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• These were our bedtime stories. Tales that haunted our parents and made them laugh at the same time. We never understood them until we were fully grown and they became our sole inheritance.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Laughing, Parent, Inheritance

  FaceBook post by Edwidge Danticat from Apr 16, 2011

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• Are you happy in your misery? Resting peaceful in desolation? It’s the final tie that binds us The sole source of my consolation" “blue

  Gayle Forman

  Blue, Ties, Peaceful

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.99, Penguin

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• L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle. "It means that love is the most powerful force in the world. That love can do anything.

  Cassandra Clare

  Powerful, Moving, Mean

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1454, Simon and Schuster

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• There is supercomputer somewhere in the Nevada desert whose sole function is to count the number of times that I have said the following, because it is unquantifiable by human minds at this point, but this time it’s really true: I should have stayed home.

  David Rakoff

  Regret, Home, Numbers

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• You have been called selfish for the courage of acting on your own judgement and bearing sole responsibility for your own life. You have been called arrogant for your independent mind. You have been called cruel for your unyielding integrity. You have been calle anti social for the vision that made you venture upon undiscovered roads.

  Ayn Rand

  Integrity, Selfish, Independent

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.76, Penguin

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• What becomes of a man who acquires a beautiful woman, with her 'beauty' his sole target? He sabotages himself. He has gained no friend, no ally, no mutual trust: She knows quite well why she has been chosen. He has succeeded in buying something: the esteem of other men who find such an acquisition impressive.

  Naomi Wolf

  Beautiful, Men, No Friends

  "The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women". Book by Naomi Wolf, October 24, 1991.

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• But do you understand, I cry to him, do you understand that if you have the guillotine in the forefront, and with such glee, it's for the sole reason that cutting heads off is the easiest thing, and having an idea is difficult!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Cutting, Ideas, Glee

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• I had a microscopic eye for the blemish, for the grain of ugliness which to me constituted the sole beauty of the object.

  Henry Miller

  Eye, Grain, Objects

  Henry Miller (1961). “Tropic of Capricorn”, Grove/Atlantic

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• Together, we looked down at the tiny house, the sole thing on this vast, flat surface. Like the only person living on the moon. It could be either lonely or peaceful, depending on how you looked at it. "It's a start," I said.

  Sarah Dessen

  Lonely, Moon, House

  Sarah Dessen (2011). “What Happened to Goodbye”, p.89, Penguin

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• Oh, gentlemen, perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything. Granted, granted I'm a babbler, a harmless, irksome babbler, as we all are. But what's to be done if the sole and express purpose of every intelligent man is babble--that is, a deliberate pouring from empty into void.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Intelligent, Gentleman

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• But with man the case is otherwise, in that when logic leads to any humiliating conclusion, the sole effect is to discredit logic.

  James Branch Cabell

  Men, Logic, Cases

  James Branch Cabell (2008). “Between Dawn and Sunrise”, p.14, Wildside Press LLC

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• In modern times, if the sole measure of what’s out there flows from your five senses then a precarious life awaits you.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Flow, Five Senses, Modern

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.30, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The sole way to save oneself is to save others. Or to struggle to save others -even that is sufficient.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Struggle, Way, Oneself

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• Start with the notion that yours is the sole responsibility unless there's powerful evidence to the contrary

  Julian Barnes

  Powerful, Responsibility, Evidence

  Julian Barnes (2011). “The Sense of an Ending”, p.104, Random House

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• I have always struggled, with the sole intention of ceasing to struggle. Result: zero.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Zero, Struggle, Intention

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• I am proud of my heart alone, it is the sole source of everything, all our strenght, happiness & misery. All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Heart, Strenght, Proud

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1949). “The Sorrows of Young Werther”

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• When Isaiah predicted that spears would become pruning hooks, that's a reference to cultivating. Pruning and trimming and growing and paying close attention to the plants and whether they're getting enough water and if their roots are deep enough. Soil under the fingernails, grapes being trampled under bare feet, fingers sticky from handling fresh fruit. It's that green stripe you get around the sole of your shoes when you mow the lawn. Life in the age to come. Earthy.

  Rob Bell

  Shoes, Roots, Feet

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• Oh yes. You’ve caught me. I confess. My sole purpose in life is to gleefully, willfully, maniacally destroy all of your precious chrome babies.

  Jennifer Estep

  Baby, Purpose, Life Is

  Jennifer Estep (2012). “Widow's Web”, p.290, Simon and Schuster

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• There should be no bitterness or hate where the sole thought is the welfare of the United States of America. No man can occupy the office of President without realizing that he is President of all the people.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Hate, Men, America

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• ... the more I learned, the more conscious did I become of the fact that I was ridiculous. So that for me my years of hard work at the university seem in the end to have existed for the sole purpose of demonstrating and proving to me, the more deeply engrossed I became in my studies, that I was an utterly absurd person

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Hard Work, Years, Purpose

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• I am not worthy of my suffering. A great sentence. It suggests not only that suffering is the basis of the self, its sole indubitable ontological proof, but also that it is the one feeling most worthy of respect; the value of all values.

  Milan Kundera

  Self, Feelings, Suffering

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• Man's life comes from God: it is his image and imprint, as sharing in his breath of life. God therefore is the sole Lord of this life: Man cannot do with it as he wills.

  Pope John Paul II

  Men, Catholic, Lord

  Pope John Paul II (1996). “The Encyclicals of John Paul II”, Our Sunday Visitor (IN)

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• The sole justification of teaching, of the school itself, is that the student comes out of it able to do something he could not do before. I say do and not know, because knowledge that doesn't lead to doing something new or doing something better is not knowledge at all.

  Jacques Barzun

  Teaching, Learning, School

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• The crisis of the church is not at its deepest level a crisis of authority, or a crisis of dogmatic theology. It is a crisis of powerlessness in which our sole recourse is to call on the help and inward power of the Holy Spirit.

  James K. Baxter

  Christian, Church, Inward

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• As a guiding principle I believe that every poem must be its own sole freshly created universe, and therefore have no belief n 'tradition' or a common myth-kitty or casual allusions in poems to other poems or poets, which last I find unpleasantly like the talk of literary understrappers letting you see they know the right people.

  Philip Larkin

  Believe, Guiding Principles, People

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