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• Vienna, to me it was the tuning fork for the entire world. Saying the word Vienna was like striking a tuning fork and then listening to find what tone it called forth in the person I was talking to. It was how I tested people. If there was no response, this was not the kind of person I liked. Vienna wasn't just a city, it was a tone that either one carries forever in one's soul or one does not. It was the most beautiful thing in my life. I was poor, but I was not alone, because I had a friend.

  Sándor Márai

  Beautiful, Talking, Cities

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• Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.

  Joseph Addison

  Jealousy, Pain, Men

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd (1811). “The Spectator”, p.356

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• Was life always like that? she wondered. A game of hide and seek in which you only occasionally found the person you wanted to be?

  Maud Hart Lovelace

  Games, Found, Wanted

  Maud Hart Lovelace (2011). “Betsy and the Great World/Betsy's Wedding: Betsy-Tacy Series”, p.22, Harper Collins

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• Find your true path. It’s so easy to become someone we don’t want to be, without even realizing it’s happening. We are created by the choices we make every day. And if we take action in order to please some authority figure, we’ll suddenly wake up down the road and say, “This isn’t me. I never wanted to be this person.

  Richard Carlson

  Order, Choices, Wake Up

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• Do you know what constitutes a great poet? He is a person without shame, incapable of blushing. Ordinary fools have moments when they go off by themselves and blush with shame; not so the great poet.... If you really have to quote someone, quote a geographer; that way you won't give yourself away. (p 44)

  Knut Hamsun

  Giving, Ordinary, Way

  Knut Hamsun (2011). “Mysteries”, p.33, Souvenir Press

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• Don't we all deserve forgiveness? I hope we do; I believe we do. Forgiveness says as much about the character of the person bestowing it as the person receiving it. Learning to forgive may be the most difficult of human acts,and the closest thing to divinity, whatever you decide that is.

  Justin Cronin

  Believe, Character, Forgiving

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• Is it not enough that we cannot make one another happy, must we also rob one another of the pleasures that any heart may permit itself now and then? And name me a person who in a bad mood will be decent enough to hide it, to bear it alone, without destroying the joy around him. Is it not rather an inner dissatisfaction with our own unworthiness, a dislike of ourselves that is always associated with envy aggravated by foolish conceit? We see people happy and not made happy by us, and that is unbearable.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Heart, Names, People

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• There is no person without a world.

  Anne Carson

  World

  Anne Carson (1998). “Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse”, Knopf

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• Anyone who expects a person to change something as private and personal as who they hold in their arms at night needs to change their own judgmental attitude.

  Alex Sanchez

  Attitude, Night, Arms

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• I would give the world to have one more person for whom I would lay down my life.

  Julia Quinn

  Giving, World, Lays

  Julia Quinn (2005). “It's in his kiss”

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• I would argue that a truly developed country would be beyond Presidents and Kings. In a world with some semblance of equality, each liberal-minded woman, each gay person, and indeed almost every person could be their own President. In a world of equals, what real service does a ruler provide?

  Isaac Asimov

  Country, Kings, Real

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• Imagine being sentient but not alive. Seeing and even knowing, but not alive. Just looking out. Recognizing but not being alive. A person can die and still go on. Sometimes what looks out at you from a person's eyes maybe died back in childhood.

  Philip K. Dick

  Eye, Knowing, Childhood

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “A Scanner Darkly”, p.252, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There's Only so much emotional super glue in a person's soul, that everything just stays broken.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Emotional, Broken, Soul

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2005). “Incubus Dreams: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.137, Penguin

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• I used to listen to it all the time when I was little and thinking about grown-up things. I would go to my bedroom window and stare at my reflection in the glass and the trees behind it and just listen to the song for hours. I decided then that when I met someone I thought was as beautiful as the song, I should give it to that person. And I didn’t mean beautiful on the outside. I meant beautiful in all ways.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Beautiful, Song, Mean

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• Stop!" Narcissus got to his feet. "This is not right! This person is obviously not awesome, so he must be..." He struggled for the right words. It had probably been a long time since he'd talked about anything other than himself. "He must be tricking us." Apparently Narcissus wasn't completely stupid.

  Rick Riordan

  Stupid, Feet, Long

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• First think of the person who lives in disguise, Who deals in secrets and tells naught but lies. Next, tell me what's always the last thing to mend, The middle of middle and the end of end? And finally give me the sound often heard During the search for a hard-to-find word. Now string them together, and answer me this, Which creature would you be unwilling to kiss?

  J. K. Rowling

  Lying, Kissing, Thinking

  J. K. Rowling, “Sphinx's RIDDLe”

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• I'm not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.

  Orson Welles

  Joy, Kind, Happy Person

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• It is not necessarily at home that we best encounter our true selves. The furniture insists that we cannot change because it does not; the domestic setting keeps us tethered to the person we are in ordinary life, who may not be who we essentially are.

  Alain de Botton

  Home, Self, Encounters

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• Because when something happens, she's the person I want to tell. The most basic indicator of love.

  David Levithan

  Want, Indicators, Happens

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.131, Egmont UK

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• It was psychological trick called empathic listening. You say what the person is feeling so they feel understood.

  John Green

  Feelings, Listening, Psychological

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.101, A&C Black

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• It still amazes him how they could have been misled by her personality in Year Eleven. It's what depression does to a person, it changes them completely.

  Melina Marchetta

  Years, Personality, Doe

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• There's always a price you pay when you lie. Once you introduce a lie into a relationship, even for the best of intentions, it is always there. Whenever you’re with that person again, that lie is in the room too. It sits on your shoulder. Good lie or bad lie, it's in the room with you forever now. It's your constant companion.

  Harlan Coben

  Lying, Forever, Pay

  Harlan Coben (2012). “Seconds Away (Book Two): A Mickey Bolitar Novel”, p.146, Penguin

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• You know, in Fairyland-Above they said that the underworld was full of devils and dragons. But it isn’t so at all! Folk are just folk, wherever you go, and it’s only a nasty sort of person who thinks a body’s a devil just because they come from another country and have different notions. It’s wild and quick and bold down here, but I like wild things and quick things and bold things, too.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Country, Thinking, Dragons

  Catherynne M. Valente (2012). “The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There”, p.247, Macmillan

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• Given the reality of unintended parenthood and parental unhappiness, one would think that women and men who make the decision not to have children - who are deliberate and thoughtful about the choice to bring another person into the world - would be seen as less selfish than those who unthinkingly have children. Yet the stigma remains.

  Jessica Valenti

  Children, Selfish, Thoughtful

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• Remembering now all those farewells (fake farewells, worked-up farewells), Irena thinks: a person who messes up her goodbyes shouldn’t expect much from her re-unions.

  Milan Kundera

  Goodbye, Farewell, Thinking

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