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Jean-Paul Sartre quote: "He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency..."
He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end. Jean-Paul Sartre
did you not call this a glorious expedition? and wherefore was it glorious? not because the way was smooth and placid as a southern sea, but because it was full of dangers and terror, because at every new incident your fortitude was to be called forth and your courage exhibited, because danger and death surrounded it, and these you were brave to overcome. for this was it a glorious , for this was it an honorable undertaking Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
I was very strange, for I knew we were both in mortal danger. Still, in that instant, I felt well. Whole. I could feel my heart racing in my chest, the blood pulsing hot and fast through my veins again. My lungs filled deep with the sweet scent that came off his skin. It was like there had never been any hole in my chest. I was perfectnot healed, but as if there had been no wound in the first place. Stephenie Meyer
Twenty years after we had left so fierce and proud, we were all right back where we had started, yoked to each other and the same old drama. Dorothy Allison
Do I dazzle you?" I voiced my curiosity impulsively, and then the words were out, and it was too late to recall them. But before I had time to too deeply regret speaking the words aloud, she answered "Frequently." And her cheeks took on a faint pink glow. I dazzled her. My silent heart swelled with a hope more intense than I could ever remember having felt before. Stephenie Meyer
Patton Oswalt quote: "If the victories we create in our heads were let loose on..."
If the victories we create in our heads were let loose on reality, the world we know would drown in blazing happiness. Patton Oswalt
Gale and I were thrown together by a mutual need to survive. Peeta and I know the other's survival means our own death. How do you side step that? Suzanne Collins
Stephenie Meyer quote: "You speak as if a war were raging."To the remains of the human..."
You speak as if a war were raging."To the remains of the human race, one is. Stephenie Meyer
Paulo Coelho quote: "For those that were never wounded by love, they will never be..."
For those that were never wounded by love, they will never be able to say: “I lived”. Because they haven’t. Paulo Coelho
I want us to be together without bothering about ourselves- to be really together because we ARE together, as if it were a phenomenon, not a thing we have to maintain by our own effort. David Herbert Lawrence
He used often to say there was only one Road; that it was like a great river: its springs were at every doorstep, and every path was its tributary. 'It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door,' he used to say. 'You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to. J. R. R. Tolkien
...think I none so simple would say that Aesop lied in the tales of his beasts: for who thinks that Aesop writ it for actually true were well worthy to have his name chronicled among the beasts he writeth of. Philip Sidney
Listening (had there been any one to listen) from the upper rooms of the empty house only gigantic chaos streaked with lightning could have been heard tumbling and tossing, as the winds and waves disported themselves like the amorphous bulks of leviathans whose brows are pierced by no light of reason, and mounted one on top of another, and lunged and plunged in the darkness or the daylight (for night and day, month and year ran shapelessly together) in idiot games, until it seemed as if the... Virginia Woolf
Strange as my circumstances were, the terms of this debateare as old and commonplace as man; much the same inducements andalarms cast the die for any tempted and trembling sinner; and itfell out with me, as it falls with so vast a majority of myfellows, that I chose the better part and was found wanting in thestrength to keep to it. Robert Louis Stevenson
It was like the eve of a battle; the hearts beat, the eyes laughed, and they felft that the life they were perhaps going to lose, was after all, a good thing. Alexander Dumas

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