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• True religion should be able to respond to the dark melodies, the faulty and hideous sounds that echo from the heart of men.

  Shusaku Endo

  Heart, Dark, Men

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• Men speak of dreaming as if it were a phenomenon of night and sleep. They should know better. All results achieved by us are self-promised, and all self-promises are made in dreams awake. Dreaming is the relief of labor,the wine that sustains us in act. We learn to love labor, not for itself, but for the opportunity it furnishes for dreaming, which is the great under-monotone of real life, unheard, unnoticed, because of its constancy. Living is dreaming. Only in the graves are there no dreams.

  Lew Wallace

  Dream, Real, Wine

  Lew Wallace (2016). “Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ”, p.477, Bible Study Steps

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• The Bible says we need to love our enemies, bless our enemies. It does not say we should assume our enemies' priorities.

  David McGee

  Priorities, Enemy, Doe

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• Something else an academic education will do for you. If you go along with it any considerable distance, it will begin to give you an idea what size mind you have. What’ll fit and, maybe, what it won’t. After a while, you’ll have an idea what kind of thoughts your mind should be wearing. For one thing, it may save you an extraordinary amount of time trying on ideas that won’t suit you, aren’t becoming to you. You’ll begin to know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.

  J. D. Salinger

  Distance, Ideas, Suits You

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• There's a line in The Barretts of Wimpole Street - you know, the play - where Elizabeth Barrett is trying to work out the meaning of one of Robert Browning's poems, and she shows it to him, and he reads it and he tells her when he wrote that poem, only God and Robert Browning knew what it meant, and now only God knows. And that's how I feel about studying English. Who knows what the writer was thinking, and why should it matter? I'd rather just read for enjoyment.

  Susanna Kearsley

  Thinking, Play, Work Out

  Susanna Kearsley (2016). “The Susanna Kearsley Collection”, p.469, Allison & Busby Ltd

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• You will die a worse death if you do not leave my domain,” a voice thundered down from the third story of the old tenement. “I am a servant of the Sacred Fire, the wielder of the flame of Arnor—” “So I should call you Gandalf?

  Karen Chance

  Fire, Flames, Voice

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• Everyone knows the first rule of business is "Look good during confrontations." Or if it isn't, it should be.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Looks, Firsts, Confrontation

  Sophie Kinsella (2007). “Shopaholic & Baby”, Random House LLC

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• It's impossible to go through life unscathed. Nor should you want to. By the hurts we accumulate, we measure both our follies and our accomplishments.

  Christopher Paolini

  Hurt, Accomplishment, Inheritance

  Christopher Paolini (2012). “Inheritance Deluxe Edition (The Inheritance Cycle, Book 4)”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• See, Quentin, that’s why you should wear a cup before trying to assassinate someone.

  Mira Grant

  Trying, Cups, Quentin

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• Never in his life had occasion to ask himself, "Why are things the way they are?" Why should he bother, when the way they were was always perfect? Why are things the way they are? The question to which there is no answer, and up till then he was so blessed he didn't even know the question existed.

  Philip Roth

  Blessed, Perfect, Answers

  Philip Roth (1997). “American Pastoral”, p.78, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When two mouths, made sacred by love, draw near to each other to create, it is impossible, that above that ineffable kiss there should not be a thrill in the immense mystery of the stars.

  Victor Hugo

  Stars, Kissing, Two

  Victor Hugo (2012). “Les Miserables”, p.552, Simon and Schuster

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• The rich...should beg the poor to forgive us for the bread we bring them. Healthy people sometimes feel they need to beg forgiveness too, although there is no reason why. Maybe we simply ask forgiveness for not being born where these poor women have been born, knowing that if we lived here too, our fate might well have been the same.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Fate, Knowing, People

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• When anesthesia was developed, it was for many decades routinely withheld from women giving birth, since women were "supposed" to suffer. One of the few societies to take a contrary view was the Huichol tribe in Mexico. The Huichol believed that the pain of childbirth should be shared, so the mother would hold on to a string tied to her husband's testicles. With each painful contraction, she would give the string a yank so that the man could share the burden. Surely if such a mechanism were more widespread, injuries in childbirth would garner more attention.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Mother, Husband, Pain

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• Oh, if I had had a friend at this moment, a friend in an attic room, dreaming by candlelight and with a violin lying ready at his hand! How I should have slipped up to him in his quiet hour, noiselessly climbing the winding stair to take him by surprise, and then with talk and music we should have held heavenly festival throughout the night!

  Hermann Hesse

  Dream, Lying, Night

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.36, Macmillan

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• Boys," said Hermione Granger, "should not be allowed to love girls without asking them first! This is true in a number of ways and especially when it comes to gluing people to the ceiling!

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Girl, Boys, Numbers

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• It doesn't matter, that's the point. It doesn't matter that things don't always work exactly the way you thought they should. Moments matter. People matter, how they feel, how they connect. Who they are alone and together. All that matters, no matter how quickly the moment passes. Maybe because it passes.

  Nora Roberts

  People, Together, Matter

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• You should always judge a book by its lovers.

  Ashok K. Banker

  Book, Judging, Lovers

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• You should be thankful that dark colors suit you. Not everyone wears black well." "Why, Lady Olivia, is that a compliment?" "Not so much as a compliment to you as an insult to everyone else," she assured him. "Thanks heaven for that. I don't think I would know how to conduct myself in a world in which you offered compliments.

  Julia Quinn

  Dark, Thinking, Color

  FaceBook post by Julia Quinn from Feb 26, 2015

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• An hour or so later he received a note from Odette. Swann had left his cigarette case at her house. "If only," she wrote, "you had also forgotten your heart! I should never have let you have it back.

  Marcel Proust

  Heart, House, Forgotten

  Marcel Proust (1982). “Remembrance of Things Past: Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove”, Vintage

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• It is difficult to find anything more healthy to drink than good cold water, such as flows down to us from springs and snows of our mountains. This is the beverage we should drink. It should be our drink at all times.

  Brigham Young

  Spring, Snow, Water

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• According to one influential wing of modern secular society there are few more disreputable fates than to end up being 'like everyone else' for 'everyone else' is a category that comprises the mediocre and the conformist, the boring and the suburban. The goal of all right-thinking people should be to mark themselves off from the crowd and 'stand out' in whatever way their talents allow.

  Alain de Botton

  Fate, Thinking, Secular Society

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• rosto cupped laddybuck in one hand and grabed the back of my neck with the other pulling me in and kissing me right on the mouth. i should have punched him but his lips were soft and sweet. i will punch him next time. -beka after she realizes that rosto the piper is the new rouge

  Tamora Pierce

  Sweet, Kissing, Hands

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• Money is for doing things, my love. Don't sit on it like a hen sits on an egg. It doesn't hatch. I should know. I've made enough of it.

  Maureen Johnson

  Eggs, Hens, Enough

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• I hurt myself deeply, though at the time I had no idea how deeply. I should have learned many things from that experience, but when I look back on it, all I gained was one single, undeniable fact. That ultimately I am a person who can do evil. I never consciously tried to hurt anyone, yet good intentions notwithstanding, when necessity demanded, I could become completely self-centred, even cruel. I was the kind of person who could, using some plausible excuse, inflict on a person I cared for a wound that would never heal.

  Haruki Murakami

  Hurt, Ideas, Self

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• Toddlers can make you feel as if you have violated some archaic law in their personal Koran and you should die, infidel.

  Anne Lamott

  Law, Toddler, Feels

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