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This emotion I'm feeling now, this is love, right?I don't know. Is it a longing? Is it a giddy stupid happiness just because you're with me?Yes, she said.That's influenza, said Miro. Watch for nausea...

Nevertheless the sun hides not Virginia's Dismal Swamp, nor Rome's accursed Campagna, nor wide Sahara, nor all the million miles of deserts and of griefs beneath the moon. The sun hides not the ocean,...

For me, Ted, living means I can be responsive to the other person. It means I can show my emotions and my feelings. Talk to them. Feel with them …

What he ate did not so much relieve his hunger, as keep it immortal in him.

She worked her toes into the sand, feeling the tiny delicious pain of the friction of tiny chips of silicon against the tender flesh between her toes. That's life. It hurts, it's dirty, and it feels...

The world was not how you wanted it to be. The world was how it was.

They resisted that essential inductive leap from the immediate reform to the social ideal, and, just as disappointingly, they failed to perceive their common cause with other minorities, continued to...

The characteristic human feature is not consciousness but conformism, and the characteristic result is religious war. Other animals fight for territory or food; Human beings, on the other hand, are...

Nobody smart knows what they want to do until they get into their twenties or thirties.

The shaykh interrupted him, saying, Not so fast. I'm the sort of person who praises only to clear the way to speak the truth, for the sake of encouragement, son of Abd al-Jawad

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they were convicted of high treason and armed rebellion against the authority of the Crown {the brick constituting, for Stephanus' purposes, a potentially lethal weapon-lethal, in any case, to...

Women loved their babies from the second they pushed them into the world; they were programmed to love them, feed them, and protect them, no matter what.

But absence of proof is not proof of absence.

He felt awkward because she was going to murder him.

Yossarian quickened his pace to get away, almost ran. The night was filled with horrors, and he thought he knew how Christ must have felt as he walked through the world, like a psychiatrist through a...

being articulate is not a facility of language but a fidelity to vision. And so we are all articulate when finding the courage to say what we see.

I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.

At first Lissar merely ran away; away from the yellow city, away from the prince whom she loved with both halves of her broken heart.

He breathed in her hair, the sweet-smelling thickness of it. My father usually agreed with her requests, because stamped in his two-footed stance and jaw was the word Provider, and he loved her the...

The ship was top heavy as a dinnerless student with his head full of Aristotle.

{The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers.}

Some women fight and others do not. Like so many successful guerrillas in the war between the sexes, Georgia O'Keeffe seems to have been equipped early with an immutable sense of who she was and a...

This wavering paradox is a pillar of the outlaw stance. A man who has blown all his options can't afford the luxury of changing his ways. He has to capitalize on whatever he has left, and he can't...

The Angels don't like to be called losers, but they have learned to live with it. Yeah, I guess I am, said one. But you're looking at one loser who's going to make a hell of a scene on the way out.

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Your mum is gone, but you are a part of her legacy – while you live, she will never really be dead. You have her blood in your veins, and her wisdom in your mind. Your child will be a part of her...

Dux femina facti The leader of the enterprise a woman. Virgil

But the absence of evidence is not proof of absence.

Life is wonderful. It's a gift to be alive, to see the sun and breathe the air. And there isn't really anything else.

All your life, other people will try to take your accomplishments away from you. Don't you take it away from yourself.

Human beings are so destructive. I sometimes think we're a kind of plague, that will scrub the earth clean. We destroy things so well that I sometimes think, maybe that's our function. Maybe every few...

Now, where were we? Read me back the last line.''Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take shorthand.'Not my last line, stupid!' the colonel shouted. 'Somebody else's.''Read...