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“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.”
― Zora Neale Hurston

“We improve ourselves by victory over our self. There must be contests, and you must win.”
― Edward Gibbon

“The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.”
― V. S. Naipaul, In a Free State

“We are not all born at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later... Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.”
― Mary Austin

“I am a lover and have not found my thing to love.”
― Sherwood Anderson

“Love cannot be reduced to a catalogue of reasons why, and a catalogue of reasons cannot be put together into love.”
― Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries

“Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray

“Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited