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  1. Simone de Beauvoir _ The Woman Destroyed

    Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
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  2. l.m. montgomery _ Anne of Avonlea

    He watched over word and thought and deed as jealously as if her clear eyes were to pass judgement on it... She held over him the unconscious influence that every girl, whose ideals are high and pure, wields over her friends; an influence that would endure as long as she was faithful to those ideals and which she would certainly lose if she were ever false to them.
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  3. John Fowles _ The Collector

    Look, Miranda, he said, those twenty long years that lie between you and me. I've more knowledge of life than you, I've lived more and betrayed more and seen more betrayed. At your age one is bursting with ideals. You think that because I can sometimes see what's trivial and what's important in art that I ought to be more virtuous. But I don't want to be virtuous. My charm {if there is any} for you is simply frankness. And experience. Not goodness. I'm not a good man. Perhaps morally I'm younger even than you are. Can you understand that?
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  4. Hermann Hesse _ Steppenwolf

    Es ist viel flacher, wenn du für etwas Gutes und Ideales kämpfst und nun meinst, du müssest es auch erreichen. Sind denn Ideale zum Erreichen da? Leben wir denn, wir Menschen, um den Tod abzuschaffen? Nein, wir leben, um ihn zu fürchten und dann wieder zu lieben, und gerade seinetwegen glüht das bißchen Leben manchmal eine Stunde lang so schön.
    book-quoteidealstodideale

  5. Hermann Hesse _ Demian. Die Geschichte von

    At one time I had given much thought to why men were so very rarely capable of living for an ideal. Now I saw that many, no, all men were capable of dying for one.
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  6. E M Forster _ Where Angels Fear to Tread

    Society is invincible-to a certain degree. But your real life is your own, and nothing can touch it. There is no power on earth that can prevent your criticizing and despising mediocrity-nothing that can stop you retreating into splendour and beauty-into the thoughts and beliefs that make the real life-the real you.
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  7. Henri J.M. Nouwen _ Bread for the Journey: A

    Can we only speak when we are fully living what we are saying? If all our words had to cover all our actions, we would be doomed to permanent silence! Sometimes we are called to proclaim God's love even when we are not yet fully able to live it. Does that mean we are hypocrites? Only when our own words no longer call us to conversion. Nobody completely lives up to his or her own ideals and visions. But by proclaiming our ideals and visions with great conviction and great humility, we may gradually grow into the truth we speak. As long as we know that our lives always will speak louder than our words, we can trust that our words will remain humble.
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  8. V.C. Andrews _ Flowers in the Attic

    And when I fall in love," I began, "I will build a mountain to touch the sky. Then, my lover and I will have the best of both worlds, reality firmly under our feet, while we have our heads in the clouds with all our illusions still intact. And the purple grass will grow all around, high enough to reach our eyes.
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  9. Annie Dillard _ Teaching a Stone to Talk:

    Wherever we go, there seems to be only one business at hand-that of finding a workable compromise between the sublimity of our ideas and the absurdity of the fact of us.
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  10. Orhan Pamuk _ Snow

    ...in a brutal country like ours where human life is cheap, it's stupid to destroy yourself for the sake of your beliefs. Beliefs, high ideals--only people living in rich countries can enjoy such luxuries.' 'Actually, it's the other way round. In a poor country the only consolation people can have is the one that comes from their beliefs."
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  11. W. Somerset Maugham _ Of Human Bondage

    It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded. It looks as if they were victims of a conspiracy; for the books they read, ideal by the necessity of selection, and the conversation of their elders, who look back upon the past through a rosy haze of forgetfulness, prepare them for an unreal life. They must discover for themselves that all they have read and all they have been told are lies, lies, lies; and each discovery is another nail driven into the body on the cross of life.
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  12. Margaret Atwood _ The Blind Assassin

    They were both in their own ways earnest; they both wanted to achieve some worthy end or other, change the world for the better. Such alluring, such perilous ideals!"
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