‘To be the youngest in a family is supposed to be enviable, but that is in fairy-tales; with four older brothers and an important older sister, Doone rarely had a chance to speak’.
- Thursday's Children by Rumer Godden

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“It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.”
- The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann

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“For I see that then I was still all in a state of innocence, but that innocence, once lost, is lost forever.”
- The Woman in Black by Susan Hill

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“Capture the dragon, the ancient serpent who is Satan, and send him in chains into the Abyss, that he may no longer seduce the nations.”
- The Case Against Satan by Ray Russell

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“What makes a man, without hope, cling to a few more minutes of existence?”
- The Third Man by Graham Greene

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“Time, consoler of affliction and softener of anger”
- Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens

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“Only from a capitalist viewpoint being productive is a moral virtue, if not a moral imperative. From the viewpoint of the working class, being productive simply means being exploited.”
- Caliban and the Witch by Silvia Federici

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“Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.”
- Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson

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“Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)”
- Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

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“Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some.”
- The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

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“These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
Which as they kiss consume..."
- Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

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“People are always ruining things for you.”
- The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger

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“Oh, the lengths this family would go to so as not to spoil the picture of how things were supposed to be!”
- French Braid by Anne Tyler

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“Millions of things came back to her. Atoms danced apart and massed themselves. But how did they compose what people called a life?”
- The Years by Virginia Woolf

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“We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.”
- All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

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“Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.”
- The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

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“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
- The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

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“All it comes down to is this: I feel like shit but look great.”
- American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

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“I speak my own sins; I cannot judge another. I have no tongue for it.”
- The Crucible by Arthur Miller

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“If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of.”
- The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

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