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Above all do not forget your duty to love yourself; do not permit the fact that you have been set apart from life in a way, been prevented from participating actively in it, and that you are superfluous in the obtuse eyes of a busy world. —Letter to Kierkegaard's cousin Hans Peter, Philosopher, Søren Kierkegaard
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Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly. —100 Love Sonnets, Poet, Pablo Neruda
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One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. ——Trenchtown Rock, Songwriter, Bob Marley
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I am personally quite convinced that no matter what training or education I might have received, I could never have run a four-minute mile, discovered Gödel's theorems, composed a Beethoven quartet, or risen to any of other innumerable heights of human achievement. I feel in no way demeaned by these inadequacies. —The Chomsky Reader, Linguist, Noam Chomsky
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The very uprightness of the pines and maples asserts the ancient rectitude and vigor of nature. Our lives need the relief of such a background, where the pine flourishes and the jay still screams. —A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, Writer, Henry David Thoreau
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But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there. —Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Novelist, Roald Dahl
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When you're no longer thinking ahead, each footstep isn't just a means to an end but a unique event in itself. This leaf has jagged edges. This rock looks loose. From this place the snow is less visible, even though closer. —Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values, Writer, Robert M. Pirsig
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The question we writers are asked most often, the favorite question, is: Why do you write? I write because I have an innate need to write. I write because I can't do normal work as other people do. I write because I want to read books like the ones I write. I write because I am angry at everyone. I write because I love sitting in a room all day writing. I write because I can partake of real life only by changing it. ——Nobel Prize Lecture in Literature (2006), Writer, Orhan Pamuk
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Who can say what astonishments are hidden inside the most mundane being? —Flora & Ulysses, Novelist, Kate DiCamillo
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Do you recall that night in June Upon the Danube River; We listened to the ländler-tune, We watched the moonbeams quiver. —The Danube River, Playwright, Charles Hamilton Aide
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There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. —Catch-22, Novelist, Joseph Heller
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Maintenance is what you have to do just so you can walk out the door knowing that if you go to the market and bump into a guy who once rejected you, you won't have to hide behind a stack of canned food. —I Feel Bad About My Neck, Writer, Nora Ephron
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Architecture is the very mirror of life. You only have to cast your eyes on buildings to feel the presence of the past, the spirit of a place; they are the reflection of society. ——Conversations with I.M. Pei: Light is the Key, Journalist, Gero Von Boehm
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All children, except one, grow up. —Peter Pan, Writer, J. M. Barrie
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But especially he loved to run in the dim twilight of the summer midnights, listening to the subdued and sleepy murmurs of the forest, reading signs and sounds as a man may read a book, and seeking for the mysterious something that called—called, waking or sleeping, at all times, for him to come. —The Call of the Wild, Writer, Jack London
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I went out the kitchen to make coffee—yards of coffee. Rich, strong, bitter, boiling hot, ruthless, depraved. The life blood of tired men. —The Long Goodbye, Novelist, Raymond Chandler
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As with a wound on one's own body, it is possible to develop an intimacy with the most disturbing of things. —A Pale View of Hills, Novelist, Kazuo Ishiguro
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"I could tell you my adventures—beginning from this morning," said Alice a little timidly: "but it's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then." ——Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Writer, Lewis Carroll
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Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself ..." —The Four Loves, Novelist, C. S. Lewis
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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them. —The Picture of Dorian Gray, Novelist, Oscar Wilde
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