“Not being heard is no reason for silence.”
- Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

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“His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origin of speech lie in song, and the origins of song in the need to fill out with sound the overlarge and rather empty human soul.”
- Disgrace by JM Coetzee

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“She had no existence, in herself. From earliest childhood she had believed this. Rather she was a reflecting surface, reflecting others' perception of her, and love of her.”
- Carthage by Joyce Carol Oates

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“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”
- The Go-Between by L.P Hartley

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“You can't find someone who doesn't want to be found.”
- The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

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“If it’s going to be a world with no time for sentiment, it’s not a world that I want to live in.”
- A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood

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‘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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