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    Jane Austen
    “The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!”
    ― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
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    Hermann Hesse
    “I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.”
    ― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
    tags: destiny, fate, fortune, learning-process, meaning, value
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    Hermann Hesse
    “What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.”
    ― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
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    Hermann Hesse
    “My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.”
    ― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Hell is—other people!”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit
    tags: garcin, hell, people
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre
    tags: growing-older, life-experience
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    Albert Camus
    “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: seasons, strength, trial, triumph
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    Albert Camus
    “Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: human-nature, man, mankind, philosophy
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    Albert Camus
    “Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    Albert Camus
    “Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.”
    ― Albert Camus, The Rebel
    tags: being, innocence, nostalgia, rebellion, revolt
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    Albert Camus
    “I rebel; therefore I exist.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: existentialism, rebel
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  • #12
    Betty Smith
    “Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words.”
    ― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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    Betty Smith
    “But she needs me more than she needs him and I guess being needed is almost as good as being loved. Maybe better.”
    ― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
    tags: dependent, love, parenting
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    Grady Hendrix
    “Sometimes she craved a little danger. And that was why she had book club.”
    ― Grady Hendrix, The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
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    Madeline Miller
    “The thought was this: that all my life had been murk and depths, but I was not a part of that dark water. I was a creature within it.”
    ― Madeline Miller, Circe
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism, self-awareness, self-determination, women
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: creative-process, creativity, inspirational, mental-illness, outsider, self-discovery
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    Samantha Harvey
    “We matter greatly and not at all. To reach some pinnacle of human achievement only to discover that your achievements are next to nothing and that to understand this is the greatest achievement of any life, which itself is nothing, and also much more than everything. Some metal separates us from the void; death is so close. Life is everywhere, everywhere.sm”
    ― Samantha Harvey, Orbital
    tags: inspirational
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