fear, the anger or the sadness preventing us returning. Sometimes we prefer to be lost and wandering, sometimes it's easier. Sometimes we find our own way out. But regardless, always, we are found.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Believe, Sadness, Choices

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• Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due to the offenders’ ignorance of what is good or evil.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Ignorance, Ill Will, Evil

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• The paradox in Christian truth is invariably due to the fact that it is the truth that exists for God. The standard of measure and the end is superhuman; and there is only one relationship possible: faith.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Christian, Truth, Facts

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• In a head-on collision with Fanatics, the real problem is always the same: how can we possibly behave decently toward people so arrogantly ignorant that they believe, first, that they possess Christ's power to bestow salvation, second, that forcing us to memorize and regurgitate a few of their favorite Bible phrases and attend their church is that salvation, and third, that any discomfort, frustration, anger or disagreement we express in the face of their moronic barrages is due not to their astounding effrontery but to our sinfulness?

  David James Duncan

  Real, Believe, Frustration

  David James Duncan (2010). “The Brothers K”, p.227, Dial Press

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• You'd tell me if we were getting married, wouldn't you? I mean, you wouldn't just appear on my doorstep one day and say we were due at the church in an hour.

  Janet Evanovich

  Mean, Church, One Day

  Janet Evanovich (2011). “Seven Up: The One With The Mud Wrestling”, p.69, Hachette UK

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• To speak seriously: the standards of "goodness" which are generally recognized by public opinion are not those which are calculated to make the world a happier place. This is due to a variety of causes, of which the chief is tradition, and the next most powerful is the unjust power of dominant classes.

  Bertrand Russell

  Powerful, Class, World

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “Sceptical Essays”, p.97, Psychology Press

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• The line between the public life and the private life has been erased, due to the rapid decline of manners and courtesy. There is a certain crudeness and crassness that has suddenly become accepted behavior, even desirable.

  Fannie Flagg

  Lines, Behavior, Courtesy

  Fannie Flagg (1999). “Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!”, Random House LLC

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• Possibly the only good to come out of these nightmares was that it brought Hans Hubermann, her new papa, into the room, to soothe her, to love her. He came every night and sat with her. The first couple of times, he simply stayed - a stranger to kill the aloneness. A few nights after that, he whispered, "Shhh, I'm here, it's all right." After three weeks he held her. Trust was accumulated quickly, due primarily to the brute strength of the man's gentleness, his thereness. The girl knew from the outset that Hans Hubermann would always appear midscream, and he would not leave. (36)

  Markus Zusak

  Girl, Couple, Night

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