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• Far away if first black, But it shall be back Over field Over flower In the twilight hour. We are home in our tree. We are owls, we are free. As we go, this we know Glaux is nigh.

  Kathryn Lasky

  Flower, Twilight, Home

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• We are only what we know, and I wished to be so much more than I was, sorely.

  David Mitchell

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.208, Random House

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• And the people next door oppress me all night long. I tell them, I work all day, a man's got to have some time to learn to play the tuba. That's oppression, that is. If I'm not under the heel of the oppressor, I don't know who is.

  Terry Pratchett

  Night, Men, Doors

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Guards! Guards!: (Discworld Novel 8)”, p.11, Random House

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• But we do need a breather. We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are. They’re Caesar’s praetorian guard, whispering as the parade roars down the avenue, ‘Remember, Caesar, thou art mortal.’ Most of us can’t rush around, talk to everyone, know all the cities of the world, we haven’t time, money or that many friends. The things you’re looking for, Montag, are in the world, but the only way the average chap will ever see ninety-nine per cent of them is in a book.

  Ray Bradbury

  Art, Book, Ninety Nine

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.41, Hamilton Books

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• The spirituality of wonder knows the world is charged with grace, that while sin and war, disease and death are terribly real, God's loving presence and power in our midst are even more real.

  Brennan Manning

  Real, War, Disease And Death

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.65, Multnomah

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• You know what I'm afraid of? That God is sick of us.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Sick

  Naguib Mahfouz (2016). “Adrift on the Nile”, p.21, Anchor

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• There are things that can't be said, because it's hard to have to know them.

  Ali Smith

  Said, Hard

  Ali Smith (2007). “The Accidental”, p.117, Anchor

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• Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean.

  Gregory David Roberts

  I Love You, Happiness, Heartbreak

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.37, Macmillan

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• Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.

  Blaise Pascal

  Pride, Vanity, Curiosity

  Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics

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• Many folk like to know beforehand what is to be set on the table; but those who have laboured to prepare the feast like to keep their secret; for wonder makes the words of praise louder.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Secret, Tables, Wonder

  "The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, Book 3)". Book by J. R. R. Tolkien, October 20, 1955.

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• In order to know your enemy, you must become your enemy.

  Chris Bradford

  War, Order, Enemy

  Chris Bradford (2010). “The Ring of Earth (Young Samurai, Book 4): The Ring of Earth”, p.62, Penguin UK

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• A frog in a well does not know the great sea.

  Chris Bradford

  Sea, Doe, Frogs

  Chris Bradford (2010). “The Ring of Earth (Young Samurai, Book 4): The Ring of Earth”, p.58, Penguin UK

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• She glanced across to where Tilly and her brand new husband were posing for photographs, Tilly fluttering a fan coquettishly in front of her face. 'Unfortunately I didn't realise there was a French Revolutionary theme.' 'The Marie-Antoinette thing?' said Dexter. 'Well at least we know there'll be cake.

  David Nicholls

  Husband, Cake, Fans

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• How is it that one woman is…enough…for three men?” “I don’t know.” “She must be a very talented courtesan.” “Callie.” “Well, that was what she was. Wasn’t it?” “Yes.” “How very fascinating!” She smiled brightly. “I’ve never met a courtesan, you know.” “I could have surmised as such.” “She looked just as I imagined they did! Well, she was rather prettier.” Ralston’s eyes darted around the room as though he was looking for the quickest escape route. “Callie. Wouldn’t you rather gamble than talk about courtesans?

  Sarah MacLean

  Eye, Men, Three

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• You should totally get implants," she said admiringly in the mirror. I shake my head. "I don't yet know what I'm going to do with my life, Diane. But I'm hoping being shaped like a barbell could only be a hindrance.

  Emma McLaughlin

  Mirrors, Should, Said

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• Don't tell me what I'm doing; I don't want to know.

  Federico Fellini

  Ignorance, Want, Willful Ignorance

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• I'm an amalgamation of what I've needed to be. Part scholar, part rebel, part nobleman, part Mistborn, and part soldier. Sometimes I don't even know myself. I had a devil of a time getting all those pieces to work together. And, just when I'm starting to get it figured out, the world up and ends on me.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Soldier, Devil, Together

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.1970, Macmillan

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• About halfway through I broke down crying, which I hadn't expected. I was a little ashamed, but only a little;it was her, you see, and she never taxed me with the times that I slipped from the way I thought a man should be...the way I thought I should be, at any rate. A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God's creatures, and one without must be among the most miserable, I think, the only true blessing of their lives that they don't know how poorly off they are.

  Stephen King

  Blessing, Men, Thinking

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• It is helpful to know the proper way to behave, so one can decide whether or not to be proper.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Way, Helpful, Behave

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• Come to me all who are weary and heavy burden.." Go to the throne, not the phone. The people on the other end aren't qualified to fix your problems, they don't know what they're doing either!!! ~ -Joyce Meyers

  Joyce Meyer

  Phones, People, Thrones

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• Do you know the feeling, when your heart is so hurt, that you could feel the blood dripping?

  Lady Gaga

  Love, Life, Happiness

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• As a matter of fact she does not know to this day if those words were spoken, or if he only caught her, wound his arms around her, held her so tightly, with such continual, changing pressures that it seemed more than two arms were needed, that she was surrounded by him, his body strong and light, demanding and renouncing all at once, as if he was telling her she was wrong to give up on him, everything was possible, but then again that she was not wrong, he meant to stam himself on her and go.

  Alice Munro

  Strong, Giving Up, Passion

  "Passion" by Alice Munro, www.newyorker.com. March 22, 2004.

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• This is a world where everybody’s gotta do something. Ya know, somebody laid down this rule that everybody’s gotta do something, they gotta be something. You know, a dentist, a glider pilot, a narc, a janitor, a preacher, all that . . . Sometimes I just get tired of thinking of all the things that I don’t wanna do. All the things that I don’t wanna be. Places I don’t wanna go, like India, like getting my teeth cleaned. Save the whale, all that, I don’t understand that . . .

  Charles Bukowski

  Tired, Thinking, Whales

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• Buddha had said: "Each of us is a God. Each of us knows all. We need only open our minds to hear our own wisdom.

  Dan Brown

  Mind, Needs, Said

  Dan Brown (2009). “Angels & Demons - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.408, Simon and Schuster

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• I know this simple fact to be true, for I myself have abandoned people who did not want me to go, and I myself have been abandoned by those whom I begged to stay.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Simple, People, Want

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.366, A&C Black

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