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I've been through a lot. I've thought a lot about life, and I've spent a lot of time studying history and science.

Dan Brown

Studying History, Study

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Denial is a critical part of the human coping mechanism. Without it, we would all wake up terrified every morning about all the ways we could die. Instead, our minds block out our existential fears by focusing on stresses we can handle—like getting to work on time or paying our taxes.

Dan Brown

Morning, Block, Stress

Dan Brown (2014). “Inferno: Special Illustrated Edition (Enhanced): Featuring Robert Langdon”, p.377, Knopf

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As you know, this little grain of sand has mass. A very small mass, but mass nonetheless." And because this grain of sand has mass, it therefore exerts gravity. Again, too small to feel, but there." Now," Katherine said, "if we take trilions of these sand grains and let them attract one another to form... say, the moon, then their combined gravtiy is enough to move entire ocreans and drag the tides back and forth across our planet.

Dan Brown

Moving, Moon, Littles

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Outside, in the newly fallen darkness, the world had been transformed. The sky had become a glistening tapestry of stars.

Dan Brown

Stars, Sky, Darkness

Dan Brown (2014). “Inferno: Special Illustrated Edition (Enhanced): Featuring Robert Langdon”, p.784, Knopf

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You can point to the alleged miracles of the Bible, or any other religious text, but they are nothing but old stories fabricated by man and then exaggerated over time.

Dan Brown

Religious, Men, Miracle

Dan Brown (2010). “The Lost Symbol Illustrated edition”, p.1036, Random House

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She saved my life...and I’ve ruined hers. They sat in silence for a full minute, the air between them growing heavy, as if they both wanted to speak, and yet had nothing to say. They were strangers, after all, on a brief and bizarre journey that had just reached a fork in the road, each of them now needing to find seperate paths.

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Journey, Air, Silence

Dan Brown (2014). “Inferno: Special Illustrated Edition (Enhanced): Featuring Robert Langdon”, p.101, Knopf

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I love the gray area between right and wrong.

Dan Brown

Gray, Gray Area, Areas

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…Our sunsets have been reduced to wavelengths and frequencies. The complexities of the universe have been shredded into mathematical equations. Even our self-worth as human beings has been destroyed.

Dan Brown

Sunset, Self Worth, Mathematical Equations

Dan Brown (2005). “Angels & Demons”, p.289, Simon and Schuster

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Force a hand, the voice warned, and it will fight you. But convince a mind to think as you want it to think, and you have an ally.

Dan Brown

Fighting, Thinking, Hands

"Digital Fortress".

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Sometimes a legend that endures for centuries... endures for a reason.

Dan Brown

Everything Happens For A Reason, Legends, Lasts

Dan Brown (2010). “The Lost Symbol Illustrated edition”, p.144, Random House

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In which year did a Harvard sculler last outrow an Oxford man at Henley?" Langdon had no idea, but he could imagine only one reason the question had been asked. "Surely such a travesty has never occurred.

Dan Brown

Men, Years, Oxford

Dan Brown (2004). “The Da Vinci Code”, Doubleday Books

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The act of tattooing one's skin was a tranformative declaration of power, an announcment to the world: I am in control of my own flesh.

Dan Brown

Skins, World, Flesh

Dan Brown (2009). “The Lost Symbol: (Robert Langdon Book 3)”, p.10, Random House

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Is it not possible that we are still living in the Dark Ages, still mocking the suggestion of 'mystical' forces that we cannot see or comprehend.

Dan Brown

Dark, Age, Suggestions

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I don't read horror, ever. When I was 15, I made the mistake of reading part of 'The Exorcist.' It was the first and last horror book I've ever opened.

Dan Brown

Mistake, Book, Reading

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Why do you think the Bible has survived thousands of years of tumultuous history Why is it still here Is it because its stories are such compelling reading Of course not...but there is a reason. There is a reason Christian monks spend lifetimes attempting to decipher the Bible. There is a reason that Jewish mystics and Kabbalists pore over the Old Testament. And that reason Robert is that there exist powerful secrets hidden in the pages of this ancient book...a vast collection of untapped wisdom waiting to be unveiled.

Dan Brown

Christian, Powerful, Book

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Madness is the WHO staring into the abyss and denying it is there. Madness is an ostrich who sticks her head in the sand while a pack of hyenas closes around her. - Lanky Man with green eyes

Dan Brown

Eye, Men, Ostriches

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Religion is like language or dress. We gravitate toward the practices with which we were raised. In the end, though, we are all proclaiming the same thing. That life has meaning. That we are grateful for the power that created us.

Dan Brown

Religious, Grateful, Practice

Dan Brown (2005). “Angels & Demons”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

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My father could argue two sides of a Möbius Strip.

Dan Brown

Father, Two Sides, Arguing

"Angels & Demons - Movie Tie-In: A Novel".

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Nothing in Christianity is original.

Dan Brown

Christianity, Originals

Dan Brown (2003). “The Da Vinci Code: A Novel”

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From the Crusades, to the Inquisition, to American politics--the name of Jesus had been hijacked as an ally in all kinds of power struggles. Since the beginning of time, the ignorant had always screamed the loudest, herding the unsuspecting masses and forcing them to do their bidding. They defended their worldly desires by citing Scripture they did not understand. They celebrated their intolerance as proof of their convictions. Now, after all these years, mankind had finally managed to utterly erode everything that had once been so beautiful about Jesus.

Dan Brown

Beautiful, Jesus, Struggle

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I'm somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things you find in a Robert Langdon thriller.

Dan Brown

Ciphers, Likes, Architecture

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It is always darkest before the dawn.

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Dawn, Darkness Before The Dawn

Dan Brown (2011). “The Great Expectations School: A Rookie Year in the New Blackboard Jungle”, p.61, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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PHI is one H of a lot cooler than PI!

Dan Brown

Dan Brown (2004). “The Da Vinci Code”, Doubleday Books

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Her eyes were olive green―incisive and clear.

Dan Brown

Eye, Green, Olives

Dan Brown (2016). “The Da Vinci Code (The Young Adult Adaptation)”, p.46, Delacorte Press

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If it wasn't painfully difficult, you did it wrong!

Dan Brown

Difficult, Ifs

Dan Brown (2006). “Angels & Demons Special Illustrated Edition: A Novel”, p.195, Simon and Schuster

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