“There are four good things worth practicing. Being kind toward everything alive... Feeling happy for any creature anywhere that is happy. And remembering that any suffering is also yours.”
- Bewilderment by Richard Powers

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"It was settled by physics long ago that Nature abhors a vacuum...And that is the sole rational cause why every crocodile swallows men."
- The Crocodile and Other Stories by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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“I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line.”
- Oranges are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson

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“All thinking men are atheists.”
- A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

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“Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.”
- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

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“If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.”
- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne

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“Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself. ”
- Women in Love by DH Lawrence

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“I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.”
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

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“Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.”
- Night by Elie Wiesel

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“One half of me is yours, the other half is yours,
Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours,
And so all yours.”
- The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare

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“Death really did not matter to him but life did, and therefore the sensation he felt when they gave their decision was not a feeling of fear but of nostalgia.”
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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“Complete freedom consists of being able to do what you like, provided you also do something you like less.”
- Zeno's Conscience by Italo Svevo

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“We were as merciless and cruel as most primitives are. But we learnt at that school the private nature of cruelty; and our inborn hatred for freaks and outcasts was tempered by meeting them daily.”
- Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee

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“How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?”
- Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak

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“Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn; and you are too sensible a man not to learn from this failure.”
- Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

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“There was a time in my demented youth
When somehow I suspected that the truth
About survival after death was known
To every human being...”
- Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov

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"On her ears the accustomed words fell dry and sapless as the dead leaves of autumn."
- After the Death of Don Juan by Sylvia Townsend Warner

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“A sad tale's best for winter: I have one of sprites and goblins.”
- The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare

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“Like frustrated suburban wives we fed on each other’s discontent; we became divided into mean little cliques and subdivided into jealously shifting pairs of buddies...”
- Eleven Kinds of Loneliness by Richard Yates

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"After we'd been playing for around two weeks, something clicked in my chess mind and I started to think before making a move, instead of making a move and then thinking."
- The Grass Arena by John Healy

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