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• Oh happy pessimists! What a joy it is to them to be able to prove again and again that there is no joy.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Joy, Able, Pessimist

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1994). “Aphorisms”, Ariadne Press (CA)

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• So I left him there alone to watch history repeat the same events retold again and again on his own.

  Sarah Dessen

  Events, Watches, Repeating History

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Just Listen”, p.132, Penguin

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• But what he didn't understand was that this dreamland was preferable, walking through this life half-sleeping, everything at arm's length or farther away. I understood those mermaids. I didn't care if they sang to me. All I wanted was to block out all the human voices as they called me name again and again, pulling me upward into light, to drown.

  Sarah Dessen

  Block, Sleep, Light

  "Dreamland". Book by Sarah Dessen, September 1, 2000.

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• Don't drop him," said Peter's mother to his father. "Don't you dare drop him." She was laughing. "I will not," said his father. "I could not." For he is Peter Augustus Duchene, and he will always return to me. Again and again, Peter's father threw him up in the air. Again and again, Peter felt himself suspended in nothingness for a moment, just a moment, and then he was pulled back, returned to the sweetness of the earth and the warmth of his father's waiting arms. "See?" said his father to his mother. "Do you see how he always comes back to me?

  Kate DiCamillo

  Mother, Father, Air

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• Raven has lost deeply, again and again, and she, too, has buried herself. There are pieces of her scattered all over. Her heart is nestled next to a small set of bones buried beside a frozen river, which will emerge with the spring thaw, a skeleton ship rising out of the water”.

  Lauren Oliver

  Spring, Heart, Skeletons

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.534, Hachette UK

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• A message came from my youth of vanished days, saying, 'I wait for you among the quivering of unborn May, where smiles ripen for tears and hours ache with songs unsung.' It says, 'Come to me across the worn-out track of age, through the gates of death. For dreams fade, hopes fail, the fathered fruits of the year decay, but I am the eternal truth, and you shall meet me again and again in your voyage of life from shore to shore.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Dream, Song, Years

  Rabindranath Tagore, “Lover's Gifts XL: A Message Came”

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• To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and not to have- to want and want- how that wrung the heart, and wrung it again and again!

  Virginia Woolf

  Heart, Body, Want

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “To the Lighthouse”, p.175, Virginia Woolf

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• Not to give up under any circumstances should be the motto of our life: I shall try again and again, and I am bound to succeed. There will be obstacles, but I have to defy the obstacles.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Giving Up, Trying, Succeed

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• It's easy, at this point in my life, very easy to write a beautiful sentence that's meaningless. A lot of writers do that. But I don't want it to be meaningless. I want it to actually say what I want it to say, and so I'm thinking about it again and again and again.

  Lynne Tillman

  Beautiful, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again.

  Jackie Chan

  Children, Giving, Parent

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• If you try anything, if you try to lose weight, or to improve yourself, or to love, or to make the world a better place, you have already achieved something wonderful, before you even begin. Forget failure. If things don't work out the way you want, hold your head up high and be proud. And try again. And again. And again!

  Sarah Dessen

  Determination, Work Out, Trying

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Keeping the Moon”, p.210, Penguin

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• We who have touched war have a duty to bring the truth about war to those who have not had a direct experience of it. We are the light at the tip of the candle. It is really hot, but it has the power of shining and illuminating. If we practice mindfulness, we will know how to look deeply into the nature of war and, with our insight, wake people up so that together we can avoid repeating the same horrors again and again.

  Nhat Hanh

  War, Light, Together We Can

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• Are you angry? Punch a pillow. Was it satisfying? Not hardly. These days people are too angry for punching. What you might try is stabbing. Take an old pillow and lay it on the front lawn. Stab it with a big pointy knife. Again and again and again. Stab hard enough for the point of the knife to go into the ground. Stab until the pillow is gone and you are just stabbing the earth again and again, as if you want to kill it for continuing to spin, as if you are getting revenge for having to live on this planet day after day, alone.

  Miranda July

  Revenge, Knives, People

  "The shared patio" by Miranda July, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2007.

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• Theatre can't be done again and again and again and again - it's organic.

  Kim Cattrall

  Theatre, Done

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• When there are tiers of meaning in an ad it intrigues the audience and they look for it again and again.

  William Shatner

  Looks, Intrigue, Audience

  Adweek, Volume 48, Issues 14-26, VNU Business Publications, p. 21, 2007.

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• Wherever there is a design that is highly successful in a broad range of similar environments, it is apt to emerge again and again, independently - the phenomenon known in biology as convergent evolution. I call these designs 'good tricks.'

  Daniel Dennett

  Successful, Design, Evolution

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• Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.

  Umberto Eco

  People

  "We Like Lists Because We Don't Want to Die". Interview with Susanne Beyer and Lothar Gorris, www.spiegel.de. November 11, 2009.

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• It's not like I sit around watching my movies again and again, but I've never quite believed actors when they say they don't watch themselves.

  Kristen Stewart

  Actors, Watches

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• As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Single, Inspiration

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.27, Heron Dance Press

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• Asking what I considered an impossible salary when I didn't want to work for someone has boosted my pay again and again.

  Ethel Waters

  Salary, Asking, Want

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• Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Grieve and mourn for yourself not once or twice, but again and again.

  Morrie Schwartz

  Grieving, Mourn

  Morrie Schwartz (2011). “Morrie In His Own Words: Life Wisdom From a Remarkable Man”, p.10, Pan Macmillan

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• Writing is probably one-fifth coming up with the stuff, and four-fifths self-editing again and again and again.

  David Mitchell

  Writing, Editing, Self

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• As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'

  Marshall McLuhan

  Technology, Media, Age

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• Each time a new war is disclosed in the name of the fight of the good against evil, those who are killed are all poor. It's always the same story repeating once and again and again.

  Eduardo Galeano

  War, Fighting, Names

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