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• You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Dream, Lying, Sleep

  Jorge Luis Borges, Andrew Hurley (2004). “Aleph and other stories”, Penguin Classics

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• and I get refill number three or four and the wine is making my bones loose and it's giving my hair a red sheen and my breasts are blooming and my eyes feel sultry and wise and the dress is water.

  Aimee Bender

  Wise, Wine, Eye

  Aimee Bender (2009). “Willful Creatures”, p.31, Anchor

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• Okay. I wish for world peace,” Weetzie said. “I am sorry,” the genie said. “I cant grant that wish. Its out of my league.” “Then I wish for an infinite number of wishes!” Those people on fairy tales never thought of that. “People in fairy tales wish for that all the time,” the genie said. “They arent stupid. It just isnt in the records because I cant grant that type of wish.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Sorry, Stupid, People

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• First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure.

  Douglas Adams

  Technology, Typewriters, Discovery

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• So scared of getting older I'm only good at being young So I play the numbers game to find a way to say that life has just begun.

  John Mayer

  Games, Play, Getting Older

  Song: Stop This Train, Album: Continuum, 2006

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• Civilised life, you know, is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willingly. The trouble is we forget after a while that they are illusions and we are deeply shocked when reality is torn down around us.

  J. G. Ballard

  Reality, Forget, Trouble

  "The Benign Catastrophist". Interview with Susie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. September 06, 2003.

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• The voice of Love seemed to call to me, but it was a wrong number.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Humorous, Wrong Number, Voice

  P.G. Wodehouse (2012). “The World of Jeeves: (Jeeves & Wooster)”, p.569, Random House

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• She was happy, and perfectly in line with the tradition of those women they used to call "ruined," "fallen," feckless, bitches in heat, ravished dolls, sweet sluts, instant princesses, hot numbers, great lays, succulent morsels, everybody's darlings . . .

  Jean Genet

  Sweet, Princess, Dolls

  Jean Genet (1994). “Querelle”, p.84, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go, I think. Nine more years. Two years and I'm dead. The power of numbers is never more evident than when we use them to speculate on the time of our dying.

  Don DeLillo

  Death, Thinking, Years

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.115, Pan Macmillan

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• Asking the head I have now to explain its own thinking is as pointless as dialing your own telephone number on your own telephone: Either way, you get an engaged signal. Or your own answer message, if you have that kind of phone system.

  Nick Hornby

  Thinking, Phones, Asking

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• A family of ten children will be always called a fine family, where there are heads and arms and legs enough for the number.

  Jane Austen

  Children, Legs, Arms

  Jane Austen (1833). “Northanger abbey [followed by] Persuasion”, p.1

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• The world is full of bastards, the number increasing rapidly the further one gets from Missoula, Montana.

  Norman Maclean

  Montana, World

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• Ordinarily my mom just sunk deeper into her corner of the couch and ignored it. She had succesfully ignored a quarter of a century of entropy and decay, had sat peacefully crunching popcorn and drinking soda while the house fell down around us. If I had to guess the number of books she read during that time, I would place the number at somewhere in the neighborhood of forty thousand.

  Haven Kimmel

  Mom, Drinking, Book

  Haven Kimmel (2002). “A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana”, p.163, Broadway Books

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• If you're 50 years old or younger, give every book about 50 pages before you decide to commit yourself to reading it, or give it up. If you're over 50, which is when time gets shorter, subtract your age from 100 - the result is the number of pages you should read before deciding whether or not to quit. If you're 100 or over you get to judge the book by its cover, despite the dangers in doing so.

  Nancy Pearl

  Book, Reading, Years

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• It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Life, Book, Small Numbers

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)”, p.8373, Delphi Classics

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• It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination.

  Douglas Adams

  Love, Life, Relationship

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”, p.93, Pan Macmillan

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• I'll be your number one with a bullet.

  Pete Wentz

  Bullets

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• We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Life, Positive, Leadership

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.55, Beacon Press

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• And now each night, I count the stars. And each night I get the same number. And when the stars won't come to be counted, I count the holes they leave.

  Amiri Baraka

  Stars, Night, Holes

  Amiri Baraka, “Preface to a Twenty Volume SuICIDe Note”

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• Let's sum up: an unknown number of enemies with unknown capabilities, supported by a gang of madmen, packs of attack animals, and superhumanly intelligent pocket change.

  Jim Butcher

  Animal, Intelligent, Enemy

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.2105, Penguin

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• Habits are formed by the repetition of particular acts. They are strengthened by an increase in the number of repeated acts. Habits are also weakened or broken, and contrary habits are formed by the repetition of contrary acts.

  Mortimer Adler

  Broken, Habit, Increase

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• A game: say something. Close your eyes and say something. Anything, a number, a name. Like this (she closes her eyes): Two, two what? Two women. What do they look like? Wearing black. Where are they? In a park. . . . And then, what are they doing? Try it, it's so easy, why don't you want to play? You know, that's how I talk to myself when I'm alone, I tell myself all kinds of stories. And not only silly stories: actually, I live this way altogether.

  Andre Breton

  Silly, Eye, Names

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• To square the records, however, it should be said that if the Calvinist does not rise as high, he usually stays up longer. He places more emphasis on the Holy Scriptures which never change, while his opposite number (as the newspapers say) tends to judge his spiritual condition by the state of his feelings, which change constantly. This may be the reason that so many Calvinistic churches remain orthodox for centuries, at least in doctrine, while many churches of the Arminian persuasion often go liberal in one generation.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Spiritual, Squares, Opposites

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• Perhaps if we saw what was ahead of us, and glimpsed the follies, and misfortunes that would befall us later on, we would all stay in our mother's wombs, and then there would be nobody in the world but a great number of very fat, very irritated women.

  Daniel Handler

  Mother, Women, Would Be

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• He thought of the number of girls and women she had seen marry, how many homes with children in them she had seen grow up around her, how she had contentedly pursued her own lone quite path-for him. ~ Stephen speaking of Rachael

  Charles Dickens

  Girl, Children, Growing Up

  Charles Dickens (2001). “Hard Times”, p.61, Courier Corporation

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