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• Here we find further argument for Gotagga’s supposition that the world is round. How else could all men stand higher than their brothers?

  R. Scott Bakker

  Brother, Men, Higher

  R. Scott Bakker (2008). “The Thousandfold Thought: The Prince of Nothing, Book Three (The Prince of Nothing)”, p.60, The Overlook Press

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• Do you know that I am afraid that good people do a great deal of harm in this world? Certainly the greatest harm they do is that they make badness of such extraordinary importance.

  Oscar Wilde

  People, Harm, Badness

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “The Plays of Oscar Wilde”, p.168, Wordsworth Editions

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• People get mad Annabel. Its not the end of the world.

  Sarah Dessen

  People, Mad, Ends

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Just Listen”, p.346, Penguin

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• It is not so much light that falls over the world extended by your body its suffocating snow, as brightness, pouring itself out of you, as if you were burning inside. Under your skin the moon is alive.

  Pablo Neruda

  Fall, Moon, Light

  Pablo Neruda, “Ode To A Naked Beauty”

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• Magic: it was what happened when the mind met the world, and the mind won for a change.

  Lev Grossman

  Magic, Mind, Mets

  Lev Grossman (2015). “The Magicians Trilogy”, p.482, Penguin

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• People who think they're free in this world just haven't come to the end of their leash yet.

  Michael Parenti

  Thinking, People, Ends

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• If only I had thought of a Kodak! I could have flashed that glimpse of the Under-world in a second, and examined it at leisure.

  H. G. Wells

  Glimpse, Leisure, Kodak

  H.G. Wells (2014). “The Time Machine”, p.97, Diderot Publishing

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• I was completely astonished by the beauty of nature. Our eyes see just a small fraction of the light in the world. It is a trick to make a colored world, which does not exist outside of human beings.

  Albert Hofmann

  Eye, Light, Doe

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• What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone? How else can we put ourselves in harmonious relation with the great verities and consolations of the infinite and the eternal? And I avow my faith that we are marching towards better days. Humanity will not be cast down. We are going on swinging bravely forward along the grand high road and already behind the distant mountains is the promise of the sun.

  Winston Churchill

  Life, Humanity, Promise

  "Unemployment". Winston Churchill's speech at Kinnaird Hall in Dundee, Scotland (October 10, 1908), as quoted in Winston Churchill "Liberalism and the Social Problem" (p. 87), 1909.

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• He's seeing my soul, my fears, my fragility, my inability to deal with a world which i pretend to master, but about which I know nothing

  Paulo Coelho

  Soul, Inability, Fragility

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• Me and my needs were driving my mother away. Me and my needs retreated to my closet, disappeared into fairy tales. I started making up a world where my needs wouldn´t exist at all.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Mother, Needs, Driving

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• Planning complex, beautiful meals and investing one's heart and time in their preparation is the opposite of self-indulgence. Kitchen-based family gatherings are process-oriented, cooperative, and in the best of worlds, nourishing and soulful. A lot of calories get used up before anyone sits down to consume. But more importantly, a lot of talk happens first, news exchanged, secrets revealed across generations, paths cleared with a touch on the arm. I have given and received some of my life's most important hugs with those big oven-mitt potholders on both hands.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Beautiful, Heart, Self

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.288, Faber & Faber

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• God, it was good. Comforting and stimulating at the same time. Absolute world-class pheromones. I wished I could take his jacket home with me. Not him, just the jacket.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Home, Class, Comforting

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.66, St. Martin's Press

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• President Kennedy’s assassination, less than two weeks ago, has struck the world dumb. It’s like no one wants to be the first to break the silence. Nothing seems important.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Two, President Kennedy's Assassination, Silence

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.360, Penguin

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• The world around us is an increasingly hostile and sinful place. Occasionally that splashes onto us, and perhaps, in the case of a few of you, it may be nearly drowning you. To anyone struggling under the burden of sin, I say again with the Prophet Joseph that God has ‘a forgiving disposition’ (Lectures on Faith, 42). You can change. You can be helped. You can be made whole—whatever the problem.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Struggle, Forgiving, May

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• And so, while the rest of the world went on unaware, drinking their coffee, reading the sports page, and picking up their dry cleaning, I leaned forward and kissed Dexter, making a choice that would change everything. Maybe somewhere there was a ripple, a bit of jump, some small shift in the universe, barely noticeable. I didn’t feel it then. I felt only him kissing me back, easing me into the sunlight as I lost myself in the taste of him and felt the world go on, just as it always had, all around us.

  Sarah Dessen

  Sports, Drinking, Coffee

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.85, Penguin

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• Sometimes the closest-held secrets in the world can be pried out by the right question at the right time.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Secret, Sometimes, Right Time

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.153, St. Martin's Press

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• You must not think of time as a quantity, a period, a measure. Look at the sky," Gwynneth said. "The moon has now slipped away to another night, into another world. It was not the time it was here that you remember, Faolan, but rather the luminescence of the air, the blue shadows cast by the trees in its light. It was not the length of the time but the quality of the moon's light that you felt and remember." Gwynneth paused. "It is the value, the quality that lives on.

  Kathryn Lasky

  Moon, Night, Thinking

  Kathryn Lasky (2011). “Wolves of the Beyond”, p.113, Scholastic Inc.

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• Children were vehicles for passing things along. These things could be kingdoms, rich wedding gifts, stories, grudges, blood feuds. Through children, alliances were forged; through children, wrongs were avenged. To have a child was to set loose a force in the world.

  Margaret Atwood

  Children, Blood, Alliances

  Margaret Atwood (2003). “The Penelopiad”, p.24, Canongate Books

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• There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Eye, Yellow, Color

  Jorge Luis Borges, María Kodama (1985). “Aterstallaren”, E P Dutton

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• A whole big, giant world full of men. Men with blue eyes. Brown eyes. Green eyes. And indescribable shades in between. Tall men. Short men. Skinny men. Built men. And all combinations thereof. Nice men (so I've heard, but never really seen). Mean men. Decent men, indecent. And who knows which is the best kind to have, to hold, to love? I'd say, with so many men in the world, it would pay to sample a few. Scratch that. More than a few. Lots and lots. And then a few more. And maybe, after years of research, you might find one worth not throwing back. But hey, the fun is in the fishing.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Fun, Nice, Eye

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• The place I like best in this world is the kitchen. No matter where it is, no matter what kind, if it’s a kitchen, if it’s a place where they make food, it’s fine with me. Ideally it should be well broken in. Lots of tea towels, dry and immaculate. Where tile catching the light (ting! Ting!)” (p. 3).

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Light, Broken, Kitchen

  Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus (1979). “Three Plays”, p.3, Grove Press

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• A book had always been a door to another world... a world much more interesting and fantastical than reality. But she had finally discovered that life could be even more wonderful than fantasy. And that love could fill the real world with magic.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Real, Book, Doors

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• I have always liked the idea of Superman because I have always liked the idea that there is one person in the world who doesn’t do bad things. And that there is one person in the world who is able to fly.

  Douglas Coupland

  Ideas, Able, Persons

  Douglas Coupland (2012). “Life After God”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• Of course I'm trying to trick you! That's the way of the world, Baudelaires. Everyone runs around with their secrets and their schemes, trying to outwit everyone else.

  Daniel Handler

  Running, Secret, Trying

  "The End". Book by Daniel Handler, 2006.

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