“All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belo...”
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“Don't go far off, not even for a day, because I don't know how to say it - a day is long and I will be waiting for you, as in an empty station when the trains are parked off somewhere else,...”
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“Ten lands are sooner known than one man.”
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“And medecine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love: these are what we stay alive for.”
“The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it's the small things that count. Everyone's so busy waiting in the Waiting Place. If we stopped to remember that there's such a...”
“All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.”
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“Every child's taste is different. Don't worry if they're not reading 'War and Peace' at age 12. First, build a good foundation and a positive attitude about reading by letting them pick the...”
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“There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.”
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“Aziraphale collected books. If he were totally honest with himself he would have to have admitted that his bookshop was simply somewhere to store them. He was not unusual in this. In order t...”
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“Your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.”
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“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”
“Locke sighed. 'So this is winning,' he said. 'It is,' replied Jean. 'It can go fuck itself,' said Locke.”
“Summer came. For the book thief, everything was going nicely. For me, the sky was the color of Jews. When their bodies had finished scouring for gaps in the door, their souls rose up. When t...”
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“Those who stand idle while evil descends upon another and provide no support, is just as culpable as the perpetrator.”
“It's not easy. I got lots of rejections when I first started out. If you want to write, you have to believe in yourself and not give up. You have to do your best to practice and get better.”
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“Have you ever lost yourself in a kiss? I mean pure psychedelic inebriation. Not just lustful petting but transcendental metamorphosis when you became aware that the greatness of this being w...”
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“Where there is love, there is often also hate. They can exist side by side.”
“A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no aw, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.”
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“A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?”
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“Please do not allow the wildfires in your mind to consume your awareness of this moment beyond its content. You are responsible for the mind and not the other way around.”
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“The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.”
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“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
“Even in half demon hunter clothes, Clary thought, he looked like the kind of boy who'd come over your house to pick you up for a date and be polite to your parents and nice to your pets. Jac...”
“You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because histo...”
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“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”
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“These violent delights have violent ends And in their triump die, like fire and powder Which, as they kiss, consume”
“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.”
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“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.”
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“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
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“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
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“Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.”
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“Don't be humble. You're not that great.”
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“Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right.”
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“I always have several books on the go at any one moment, so it's no good you asking 'What's on the bedside table at the moment, Emma?' because often I can't even see the table!”
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“Remember He is the artist and you are only the picture. You can't see it. So quietly submit to be painted---i.e., keep fulfilling all the obvious duties of your station (you really know quit...”
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“Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.”
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“People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets. You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. Yo...”
“But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?”
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“'But I don't want to go among mad people,' said Alice. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the cat. 'We're all mad here.'”
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“Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear, and abandoned ourselves to the bad habits of illogical...”
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“What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and...”
“Meanwhile we have learnt something, and to know is to be prepared.”
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“Love can play destructive games; one day overwhelming you with joy and euphoria and the next, destroying your life.”
“If you must change to garner the love of another, their love was never for you, but another.”
“I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgement, it takes place every day.”
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“It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring hum...”
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“No one leads the orchestra without turning his back on the crowd.”
“He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.”
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