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• The Homunculi may have started the war, but we were the ones who carried it out.

  Hiromu Arakawa

  War

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• It may have been quixotic, but it was magnificent.

  James M. Barrie

  Quixotic, Magnificent, Has Beens

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.121, 谷月社

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• the ultimate aim of government is not to rule, or restrain by fear, nor to exact obedience, but to free every man from fear that he may live in all possible security... In fact the true aim of government is liberty.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Men, Liberty, Facts

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• Your own love story? Your paramour may have had lovers before you. But no one has ever loved him the way you do. No one has ever heard music. Not the way you hear it. The songs are beautiful vampires, asleep in your iPod, coming alive at night, aglow. You can have them on your hours, yours to conduct. Music shapes us and we shape it.

  Emma Forrest

  Beautiful, Song, Night

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• Not only after two or three centuries, but in a million years, life will still be as it was; life does not change, it remains for ever, following its own laws which do not concern us, or which, at any rate, you will never find out. Migrant birds, cranes for example, fly and fly, and whatever thoughts, high or low, enter their heads, they will still fly and not know why or where. They fly and will continue to fly, whatever philosophers come to life among them; they may philosophize as much as they like, only they will fly.

  Anton Chekhov

  Years, Law, Two

  Anton Chekhov (2012). “The Three Sisters”, p.23, Courier Corporation

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• The chief problem about death, incidentally, is the fear that there may be no afterlife - a depressing thought, particularly for those who bothered to shave. Also, there is the fear that there is an afterlife but no one will know where it's being held. On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily laying down.

  Woody Allen

  Depressing, Afterlife, Done

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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• You may think I'm doing this without taking the time to really think it through, and you're absolutely right. It would take me the rest of my life to think this thing through. But it's while you're thinking, while you're weighing the pros and cons, that life goes on. It passes by you while you're doing nothing. - Arthur

  Marc Levy

  Thinking, Goes On, Doing Nothing

  Marc Levy (2005). “If Only It Were True”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

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• Just Because something ends dosent mean that it's a bad thing or that someones bound to get hurt,ot that it never shold have happend in the first place or whatever. But If each step brings us to the next how can we grow if we avoid everything that can hurt us?? We pretty much have no choice but to get out there and hope for the best and who knows we may even learn a thing or two on the way

  Alyson Noel

  Hurt, Mean, Two

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• You have to wait together - for a week, for a year, for a lifetime, before the final intimate conversation may be attained ... and exhausted. So that ... That in effect was love.

  Ford Madox Ford

  Years, Intimate Conversation, Waiting

  Ford Madox Ford (1964). “Parade's End: A man could stand up”

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• The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of conscience.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Life Changing, Two, Way

  Leo Tolstoy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy (Illustrated)”, p.5496, Delphi Classics

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• I shall return, doubt it not. Such love as ours was not created to remain unfulfilled. Whatever may happen, believe and trust in me, as I shall in you, and keep the remembrance of me in your heart without sadness and without regret.

  Baroness Orczy

  Regret, Believe, Heart

  Baroness Orczy (2011). “The First Sir Percy”, p.80, House of Stratus

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• I've missed you, Ella May

  Jessica Sorensen

  Missed You, I've Missed You

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• I may be a killer," Jace said, "but I know what I am. Can you say the same?

  Cassandra Clare

  Killers, Jace, Said

  Cassandra Clare (2009). “Sample of the CITYs”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• God who gave Animals self motion beyond our understanding is without doubt able to implant other principles of motion in bodies [which] we may understand as little. Some would readily grant this may be a Spiritual one; yet a mechanical one might be showne, did not I think it better to pass it by.

  Isaac Newton

  Spiritual, Animal, Thinking

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• I made a tentative conclusion. It seemed from all of this that uppermost among human joys is the negative one of restoration: not going to the stars, but learning that one may stay where one is.

  Peter De Vries

  Stars, Joy, Negative

  Peter De Vries (2012). “The Blood of the Lamb: A Novel”, p.164, University of Chicago Press

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• Things have changed, ofcourse. There are counsellors at the ready. Kindness and understanding. Life is harder for some, we're told. Not their fault, even if the blows are purely imgainery. Felt just as keenly by the recipient, or the non recipient, as the case may be. But good use can be made of everything, if you are willing.

  Alice Munro

  Kindness, Blow, Understanding

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• Truth is one, though the sages know it as many . God is one, though different religions approach Him differently Call Him Shiva, Vishnu, Allah, Jesus or any other form of God that you believe in . Our paths may be different. Our destination is the same.

  Amish Tripathi

  Jesus, Believe, Different

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• I may not have all the time I thought I had.

  Daniel Keyes

  Daniel Keyes (2007). “Flowers for Algernon”, p.165, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The trouble with you and me, is that we don't live in the real world. We dream of fantastic things that may never happen.

  Agatha Christie

  Dream, Real, World

  Agatha Christie (1992). “Endless Night”, HarperCollins

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• Electricity was a reality in the universe when Moses led the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt. This is true of all natural laws; they have always existed but only when understood may they be used.

  Ernest Holmes

  Children, Reality, Israel

  Ernest Holmes (2012). “The Science of Mind Collection”, p.50, Penguin

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• We're not gods, Julia. We're helpers. That's all. People have called us terrible things in the past. But that was only because they didn't understand us. That understanding is for the future, a time not long from now. You may live to see it. Then perhaps you can work openly, but for now, keep your gifts to yourself. Never flaunt your abilities. Never think you hold the power of life and death. Only God has that power. When it's a person's time, nothing can save them.

  Christopher Pike

  Past, Thinking, Long

  Christopher Pike (2001). “Witch”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery. The most commonplace crime is often the most mysterious because it presents no new or special features from which deductions may be drawn. This murder would have been infinitely more difficult to unravel had the body of the victim been simply found lying in the roadway without any of those outré and sensational accompaniments which have rendered it remarkable. These strange details, far from making the case more difficult, have really had the effect of making it less so.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Mistake, Lying, Special

  Study in Scarlet (1888) ch. 7

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• Now we shall both be alone, and I shall have no way of making you understand.' 'I don't want to make it easier for you,' I said; 'I hope your heart may break; but I do understand.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Heart, Want, Way

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• Why are all reflections lovelier than what we call reality? -- not so grand or so strong, it may be, but always lovelier? Fair as is the gliding sloop on the shining sea, the wavering, trembling, unresting sail below is fairer still...All mirrors are magic mirrors. The commonest room is a room in a poem when I turn to the glass...There must be a truth involved in it, though we may but in part lay hold of the meaning.

  George MacDonald

  Strong, Reflection, Reality

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• The gods envy us. They envy us because we’re mortal, because any moment may be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.

  Brad Pitt

  Life, Beautiful, Envy

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