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Of course, in a novel, people's hearts break, and they die and that is the end of it; and in a story this is very convenient. But in real life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us. Harriet Beecher Stowe
The apartment was built at the edge of a high cliff so that when you looked out the back window it seemed as if you were twelve floors up instead of four. It was very much like living on the edge of the world - a last resting place before the final big drop. Charles Bukowski
I should be very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush are, I think, all that we need. Arthur Conan Doyle
Peter S. Beagle quote: "If a man loved me, I would have talked myself into loving him,..."
If a man loved me, I would have talked myself into loving him, and I would have loved him very deeply after a while. Peter S. Beagle
The minds of human beings are not always entirely at one with the world in which they live, some people have trouble adjusting to reality, basically they're just weak, confused spirits who use words, sometimes very skillfully, to justify their cowardice. Jose Saramago
Nick Hornby quote: "I'm very good at the past. It's the present I can't understand."
I'm very good at the past. It's the present I can't understand. Nick Hornby
Science is based on experiment, on a willingness to challenge old dogma, on an openness to see the universe as it really is. Accordingly, science sometimes requires courage - at the very least the courage to question the conventional wisdom. Carl Sagan
C. S. Lewis quote: "Peter did not feel very brave; indeed, he felt he was going to..."
Peter did not feel very brave; indeed, he felt he was going to be sick. But that made no difference to what he had to do. C. S. Lewis
When you argue against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on. C. S. Lewis
But sometimes illumination comes to our rescue at the very moment when all seems lost; we have knocked at every door and they open on nothing until, at last, we stumble unconsciously against the only one through which we can enter the kingdom we have sought in vain a hundred years - and it opens. Marcel Proust
She got very tired, so tired that even her toys could no longer amuse her. You would wonder at that if I had time to describe to you one half of the toys she had. But then, you wouldn't have the toys themselves, and that makes all the difference: you can't get tired of a thing before you have it. George MacDonald
A man," said he, "must have a very good opinion of himself when he askspeople to leave their own fireside, and encounter such a day asthis, for the sake of coming to see him. He must think himself a mostagreeable fellow; I could not do such a thing. It is the greatestabsurdity--Actually snowing at this moment!--The folly of not allowingpeople to be comfortable at home--and the folly of people's not stayingcomfortably at home when they can!... Jane Austen
[A]voidance behavior is a response designed to protect the infant from behavioural disorganization. If we transfer this concept to adult life, we can see that an avoidant infant might very well develop into a person whose principal need was to find some kind of meaning and order in life which was not entirely, or even chiefly, dependent upon interpersonal relationships. Anthony Storr
Herman Hesse quote: "I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came..."
I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult? Herman Hesse
J. D. Salinger quote: "It isn't very serious, I have this tiny little tumor on the..."
It isn't very serious, I have this tiny little tumor on the brain. J. D. Salinger

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