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“mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.”
― Joseph Heller

tags: survival

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#2

“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
― Khaled Hosseini

tags: life

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#3

“Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering...”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

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#4

“All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

tags: obsession

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#5

“Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

tags: sadness

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#6

“If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.”
― Amy Tan

tags: life

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#7

“Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger. Travel too far that road and the way is lost.”
― Terry Brooks, The Elfstones of Shannara

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#8

“True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

tags: high-school, terror

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#9

“Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

tags: humour, telekinetics

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#10

“When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

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#11

“Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: art, humanity, sadness

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#12

“I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.”
― Joseph Heller

tags: dreams, life, survival

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#13

“I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.”
― J.D. Salinger, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction

tags: happiness

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#14

“Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.”
― Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl

tags: confidence, humor, ignorance, knowledge

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#15

“A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.”
― Charlotte Brontë

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#16

“I know a way to stay friends forever,
There's really nothing to it,
I tell you what to do,
And you do it.”
― Shel Silverstein

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#17

“The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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#18

“Yesterday is skin on snake, to be shed many times.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Beyond the Highland Mist

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#19

“...I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life, so I am curbing myself.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

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#20

“If there was a God, he'd guide the winds, let them blow for me so that, with a tug of my string, I'd cut loose my pain, my longing.”
― Khaled Hosseini

tags: suffering

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#21

“It's bad enough wasting time without killing it.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

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#22

“A cavalryman's horse should be smarter than he is. But the horse must never be allowed to know this.”
― Steven Pressfield, The Virtues of War

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#23

“In my experience, there are two things that no one will admit to: having no sense of humor and being susceptible to flattery.”
― Margaret George, The Memoirs of Cleopatra

tags: weaknesses

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#24

“What is one person's diversion may be another's supreme test.”
― Margaret George, The Memoirs of Cleopatra

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#25

“...handsome people are always interesting to watch. But a handsome person in crisis is riveting.”
― Augusten Burroughs, Dry

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#26

“Sometimes not knowing enough can allow you to think you can achieve anything.”
― Tony Bramwell, Magical Mystery Tours: My Life with the Beatles

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#27

“Why do we have such a finite capacity for pleasure but an infinite one for pain?”
― Marian Keyes, The Other Side of the Story

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#28

“How to make God laugh? Tell Him your plans.”
― Marian Keyes, The Other Side of the Story

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#29

“Try to be a filter, not a sponge.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

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#30

“the juniors were acting different because they are now the seniors. They even had T-shirts made. I don't know who plans these things.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: rite-of-passage

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