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• I just believed it easily, the way you might believe and in fact remember that you once had another set of teeth, now vanished but real in spite of that. Until one day, one day when I may even have been in my teens, I knew with a dim sort of hole in my insides that now I didn't believe it anymore.

  Alice Munro

  Real, Believe, One Day

  Alice Munro (2012). “Dear Life”, p.270, Random House

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• Somehow the killing of the giant spider, all alone by himself in the dark without the help of the wizard or the dwarves or of anyone else, made a great difference to Mr. Baggins. He felt a different person, and much fiercer and bolder in spite of an empty stomach, as he wiped his sword on the grass and put it back into its sheath.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Dark, Dwarves, Differences

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.63, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I didn't feel sad or happy. I didn't feel proud or ashamed. I only felt that in spite of all the things I'd done wrong, in getting myself here, I'd done right.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Done, Proud, Ashamed

  Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found”, p.168, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I was half asleep but I smiled. In spite of all his irritating qualities, I couldn't help liking a man who despised a fictional character with such passion.

  David Benioff

  Passion, Character, Men

  David Benioff (2008). “City of Thieves: A Novel”, p.71, Penguin

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• I'm not asking you to forgive me. I'll never understand or forgive myself. And if a bullet gets me, so help me, I'll laugh at myself for being an idiot. There's one thing I do know... and that is that I love you, Scarlett. In spite of you and me and the whole silly world going to pieces around us, I love you. Because we're alike. Bad lots, both of us. Selfish and shrewd. But able to look things in the eyes as we call them by their right names.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Selfish, Silly, Love You

  "Fictional character: Rhett". "Gone with the Wind", 1939.

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• There are some things too dreadful to be revealed, and it is even more dreadful how, in spite of our better instincts,we long to know about them.

  Barbara Pym

  Long, Instinct, Knows

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• God wants to use you in spite of your weaknesses. Of God chose to use perfect people only, He’d have no one to use

  Joel Osteen

  People, Perfect, Weakness

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• She's been conned, ruined, left for dead, and she's not going to forgive any of it. She will soldier on, if only out of spite.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Soldier, Forgiving, Ruined

  Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

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• I still believe in man in spite of man. I believe in language even though it has been wounded, deformed, and perverted by the enemies of mankind. And I continue to cling to words because it is up to us to transform them into instruments of comprehension rather than contempt. It is up to us to choose whether we wish to use them to curse or to heal, to wound or to console.

  Elie Wiesel

  Inspirational, Sympathy, Believe

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Open Heart”, p.73, Schocken

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• And so I rehabilitate myself - staying up late this Friday night in spite of vowing to go to bed early, because it is more important to capture moments like this, keen shifts in mood, sudden veering of direction - than to lose it in slumber.

  Sylvia Plath

  Friday, Night, Important

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.153, Anchor

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• I don't believe in God. But sitting there, in a room full of those who feel otherwise, I realize that I do believe in people. In their strength to help each other, and to thrive in spite of the odds, I believe that the extraordinary trumps the ordinary, any day. I believe that having something to hope for -- even if it's just a better tomorrow -- is the most powerful drug on this planet.

  Jodi Picoult

  Powerful, Believe, Odds

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.412, Simon and Schuster

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• But Hazael only said, "I brought you a present." Liraz took the flower, looked at it, and then a Hazael, expressionless. And then she ate it. She chewed the flower and swallowed it. "Hmm," said Hazael. "Not the usual response." "Oh, do you give flowers often?" "Yes," he said. He probably did. Hazael had a way of enjoying life in spite of the many restrictions they lived under, being soldiers, and worse, being Misbegotten. "I hope it wasn't poisonous," he said lightly. Liraz just shrugged. "There are worse ways to die.

  Laini Taylor

  Flower, Giving, Enjoy Life

  Laini Taylor (2015). “The Complete Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.467, Hachette UK

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• I made lasagna for dinner," Tamsyn called out. "That work for you?" He continued to look at her, as if he'd drink her up with his eyes. "Anything is fine." "Maybe I shouldn't waste my lasagna on you, then." Tamsyn grabbed a container from the cooling unit. "How about some cardboard instead?" Brenna found herself amused in spite of the blood that continued to scent the air and the taut expectation that stretched between her and Judd. Lips twitching, she waited for his response. "Cardboard has no nutritional value." Utterly toneless. "Lasagna would be a better choice.

  Nalini Singh

  Eye, Air, Blood

  Nalini Singh (2012). “Nalini Singh: The Psy-Changeling Series”, p.852, Penguin

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• To affirm a person is to see the good in them that they cannot see in themselves and to repeat it in spite of appearances to the contrary. Please, this is not some Pollyanna optimism that is blind to the reality of evil, but rather like a fine radar system that is tuned in to the true, the good, and the beautiful.

  Brennan Manning

  Beautiful, Reality, Evil

  Brennan Manning (2009). “The Furious Longing of God”, p.59, David C Cook

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• And on the last day, the bad days become so difficult to recall, because one way or another, she had made a life here, just as I had. The town was paper, but the memories were not. All the things I’d done here, all the love and pity and compassion and violence and spite, kept welling up inside me.

  John Green

  Memories, Bad Day, Compassion

  John Green (2010). “Paper Towns”, p.156, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• My death could, in fact, save him. If it can't, no matter. It's enough to die of spite. To punish Haymitch, who, of all the people in this rotting world, has turned Peeta and me into pieces in his Games. I trusted him. I put what was precious in Haymitch's hands. And he has betrayed me.

  Suzanne Collins

  Hands, Games, People

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.389, Scholastic Inc.

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• A blessed thing it is to have a friend; one human soul whom we can trust utterly; who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults; who will speak the honest truth to us, while the world flatters us to our face, and laughs at us behind our back; who will give us counsel and reproof in a day of prosperity and self-conceit; but who, again, will comfort and encourage us in days of difficulty and sorrow, when the world leaves us alone to fight our own battle as we can.

  Charles Kingsley

  Blessed, Fighting, Self

  Charles Kingsley (1881). “The Works of Charles Kingsley”

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• He once thought it himself, that he might die with grief: for his wife, his daughters, his sisters, his father and master the cardinal. But pulse, obdurate, keeps its rhythm. You think you cannot keep breathing, but your ribcage has other ideas, rising and falling, emitting sighs. You must thrive in spite of yourself; and so that you may do it, God takes out your heart of flesh, and gives you a heart of stone.

  Hilary Mantel

  Daughter, Father, Fall

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• Here are the things I know for sure: When you think you're right, you are most likely wrong. Things that break - be they bones, hearts, or promises - can be put back together but will never really be whole. And, in spite of what I said, you can miss a person you've never known. I learn this over and over again.

  Jodi Picoult

  Heart, Thinking, Missing

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.492, Simon and Schuster

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• I am especially grateful that I have been able to keep my own style over the decades, in spite of the many changes that have taken place in the world of fashion and in its business.

  Valentino Garavani

  Fashion, Taken, Grateful

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• Appreciation is the breath of life to the creative artist, and in spite of modern conditions, there is enough abroad to sustain him. But his name is now legion; he competes with the dead as well as the living; and the rewards and honours seem attenuated by division.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Appreciation, Artist, Names

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• He loves nature in spite of what it did to him.

  Forrest Tucker

  Sarcastic, Nature, Sarcasm

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• The art of dying graciously is nowhere advertised, in spite of the fact that its market potential is great.

  Milton Mayer

  Death, Art, Dying

  Milton Mayer (1972). “If Men Were Angels”

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• Nothing that results in human progress is achieved with unanimous consent. Those that are enlightened before the others are condemned to pursue that light in spite of the others.

  Christopher Columbus

  Life, Motivational, Light

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• As professor of global peace studies at the International Islamic University of Malaysia I am committed to the ending of war also through criminalization of war, an approach that has not been sufficiently used in spite of the UN Charter outlawing war - with too many loopholes used buy aggressive countries.

  Johan Galtung

  Country, War, Islamic

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