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If I were to be totally sincere, I would say that I do not know why I live and why I do not stop living. The answer probably lies in the irrational character of life which maintains itself without reason. Emile M. Cioran
his face, though lined, bore few traces of anxiety. But, perhaps the confidential bachelor clerks in Tellson's Bank were principally occupied with the cares of other people; and perhaps second-hand cares, like second-hand clothes, come easily off and on. Charles Dickens
I wanted to tell her that if only something were wrong with my body it would be fine, I would rather have anything wrong with my body than something wrong with my head, but the idea seemed so involved and wearisome that I didn’t say anything. I only burrowed down further in the bed. Sylvia Plath
Kurt Vonnegut quote: "Enjoy the little things in life because one day you`ll look..."
Enjoy the little things in life because one day you`ll look back and realize they were the big things. Kurt Vonnegut
But he could not renounce his infinite capacity for illusion at the very moment he needed it most... he saw fireflies where there were none. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
She'd take these random occurrences and elevate them to oracles; she'd pretend that they were enough to justify her actions. Or lack therof. Jodi Picoult
Edward Said quote: "You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you..."
You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—there has to be a limit Edward Said
That's right," said Luna encouragingly, as if they were back in the Room of Requirement and this was simply spell practice for the D.A. "That's right, Harry... come on, think of something happy..."Something happy?" he said, his voice cracked."We're all still here," she whispered, "We're still fighting. Come on, now... J. K. Rowling
Thus terminating the interview, during which both ladies had trembled very much, and been marvellously polite--certain indications that they were within an inch of a very desperate quarrel... Charles Dickens
A mountain is a strange and awful thing. In old times, without knowingso much of their strangeness and awfulness as we do, people were yetmore afraid of mountains. But then somehow they had not come to seehow beautiful they are as well as awful, and they hated them--and whatpeople hate they must fear. Now that we have learned to look at themwith admiration, perhaps we do not feel quite awe enough of them. Tome they are beautiful terrors. George MacDonald
There would be many crimes and errors which it would be beyond his power to commit, simply because they were nameless and therefore unimaginable. George Orwell
If he were around this place as a professor, he could teach 'Appropriate Behavior in Classical Greek Drama,' a course that would be over before it began. Philip Roth
He thought that they were walking there like Mickey and Minnie Mouse and that they probably appeared ridiculous to the passers-by. Ayn Rand
Am I sure that there is no mind behind our existence and no mystery anywhere in the universe? I think I am. What joy, what relief there would be, if we could declare so with complete conviction. If that were so I could wish to live for ever. How terrifying and glorious the role of man if, indeed, without guidance and without consolation he must create from his own rituals the meaning for his existence and write the rules whereby he lives. Thornton Wilder
I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up. Henry David Thoreau

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