“The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life’s essential unfairness.”
- The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford

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“You're always begging things to love you," he said, "as if you were a beggar for love. Even the flowers, you have to fawn on them--”
- Sons and Lovers by DH Lawrence

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“But now, having removed the layer of words from things, now that he’d lost the language, he was finally standing in the calm profundity of the mystery.”
- The Apple in the Dark by Clarice Lispector

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“I don't ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside me there'll always be the person I am tonight”
- Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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I humbly ask to be allowed to exist, I humbly beg for a little happiness, an act of grace, I ask to be allowed to suffer less..."
- Too Much of Life by Clarice Lispector

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“I pulled the blanket tighter, my cape of denial.”
- Sister of Mine by Laurie Petrou

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"The summer is gone, and never can it return. There will never be any summer any more, and I am weary of everything… I am alone."
- Selected Poems and Prose by Edward Thomas

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“Violence is born of the desire to escape oneself.”
- The Bell by Iris Murdoch

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“One sad thing about this world is that the acts that take the most out of you are usually the ones that people will never know about.”
- Celestial Navigation by Anne Tyler

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“If we worry about the little things all the time, we run the risk of missing the bigger things.”
- Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune

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"On the single strand of wire strung to bring our house electricity, grackles and starlings neatly punctuated an invisible sentence."
- Of the Farm by John Updike

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“There's things that happen in a person's life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there's no forgetting them."
- Mutiny on the Bounty by John Boyne

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“Saying no can be ten times harder than saying yes, but it makes you feel a hundred times better.”
- Mrs England by Stacey Halls

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“There’s the big advantage of backwardness. By the time the latest ideas reach Chicago, they’re worn thin and easy to see through.”
- The Dean's December by Saul Bellow

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“It is difficult for people of advanced years to start remembering they must die. It is best to form the habit while young."
- Memento Mori by Muriel Spark

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"Lies and tricks, like ghosts, could be expressions of suffering."
- The Haunting of Alma Fielding by Kate Summerscale

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“Fear is always biding its time, waiting for an opportunity to assure us of its dominance”
- One of the Good Guys by Araminta Hall

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“I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me...”
- The Aleph by Jorge Luis Borges

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“If you care about something you have to protect it – If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.”
- A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

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“It’s possible to feel the horror of something and to accept it all at the same time. How else could we cope with being alive?”
- Sundial by Catriona Ward

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