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• The name of this book is mysterious.

  Pseudonymous Bosch

  Book, Mysterious

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• Ah... Much better" he said. "Backbiter, Luke called it. An appropriate name. Now that it is reforged comeplately, it shall indeed bite back

  Rick Riordan

  Said, Bites, Luke

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• Would you be willing to give your life to save the world if no one ever knew your name? If anonymity was the price you would have to pay for significance, would it be too great a price? To live a life of courage is not a guarantee of prestige or adulation. It only matters if you live and die fulfilling the mission you were born for.

  Erwin McManus

  Giving, Pay, Matter

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• Dissimulation, secretiveness, appear a necessity to the melancholic. He has complex, often veiled relations with others. These feelings of superiority, of inadequacy, of baffled feeling, of not being able to get what one wants, or even name it properly (or consistently) to oneself — these can be, it is felt they ought to be, masked by friendliness, or the most scrupulous manipulation.

  Susan Sontag

  Feelings, Want, Able

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• Civilizations grow by agreements and accomodations and accretions, not by repudiations. The rebels and the revolutionaries are only eddies, they keep the stream from getting stagnant but they get swept down and absorbed, they're a side issue. Quiet desperation is another name for the human condition. If revolutionaries would learn that they can't remodel society by day after tomorrow -- haven't the wisdom to and shouldn't be permitted to -- I'd have more respect for them ... Civilizations grow and change and decline -- they aren't remade.

  Wallace Stegner

  Agreement, Civilization, Issues

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• A soul of water a soul of stone. A soul by name a soul unknown. The hours unmake our flesh our bone. The Soul is all and all alone!

  Clive Barker

  Water, Soul, Flesh

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• God.
  Twice I speak it.
  I say His name in a futile attempt to understand. "But it's not your job to understand." That's me who answers. God never says anything. You think you're the only one he never answers? "Your job is to..." And I stop listening to me, because to put it bluntly, I tire me.

  Markus Zusak

  Jobs, Thinking, Listening

  "The Book Thief". Book by Markus Zusak, learning.blogs.nytimes.com. 2005.

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• I can see it, hear it, feel it, taste it - but I can never be on the inside of it with you. I cannot even be sure whether I really know what it is like. Is it 'like' my own? Or incomparable? Just as I can never know if what you see at any given moment is exactly the same as what I see. We look at a colour. We both call it red. But it is only because we have been taught to call it by that name. There is no guarantee - not ever - that we see it in the same way, that your red is my red.

  André Brink

  Looks, Guarantees, Red

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• Let tears gather in your eyes. You haven’t tears enough for what you’ve done to me. Six more mortal years, seven, eight…I might have had that shape!’ Her pointed finger flew at Madeleine, whose hands had risen to her face, whose eyes were clouded over. Her moan was almost Claudia’s name. But Claudia did not hear her. ‘Yes, that shape, I might have known what it was to walk at your side.

  Anne Rice

  Eye, Years, Your Side

  Anne Rice (1976). “Interview with the Vampire: A Novel”

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• Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven’s mouth.

  Aberjhani

  Fire, Heaven, Might

  Aberjhani (2010). “The River of Winged Dreams”, p.47, Lulu.com

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• What's the dog called?"Jason asked. "Feraclestinius Androbrelium Pathershin the Seventh." "No, I meant his entire name.

  Brandon Mull

  Dog, Jason

  Brandon Mull (2013). “Brandon Mull's Beyonders Trilogy: A World Without Heroes; Seeds of Rebellion; Chasing the Prophecy”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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• All families have their secrets, most people would never know them, but they know there are spaces, gaps where the answers should be, where someone should have sat, where someone used to be. A name that is never uttered, or uttered just once and never again. We all have our secrets.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Should Have, Space, People

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• I have let things slip, a thirty-year~old cargo boat Stubbornly hanging on to my name and address.

  Sylvia Plath

  Addresses, Hanging On, Boat

  Sylvia Plath (2010). “Ariel: The Restored Edition”, p.26, Faber & Faber

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• I do believe that his given name is something odd. Peregrine, Penrose- Piers, that's it." "He sounds like a dock." Lord Sundron put in. "Mrs. Hutchins called me a light frigate this morning," Linnet said "a dock might be just the thing for me.

  Eloisa James

  Morning, Believe, Light

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• My name is Mortimer Alexander and I am a licensed summoner." "Darn. I'd hoped you were the pizza delivery guy.

  Jana Oliver

  Guy, Delivery, Pizza

  Jana Oliver (2011). “The Demon Trapper's Daughter: A Demon Trappers Novel”, p.89, Macmillan

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• And in general, the residents of the town wondered why they all felt hollow just beneath the throat, the result of missing something they had never been able to name in the first place.

  Jodi Picoult

  Missing, Able, Firsts

  Jodi Picoult (2003). “Second Glance”, p.294, Simon and Schuster

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• Your Father in heaven knows your name and knows your circumstance. He hears your prayers. He knows your hopes and dreams, including your fears and frustrations. And He knows what you can become through faith in Him.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Dream, Prayer, Father

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• That the last two letters in her name were the first two in his, a silly thing he never mentioned to her but caused him to believe that they were bound together.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Love, Believe, Silly

  FaceBook post by Jhumpa Lahiri from Nov 01, 2013

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• It is the Land of Truth (enchanted name!), surrounded by a wide and stormy ocean, the true home of illusion, where many a fog bank and ice, that soon melts away, tempt us to believe in new lands, while constantly deceiving the adventurous mariner with vain hopes, and involving him in adventures which he can never leave, yet never bring to an end.

  Immanuel Kant

  Believe, Ocean, Home

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• He was calling it an atonic seizure because, even if he didn't know why it had happened, it was important to give it a cool name.

  Ben Aaronovitch

  Giving, Important, Calling

  Ben Aaronovitch (2011). “Moon Over Soho: The Second PC Grant Mystery”, p.213, Hachette UK

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• Who are you, Master?' he asked. 'Eh, what?' said Tom sitting up, and his eyes glinting in the gloom. 'Don't you know my name yet? That's the only answer. Tell me, who are you, alone, yourself and nameless?

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Eye, Sitting, Answers

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.101, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.

  Oscar Wilde

  People, Secrecy

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.171, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• You’re not seriously going out again, are you?” “Seriously, yeah. Bowling. Her name’s Laura. If you want more details, you’re gonna have to download the video like everybody else.

  Rachel Caine

  Details, Video, Going Out

  Rachel Caine (2006). “Glass Houses: The Morganville Vampires”, p.29, Penguin

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• Cry your grief to God. Howl to the heavens. Tear your shirt. Your hair. Your flesh. Gouge out your eyes. Carve out your heart. And what will you get from Him? Only silence. Indifference. But merely stand looking at the playbills, sighing because your name is not on them, and the devil himself appears at your elbow full of sympathy and suggestions. And that's why I did it....Because God loves us, but the devil takes an interest.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Grief, Heart, Eye

  Jennifer Donnelly (2010). “Revolution”, p.245, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• Such a caring for death, an awakening that keeps vigil over death, a conscience that looks death in the face, is another name for freedom.

  Jacques Derrida

  Caring, Looks, Awakening

  Jacques Derrida (2008). “The Gift of Death, Second Edition & Literature in Secret”, p.17, University of Chicago Press

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