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    Aeschylus
    “The moving light, rejoicing in its strength,
    Sped from the pyre of pine, and urged its way,
    In golden glory, like some strange new sun...”
    ― Aeschylus
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    Aeschylus
    “For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.”
    ― Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound
    tags: disease, friends, trust, tyranny
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    William Shakespeare
    “The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo. You that; we this way.”
    ― William Shakespeare
    tags: don-armado, love-s-labour-s-lost
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    John Webster
    “Pull and pull strongly for your able strength / Must pull down heaven upon me”
    ― John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
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    Albert Camus
    “To lose one's life is no great matter; when the time comes I'll have the courage to lose mine. But what's intolerable is to see one's life being drained of meaning, to be told there's no reason for existing. A man can't live without some reason for living.”
    ― Albert Camus, Caligula
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    Anthony Trollope
    “Of course he had committed forgery;--of course he had committed robbery. That, indeed, was nothing, for he had been cheating and forging and stealing all his life.”
    ― Anthony Trollope, The Way We Live Now
    tags: augustus-melmotte, carbury, crumb, hurtle, longstaffe, montague, poor-ruby-ruggles
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    Frances Hodgson Burnett
    “When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It was true too . . . she was as tyrannical and selfish a little pig as ever lived.”
    ― Frances Hodgson Burnett
    tags: children-s-books, classics, little-lord-fauntleroy, mary-lennox, the-secret-garden
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    Anton Chekhov
    “Grisha, a fat, solemn little person of seven, was standing by the kitchen door listening and peeping through the keyhole.”
    ― Anton Pavlovich Chejov
    tags: humor, loss-of-innocence, realism, the-cook-s-wedding, tragi-comedy
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    Edith Wharton
    “Xingu!" she scoffed. "Why, it was the fact of our knowing so much more about it than she did—unprepared though we were—that made Osric Dane so furious. I should have thought that was plain enough to everybody!”
    ― Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome & Selected Stories
    tags: behaviour, dangerous-philosophy, didacticism, humor, manners, new-york, pretension, puns
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    Bertolt Brecht
    “A Man lives off his head.
    His head won't see him through.
    Inspect your own—
    What lives on that?
    At most, a louse or two . . .”
    ― Bertolt Brecht
    tags: manheim-willett-transl, peachum, threepenny-opera
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    August Strindberg
    “Life is not so idiotically mathematical that only the big eat the small; it is just as common for a bee to kill a lion or at least to drive it mad.”
    ― August Strindberg, Miss Julie
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    E.M. Forster
    “Don't go fighting against the Spring.”
    ― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View
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    Francis Bacon
    “The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.”
    ― Francis Bacon
    tags: artist
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    Shirley Jackson
    “They walked over to it and Brad bent down gingerly: "It's a leg all right," he said.”
    ― Shirley Jackson
    tags: brad, margaret, new-england, new-york, pillar-of-salt
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    H.L. Mencken
    “The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.”
    ― H.L. Mencken
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    Gregory Maguire
    “Happy endings are still endings.”
    ― Gregory Maguire, Son of a Witch
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    Don DeLillo
    “Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals.”
    ― Don DeLillo
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    Honoré de Balzac
    “Reading brings us unknown friends”
    ― Honore de Balzac
    tags: reading
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    O. Henry
    “No friendship is an accident. ”
    ― O. Henry, Heart of the West
    tags: friendship
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    Robert Graves
    “There's no money in poetry, but there's no poetry in money, either.”
    ― Robert Graves
    tags: robert-graves
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    Homer
    “Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.”
    ― Homer, The Odyssey
    tags: inspirational, life
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