“We need never be ashamed of our tears.”
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

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“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

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"We can't actually do anything about who we are, can we? We're completely at the mercy of our pasts, aren't we, and we didn't have a hand in creating our pasts."
- Everything Like Before by Kjell Askildsen

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“He wondered whether in fact, he had always been an outsider in the family, and whether he had so placed himself, or whether his parents and sisters had so elected him.”
- The Elected Member by Bernice Rubens

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“Solitude produces originality, bold & astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportionate, the absurd, and the forbidden.”
- Death in Venice by Thomas Mann

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“Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.”
- Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

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“Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples.”
- Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson

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“The beginning is the most important part of the work.”
- The Republic by Plato

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“Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.”
- The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

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“A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune..."
- The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

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"He thinks she is a vase of darkness; if he tips her up, black light will spill out."
- Black Venus by Angela Carter

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“People see what they wish to see. And in most cases, what they are told that they see.”
- The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

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“Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
- Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf

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“His sadness was of the kind that is patient and without hope.”
- So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell

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“It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.”
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

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“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”
- The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

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“One reads alone, even in another's presence.”
- If On a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino

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“I mostly feel restless. Like I’m waiting for real life to begin, and I’m just putting in time, watching everything fall apart until things make sense again.”
- Recipe for a Perfect Wife by Karma Brown

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“How empty is theory in the presence of fact!”
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

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“Mediocrities flock to any movement which will indulge their self-pity and their self-righteousness, for without a Movement the mediocrity is on the slide into terminal melancholia.”
- The Armies of the Night by Norman Mailer

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