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• It comes out so quietly that I have to ask her to repeat it: “It’s just that I thought maybe you were married to me.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Married, Asks

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• ...the characters in my books all resemble each other. They live, with minor variations, the same moments, the same perils, and when I speak of them, my language, which is inspired by them, repeats the same poems in the same tone.

  Jean Genet

  Book, Character, Variation

  Jean Genet, Bernard Frechtman (1994). “Funeral Rites”, p.97, Grove Press

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• It may be well to repeat here the saying that old men talk of what they have done, young men of what they are doing, and fools of what they expect to do. The Negro race has a rather large share of the last mentioned class.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Men, Race, Class

  Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.118, Book Tree

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• I may repeat 'Do as you would be done by' till I am black in the face, but I cannot really carry it out till I love my neighbor as myself: and I cannot learn to love my neighbor as myself till I learn to love God;and I cannot learn to love God except by learning to obey him.

  C. S. Lewis

  Black, Would Be, Done

  C.S. Lewis (1960). “Mere Christianity”

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• There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns hidden by patterns. Patterns within patterns. If you watch close, history does nothing but repeat itself. What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher. what we can't understand we call nonsense. What we can't read we call gibberish. There is no free will. There are no variables.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Doe, Watches, Variables

  Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

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• Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another s soul.

  James Joyce

  Love, Life, Ocean

  James Joyce (1992). “Poems and Exiles”, ePenguin

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• Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it.

  Daniel Handler

  Past, Doomed

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• Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly.

  Alan Lightman

  Circles, Bending, World

  Alan Lightman (2011). “Einstein's Dreams”, p.10, Vintage

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• Maybe your history just repeats and repeats until it batters you enough to snap the seams that hold you together

  David Levithan

  Together, Enough, Snaps

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List”, p.86, Egmont UK

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• When I go biking, I repeat a mantra of the day's sensations: bright sun, blue sky, warm breeze, blue jay's call, ice melting and so on. This helps me transcend the traffic, ignore the clamorings of work, leave all the mind theaters behind and focus on nature instead. I still must abide by the rules of the road, of biking, of gravity. But I am mentally far away from civilization. The world is breaking someone else's heart.

  Diane Ackerman

  Heart, Blue, Ice

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• I must, then, repeat continually that we are forever sundered - and yet, while I breathe and think, I must love him.' - Jane Eyre

  Charlotte Bronte

  Thinking, Forever, Breathe

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.225, Simon and Schuster

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• I've got news for Mr. Santayana: we're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Past, News, Alive

  "Bluebeard". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, p. 82, 1987.

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• I was listening," the king said, aggrieved. "I closed my eyes to listen better." "What did you hear?" "I'm not sure," he said." That's why I was listening so closely. I may have to ask the baron to repeat some parts of his report on his grain tax." "I am sure you can arrange an appointment." "I am sure I can too.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Kings, Eye, Listening

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• As long as you have any floor space at all, you have room for books! Just make two stacks of books the same height, place them three or four feet apart, lay a board across them, and repeat. Viola! Bookshelves!

  Jan Karon

  Book, Two, Feet

  Jan Karon (1998). “Out to Canaan”, p.187, Penguin

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• The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly - it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Truth, Yield, Media Control

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• Why cover the same ground again? ... It goes against my grain to repeat a tale told once, and told so clearly.

  Homer

  Tales, Grain

  Homer (1997). “The Odyssey”, p.429, Penguin

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• I am not sad, he would repeat to himself over and over, I am not sad. As if he might one day convince himself. Or fool himself. Or convince others -- The only thing worse than being sad is for others to know that you are sad.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Being Sad, One Day, Might

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.47, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly? Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it. To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Fashion, Beach, Lying

  W. Somerset Maugham (2013). “The Essential W. Somerset Maugham Collection”, p.1312, eBookIt.com

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• But the most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly and with unflagging attention. It must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over. Here, as so often in this world, persistence is the first and most important requirement for success.

  Adolf Hitler

  Persistence, Yield, Mind

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You must know nothing before you can learn something, and be empty before you can be filled. Is not the emptiness of the bowl what makes it useful? As for laws, a parrot can repeat them word for word. Their spirit is something else again. As for governing, one must first be lowest before being highest.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Law, Firsts, Spirit

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• Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted; it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in which instinct has learned nothing from experience.

  George Santayana

  Change, Children, Persistence

  George Santayana (2011). “The Life of Reason: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense”, p.172, MIT Press

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• I don't always understand other people's motives. I will repeat that for my own benefit, if you don't mind. I don't always understand other people's motives.

  Elaine Dundy

  People, Mind, Benefits

  Elaine Dundy (2010). “The Dud Avocado”, p.63, New York Review of Books

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• Each time history repeats itself, the price goes up.

  Ronald Wright

  Inspirational, History Repeats Itself, Historian

  Ronald Wright (2010). “A Short History Of Progress”, p.107, Canongate Books

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• The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.

  John Burroughs

  Life, Spiritual, Thinking

  JOHN BURROUGHS (1917). “STUDIES IN NATURE AND LITERATURE”

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• It requires the feminine temperament to repeat the same thing three times with unabated zest.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Zest, Three, Feminine

  W. Somerset Maugham (2012). “The Moon and Sixpence”, p.36, Courier Corporation

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