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bye-bye love, as in songs. All alone now. It was so sad. Why did such things have to disintegrate like that? Why did longing and desire, and friendliness and goodwill too, have to shatter into pieces? Why did they have to be so thoroughfully over? I could make myself cry even more by repeating the key word: love, alone, sad, over. I did it on purpose. Margaret Atwood
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Strong and independent? I’m neither. I’m just being pushed along by reality, whether I like it or not. Haruki Murakami
Jonathan Swift (November 30, 1667? October 19, 1745) was an Irish cleric, satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for Whigs then for Tories), and poet, famous for works like Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal, A Journal to Stella, The Drapier's Letters, The Battle of the Books, and A Tale of a Tub. Swift is probably the foremost prose satirist in the English language, although he is less well known for his poetry. Swift published all of his works under pseudonyms? such as Lemuel... Jonathan Swift
Here a few poor and stunted flowers stood with drooping heads, like a convent of consumptive girls, waiting for a ray of sunlight to dry out their leaves already half-rotten with the damp. Theophile Gautier
Man's gift of seeing resemblances is nothing other than a rudiment of the powerful compulsion in former times to become and behave like something else. Walter Benjamin
There had always been something to worry him ever since he could remember, always something that distracted him in the pursuit of beauty. For he did pursue beauty, and, therefore, Margaret's speeches did flutter away from him like birds. E. M. Forster
Being against evil doesn't make you good. Tonight I was against it and then I was evil myself. I could feel it coming just like a tide... I just want to destroy them. But when you start taking pleasure in it you are awfully close to the thing you're fighting. Ernest Hemingway
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Love, hope, and self-esteem, like clouds depart. And come, for some uncertain moments lent. Man were immortal and omnipotent, Didst thou, unknown and awful as thou art, Keep with thy glorious train firm state within his heart. Percy Bysshe Shelley
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He whom the flame of jealousy encompasses, will at last, like the scorpion, turn the poisoned sting against himself. Friedrich Nietzsche
Haruki Murakami quote: "They were each like a mirror for the other, reflecting the..."
They were each like a mirror for the other, reflecting the changes in themselves. Haruki Murakami
Literature is open to everybody. I refuse to allow you, Beadle though you are, to turn me off the grass. Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, nobolt, that you can set upon the freedom of my mind. Virginia Woolf
We live" writes Pursewarden somewhere, "lives based upon selected fictions. Our view of reality is conditioned by our position in space and time - not by our personalities as we like to think. Thus every interpretation of reality is based upon a unique position. Two paces east or west and the whole picture is changed. Lawrence Durrell
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They don't like the thought of someone else making demands on the person whom they see as belonging entirely to them. Jodi Picoult

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