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• Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses a revolt that can become fruitful

  Albert Camus

  Steps, Accepting, Dead Ends

  Albert Camus (2012). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”, p.346, Vintage

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• And why should he interest himself at all in my moral and intellectual capacities: what is it to him what I think and feel?' I asked myself. And my heart throbbed in answer to the question.

  Anne Bronte

  Heart, Thinking, Intellectual

  Anne Bronte (2012). “Agnes Grey”, p.101, Courier Corporation

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• You can't escape what you are, but you also should know what you could be. Why you're fighting.

  Pittacus Lore

  Fighting, Knows

  Pittacus Lore (2012). “I Am Number Four: The Lost Files: The Legacies”, p.107, Penguin UK

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• If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me — nothing to make my friends proud of my memory — but I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered.

  John Keats

  Memories, Principles, Proud

  Letter to Fanny Brawne, ca. Feb. 1820

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• His version of 'real' love isn't sufficient for me, I don't think anyone should settle for so little. It wasn't love - not in the true sense. On my part, it was neediness, insecurity, dependence, habit - desperate to feel loved by a man who was often ambivalent towards me. 

  Freya North

  Real, Men, Thinking

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• --I lifted one foot from the brackish water, and the bunny slippers were soaked and drooped pathetically. Even the fangs seemed robbed of any charm. "Don't worry," I told it. "Someone will pay for your suffering. Heavily. With screaming." I felt I should repeat it for the other slipper, in case there should be any bad feelings between the two. One should never create tension between ones's footwear. --POV is Myrnin, page 221

  Rachel Caine

  Two, Feet, Worry

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• You have many fine qualities that I admire. But you are out of time. You should have been born a century ago, when values such as yours meant something.

  Jasper Fforde

  Should Have, Quality, Century

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• I got to give mom credit for how she handled it.She didn't try to pry and get all the details. All she said was that I should try to do "the right thing" because it's our choices that make us who we are. I figure that's pretty decent advice. But I'm still not 100% sure what I'm going to do tomorrow.

  Jeff Kinney

  Mom, Giving, Advice

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• I've been having a lot of trouble sleeping as we all should. I dunno. You don't live that long. It doesn't matter.

  Louis C. K.

  Life, Sleep, Insomnia

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• No one should be surprised at the difficulty of faith, if there is some part of his life where he is consciously resisting or disobeying the commandment of Jesus. Is there some part of your life which you are refusing to surrender at his behest, some sinful passion, maybe, or some animosity, some hope, perhaps your ambition or your reason? ... How can you hope to enter into communion with him when at some point in your life you are running away from him?

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Running, Jesus, Passion

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• I always considered myself a loner. I mean, not like a poor-me, Byron-esque, I-should-have-brought-a-swimming-buddy loner. I mean the sort of person who doesn’t feel too upset about the prospect of a weekend spent seeing no one, and reading good books on the couch. It wasn’t like I was a people hater or anything. I enjoyed activities and the company of friends. But they were a side dish. I always thought I would be happy without them.

  Jim Butcher

  Book, Reading, Mean

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• Any woman can face the world alone, but why should we have to?

  N.K. Jemisin

  World, Faces

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• The politicized sponsors of this pseudoscientific nonsense should be ashamed to live, let alone die. If you want to take part in the “war” against cancer, and other terrible maladies, too, then join the battle against their lethal stupidity.

  Christopher Hitchens

  War, Cancer, Stupidity

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Mortality”, p.26, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• It is agreed that little girls should have a different physical education than little boys, but it is not admitted how much of the difference is counseled by the conviction that little girls should not look like little boys.

  Germaine Greer

  Girl, Boys, Should Have

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• What is bad? What is good? What should one love, what hate? Why live, and what am I? What is lie,what is death? What power rules over everything?" he asked himself. And there was no answer to any of these questions except one, which was not logical and was not at all an answer to these questions. This answer was: "You will die--and everything will end. You will die and learn everything--or stop asking.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Hate, Lying, Asking

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• We feel lonely now and then and long for friends and think we should be quite different and happier if we found a friend of whom we might say: “He is the one.” But you, too, will begin to learn that there is much self-deception behind this longing; if we yielded too much to it, it would lead us from the road.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Lonely, Thinking, Self

  Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.1113, Delphi Classics

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• Every book should begin with attractive endpapers. Preferably in a dark colour: dark red or dark blue, depending on the binding. When you open the book it's like going to the theatre. First you see the curtain. Then it's pulled aside and the show begins.

  Cornelia Funke

  Book, Dark, Blue

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.60, Scholastic Inc.

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• When the universe is ephemeral, one can easily feel that human existence is meaningless. Why should I do anything at all? On the other hand it is tempting to try and make the best of it. I'm here, anyway. The imagination won't cope if I try to picture where I'd otherwise be.

  Erlend Loe

  Hands, Imagination, Trying

  Erlend Loe (2011). “Naïve. Super”, p.49, Canongate Books

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• I laugh shakily. ‘You’re a little scary, Four.’ ‘Do me a favor,’ he says, ‘and don’t call me that.’ ‘What should I call you, then?’ ‘Nothing.’ He takes his hand from my face. ‘Yet.

  Veronica Roth

  Hands, Laughing, Scary

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• Sometimes, I think one should only live in the present. The past is only a heavy burden to carry with you. And yet... it's so hard to let them go... to forget... to move ahead.

  Danielle Steel

  Moving, Past, Thinking

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• A woman should never, never, never be financially dependent to anyone, especially a man, because the minute you were dependent, you could be abused.

  Sue Grafton

  Men, Minutes, Dependent

  Sue Grafton (2011). “D is for Deadbeat”, p.73, Pan Macmillan

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• All the same, I should like it all plain and clear," said he obstinately, putting on his business manner (usually reserved for people who tried to borrow money off him), and doing his best to appear wise and prudent and professional and live up to Gandalf's recommendation. "Also I should like to know about risks, out-of-pocket expenses, time required and remuneration, and so forth"--by which he meant: "What am I going to get out of it ? and am I going to come back alive?

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Wise, People, Risk

  J. R. R. Tolkien (2011). “The Hobbit (Enhanced Edition)”, p.21, HarperCollins UK

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• And guys don't get attached, guys don't give themselves over completely, and guys lie. That's why they should be handled with great trepidation, not trusted, and held at arm's length whenever possible.

  Sarah Dessen

  Lying, Giving, Guy

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.97, Penguin

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• Like pleasure, beauty should be savored and enjoyed

  P. C. Cast

  Pleasure, Enjoyed

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• I meditated on love and reasoned it out. I realized what is wrong with us. Men fall in love for the first time. And what do they fall in love with? ...They fall in love with a woman. They start at the wrong end of love. They begin at the climax. Can you wonder it is so miserable? Do you know how men should love? A tree. A rock. A cloud.

  Carson McCullers

  Falling In Love, Men, Clouds

  Carson McCullers (2012). “The Ballad of the Sad Café”, p.133, Penguin UK

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