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• I let my face go blank and nodded slowly. "Yes.The trolls.Back. With me. Cannot form.Complete sentences." I shook my head. "Yeah,so not happening." He considered me,annoyed and at a loss for what to do next."I don't kill humans." "Me niether!See,common ground already.

  Kiersten White

  Loss, Annoyed, Next

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• Humans live in a pit of cheating, exploiting, hurting, incarcerating. Every time, the species wastes some part of what it could be. This waste is poisonous.

  David Mitchell

  Cheating, Hurt, Pits

  David Mitchell (2007). “Ghostwritten”, p.163, Vintage

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• That seems to be crossing some kind of line," I say. :So anything goes?" They both stare at me- Beetee with doubt, Gale with hostility. "I guess there isn't a rule book for what might be unacceptable to do to another human being.

  Suzanne Collins

  Book, Doubt, Anything Goes

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.186, Scholastic Inc.

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• Human lives are too short to waste in trivialities.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Waste, Too Short, Triviality

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2002). “Circus of the Damned: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.210, Penguin

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• Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility, or indifference, or sheer helplessness.

  Honore de Balzac

  Humility, Anti Bullying, Suffering

  Honore de Balzac, Pierre F. Limouzy (1999). “CliffsNotes on Balzac's Pere Goriot”, p.7, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We will paste upon the curled pages words Like charming and romantic and sentimental Forgetting that charming is witchcraft Romantic is love And sentiment is what makes us human

  Emilie Autumn

  Pages, Sentimental, Forget

  Song: The Music I Heard Once

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• You were so near death that ghosts crowded around you, weeping silver tears, waiting for you with such smiles. You humans, you know, whoever built you sewed irony into your sinews.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Waiting, Tears, Irony

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.313, Macmillan

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• Humans don't exist on the same level as immortals. They can't even be hurt by our weapons. But you,Percy - you are part god,part human.You live in both worlds.You can be harmed by both,and you can affect both. That's what makes heroes so special.

  Rick Riordan

  Hurt, Hero, Special

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Sea of Monsters”, Disney-Hyperion

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• Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it -- namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

  Mark Twain

  Boys, Men, Order

  Mark Twain (1992). “Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn”, p.14, Wordsworth Editions

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• All war presupposes human weakness and seeks to exploit it.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Weakness, Exploits

  Carl von Clausewitz (2008). “On War”, p.256, Princeton University Press

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• There is no insurmountable solitude. All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are. And we must pass through solitude and difficulty, isolation and silence in order to reach forth to the enchanted place where we can dance our clumsy dance and sing our sorrowful song - but in this dance or in this song there are fulfilled the most ancient rites of our conscience in the awareness of being human and of believing in a common destiny.

  Pablo Neruda

  Song, Believe, Destiny

  "Towards the Splendid City". Pablo Neruda's Nobel lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 13, 1971.

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• fanaticism is the only way to put an end to the doubts that constantly trouble the human soul.

  Paulo Coelho

  Soul, Doubt, Way

  Paulo Coelho (2009). “The Zahir: A Novel of Obsession”, p.24, Harper Collins

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• Sometimes I’ve even wished there was a human pause button, where you could choose some point in your life where you could stay always.

  Deb Caletti

  Buttons, Sometimes, Pauses

  Deb Caletti (2012). “Stay”, Simon and Schuster

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• The battle we are fighting is not against a particular group. It is against human nature - or at least what it has become.

  Veronica Roth

  Fighting, Battle, Groups

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• The universe, which is not merely the stars and the moon and the planets, flowers, grass and trees, but other people, has evolved no terms for your existence, has made no room for you, and if love will not swing wide the gates, no other power will or can. And if one despairs-- as who has not?-- of human love, God's love alone is left.

  James A. Baldwin

  Stars, Flower, Moon

  "Letter from a Region in My Mind" by James Baldwin, www.newyorker.com. November 17, 1962.

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• Humans were built to look back; that's why we have that swivel joint in our necks

  Stephen King

  Looks, Joints, Necks

  Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• I told him they built a statue of Schultz, and then he said that a monument is cold comfort to a dead man, and then I said that the statue was built not for Schultz, but for us--to remind us how to be human.

  John Green

  Men, Comfort, Cold

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• As ministers we ought to speak of God. We are human, however, and so cannot speak of God. We ought therefore to recognize both our obligation and our inability and by that very recognition give glory to God

  Karl Barth

  Giving, Inability, Recognition

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• why human beings despise what is beautiful and good, and seek to destroy the things they need the most

  David Mitchell

  Beautiful, Needs, Despise

  David Mitchell (2007). “Number9Dream: A Novel”, p.209, Random House

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• There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an increase in wisdom, operating in your chief character or characters. Even trashy bestsellers show people changing. When a fictional work fails to show change, when it merely indicates that human character is set, stony, unregenerable, then you are out of field of the novel and into that of the fable or the allegory. - from the introduction of the 1986 Norton edition

  Anthony Burgess

  Writing, Character, People

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• Joseph Obomsawin, the elder I lived with there, says that those who turn to animals do so because humans have let them down.

  Jodi Picoult

  Animal, Turns, Elders

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• To be a man, to have been born without knowing it or wanting it, to be thrown into the ocean of existence, to be obliged to swim, to exist; to have an identity; to resist the pressure and shocks from the outside and the unforeseen and unforeseeable acts - one's own and those of others - which so often exceed one's capacities? And what is more, to endure one's own thoughts about all this: in a word, to be human.

  Ivo Andric

  Ocean, Men, Knowing

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• I need dating advice. Fast.” Ash arched a single brow at that. “I’m useless. I’ve never been on one.” The three human men turned to gape at him. “What?” Ash asked them defensively. Nick started laughing. “Oh man, this is priceless. Don’t tell me the great Acheron is a virgin?” Ash gave him a droll look. “Yeah, Nick. I’m lily-white.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Men, White, Laughing

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Night Play”, p.117, Macmillan

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• The most dangerous and wonderful creature alive is the human.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Alive, Wonderful, Dangerous

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• The human mind is like a fertile ground were seed are continually being planted. The seeds are opinions, ideas, and concepts. You plant a seed, a thought grows, and it grows. The word is like a seed and the human mind is so fertile!

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Ideas, Mind, Opinion

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