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• Poseidon held out his arms and gave me a hug. I realized, a little embarrassed, that I'd never actually hugged my dad before. He was warm—like a regular human—and he smelled of a salty beach and fresh sea air.

  Rick Riordan

  Beach, Dad, Sea

  Rick Riordan (2009). “Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian”, p.246, Penguin UK

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• It is strange to hear your mother talk about being human because, honestly, it's too easy to forget.

  Joe Dunthorne

  Mother, Strange, Forget

  Joe Dunthorne (2011). “Submarine”, p.321, Penguin UK

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• Of all the systems of the body - neurological, cognitive, special, sensory - the cardiological system is the most sensitive and easily disturbed. The role of society must be to shelter these systems from infection and decay, or else the future of the human race is at stake. Like a summer fruit that is protected from insect invasion, bruising, and rot by the whole mechanism of modern farming; so must we protect the heart.

  Lauren Oliver

  Summer, Heart, Race

  Lauren Oliver (2014). “Delirium: The Complete Collection: Delirium, Hana, Pandemonium, Annabel, Raven, Requiem”, p.47, Harper Collins

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• Is it not true that no two human beings understand anything whatsoever about each other, that those who consider themselves bosom friends may be utterly mistaken about their fellow and, failing to realize this sad truth throughout a lifetime, weep when they read in the newspapers about his death?

  Osamu Dazai

  Two, May, Realizing

  "No Longer Human". Book by Osamu Dazai, 1948.

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• The woods are never solitary — they are full of whispering, beckoning, friendly life. But the sea is a mighty soul, forever moaning of some great, unshareable sorrow, which shuts it up into itself for all eternity. We can never pierce its infinite mystery — we may only wander, awed and spellbound, on the outer fringe of it. The woods call to us with a hundred voices, but the sea has one only — a mighty voice.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Sea, Voice, Forever

  "Anne of Green Gables: three volumes in one".

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• Billy Pilgrim says that the Universe does not look like a lot of bright little dots to the creatures from Tralfamadore. The creatures can see where each star has been and where it is going, so that the heavens are filled with rarefied, luminous spaghetti. And Tralfamadorians don't see human beings as two-legged creatures, either. They see them as great millepedes - "with babies' legs at one end and old people's legs at the other," says Billy Pilgrim.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Baby, Stars, Two

  Kurt Vonnegut (1969). “Slaughterhouse-five: or, The children's crusade, a duty-dance with death”

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• Trout's leading robot looked like a human being, and could talk and dance and so on, and go out with girls. And nobody held it against him that he dropped jellied gasoline on people. But they found his halitosis unforgivable. But then he cleared that up, and he was welcomed to the human race.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Girl, Race, People

  KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

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• Where did love begin?What human being looked at another and saw in their face the forests and the sea? Was there a day, exhausted and weary,dragging home food, arms cut and scarred, that you saw yellow flowers and, not knowing what you did, picked them because I love you? In the fossil record of our existence, there is no trace of love. You cannot find it held in the earth's crust, waiting to be discovered. The long bones of our ancestors show nothing of their hearts.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Flower, Love You, Home

  Jeanette Winterson (2006). “Lighthousekeeping”, p.179, HMH

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• There are times in this life when a person must do or say things he doesn't want to. Human beings and chains, it is the oldest acquaintanceship in the world.

  Nadeem Aslam

  World, Want, This Life

  Nadeem Aslam (2011). “Maps for Lost Lovers”, p.176, Faber & Faber

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• Like some kind of strange vacuum cleaner I tried to console him. I recited the same old litanies that you say to people when you try to help their broken hearts, but words can't help at all. It's just the sound of another human voice that makes the only difference. There's nothing you're ever going to say that's going to make anybody happy when they're feeling shitty about losing somebody that they love.

  Richard Brautigan

  Heart, Voice, Differences

  Richard Brautigan (1995). “Revenge of the Lawn, The Abortion, So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away”, p.33, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Everyone needs help. That's the human condition.

  Max Allan Collins

  Needs, Helping, Human Condition

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• Snap judgments? I'd gotten over those about the time I was toilet trained. Swore off diapers and faith in the human experience all in one week.

  Rob Thurman

  Snap Judgment, Toilets, Diapers

  Rob Thurman (2006). “Nightlife”, p.42, Penguin

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• It was a damned good thing men couldn’t have children. Gregory took no shame in admitting that the human race would have died out generations earlier.

  Julia Quinn

  Children, Men, Race

  Julia Quinn (2006). “On the way to the wedding”

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• Egypt loved the lotus becuase it never dies. It is the same for people who are loved. Thus can something as insignificant as a name-two syllables, one high, one sweet- summon up the innumerable smiles, tears, sighs and dreams of a human life.

  Anita Diament

  Dream, Sweet, Egypt

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• the supply of the milk of human kindness was short by several gallons

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Kindness, Milk, Gallons

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• I'd like to do something to help the worst afflicted, but I can't. It's not possible to save everybody. Even heroes have their all-too-human limits.

  Darren Shan

  Hero, Limits, Helping

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• So easy to take it for granted, but this is something no normal human was made to see. The world of magic has blessed me with wonders and it's only right to stop every now and then to appreciate it.

  Darren Shan

  Blessed, Appreciate, Magic

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• The amount of violations of human rights in a country is always an inverse function of the amount of complaints about human rights violations heard from there. The greater the number of complaints being aired, the better protected are human rights in that country.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Country, Rights, Numbers

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• Of course I loved books more than people. Of course I valued "Jane Eyre" over the anonymous stranger...Of course all of Shakespeare was worth more than a human life.

  Diane Setterfield

  Book, People, Stranger

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• Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first one who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior.

  J. D. Salinger

  Confused, Firsts, Behavior

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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• People claim that love is the deepest feeling, but don't you believe it. Loneliness is the most affecting of human emotions. Nothing makes life more vivid. If you wish to live in the moment, I recommend intense loneliness.

  Seth

  Loneliness, Believe, Love Is

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• The prescription of the equality of human beings is not a description of an alleged actual equality among humans: it is a prescription of how we should treat human beings.

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Should, Treats

  Peter Singer (1986). “Applied Ethics”, p.220, Oxford University Press, USA

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• When you are born without the ordinary feelings and emotions shared by most other human beings, life looks different to you. It seems at times like a movie you’re walking through, more a spectator than a participant. There is above all a lack of empathy with most of mankind, a sense of detachment. But with detachment comes perspective. The less you care, the more you know, and the more you know the less you care.

  Boyd Rice

  Perspective, Empathy, Feelings

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• Perhaps the great renewal of the world will consist of this, that man and woman, freed of all confused feelings and desires, shall no longer seek each other as opposites, but simply as members of a family and neighbors, and will unite as human beings, in order to simply, earnestly, patiently, and jointly bear the heavy responsibility of sexuality that has been entrusted to them.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Confused, Responsibility, Men

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2010). “Letters to a Young Poet”, p.39, New World Library

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• The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Feelings, Different, Human Nature

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.45, Wordsworth Editions

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