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Paulo Coelho quote: "People tend to help others just so that they can feel are..."
People tend to help others just so that they can feel are better than they really are. Paulo Coelho
Why do I have a sense of impending disaster? (He reflects) Sonders is after my niece and has discovered the secret address where I am sending her to the safe keeping of my sister-in-law Miss Blumenblatt, who has never laid eyes on him, or, for that matter, on Marie either since she was a baby—while I have to leave my business in the charge of my assistant and an apprentice, and follow my new servant, whom I haven't had time to introduce to anyone, to town to join the parade and take my fiance... Tom Stoppard
A very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper. Those who can barely live, and who live perforce in a very small, and generally very inferior, society, may well be illiberal and cross. Jane Austen
(...)There’s the cab, Hopkins, and you can remove your man. If you want me for the trial, my address and that of Watson will be somewhere in Norway –I’ll send particulars later. Arthur Conan Doyle
You can't possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that. Oscar Wilde
They've got something they do it with, I think it's called a mocracy, and it means everyone in the whole country can say who the new Tyrant is. One man ... one vet. ... Everyone has ... the vet. Except for women, of course. And children. And criminals. And slaves. And stupid people. And people of foreign extraction. And people disapproved of for, er, various reasons. And lots of other people. But everyone apart from them. It's a very enlightened civilization. Terry Prachett
My apartment's only about a block away."Isn't that handy."Fate," he countered as he took a seat on the sofa and made himself at home. "Fantasic, isn't it?"One day very soon, I'm going to tell you what you can do with that fate of yours. Nora Roberts
A. Was I ill? Have I got well? Who was my doctor? Can you tell? Oh, my memory is rotten! B. Only now you're truly well. Those are well who have forgotten. Friedrich Nietzsche
Instruction in world history in the so-called high schools is even today in a very sorry condition. Few teachers understand that the study of history can never be to learn historical dates and events by heart and recite them by rote; that what matters is not whether the child knows exactly when this battle or that was fought, when a general was born, or even when a monarch (usually a very insignificant one) came into the crown of his forefathers. No, by the living God, this is very... Adolf Hitler
Anton Chekhov quote: "What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea..."
What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself. Anton Chekhov
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quote: "You can lose your way groping among the shadows of the past."
You can lose your way groping among the shadows of the past. Louis-Ferdinand Celine
why should I seek to change, what has been so precious to me for so long! you can never show better than as your own natural self Charles Dickens
What a fuss people make about fidelity!" exclaimed Lord Henry. "Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say. Oscar Wilde
This is all my identification, my birth certificate, my everything. You can be Shannon McFarland from now on. My career. The ninety-degree attention. It's yours. All of it. Everything. I hope it's enough for you. It's everything I have left. Chuck Palahniuk
Arthur Miller quote: "Just remember, kid, you can quicker get back a million dollars..."
Just remember, kid, you can quicker get back a million dollars that was stole than a word that you gave away. Arthur Miller

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