“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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“We know not whom God loves nor whom He hates.”
- The Book of Marvels and Travels by John Mandeville

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“I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real
adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.”
- Dubliners by James Joyce

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"The moon paled, the river sobbed, a mental breeze bowed down the trees."
- Wake Up by Jack Kerouac

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It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.”
- Middlemarch by George Eliot

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“...humanity often prefers the familiar over the unknown...”
- Madonna in a Fur Coat by Sabahattin Ali

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“To sue to live, I find I seek to die; and, seeking death, find life.”
- Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare

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“You could tell by the way he talked, though, that he had gone to school a long time. That was probably what was wrong with him.”
- A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

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“I was full of squeamishness, which whatever else it is is a way of clinging to life, I could still care about unessential things.”
- Small Rain by Garth Greenwell

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“The wonder is that you could start life with nothing, end with nothing, and lose so much in between.”
- Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

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“Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.”
- The Iliad by Homer

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“Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.”
- The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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“Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in fight, searching the skies for dreams.”
- Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami

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“It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead.”
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

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“How did people go on with their lives as though death weren't all around them?”
- Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh

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“There is no complete life. There are only fragments. We are born to have nothing, to have it pour through our hands.”
- Light Years by James Salter

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“You can justify anything if you do it poetically enough.”
- If We Were Villains by ML Rio

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“She was alive, and seeing her like that infused me with a loneliness and indescribable longing.”
- Heaven by Mieko Kawakami

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“Whenever she was unhappy she felt herself at bay against a pitiless world, and a kind of animal secretiveness possessed her.”
- Summer by Edith Wharton

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