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  1. Yvon Chouinard _ Let My People Go Surfing: The

    How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top."
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  2. Elizabeth Gilbert _ The Signature of All Things

    That competition and the struggle for existence is the mechanism behind this state of perpetual change.
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  3. David Gemmell _ Dark Moon

    Life is a struggle, from the agonies of birth to the railing against death. Devour or be devoured. The law of the wild.
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  4. Markus Zusak _ Fighting Ruben Wolfe

    That paper--it sits there, open at the employment section. It sits there like a war, and each small advertisement is another trench for a person to dive into. To hope and fight in.
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  5. Markus Zusak _ Getting the Girl

    I told her I loved the howling sound of her harmonica. That seemed to be the limit of my courage that night, and even those spoken words had to struggle their way out of my mouth. It's all very well for words to build bridges, but sometimes I think it's a matter of knowing when to do it. Knowing when the time's right.
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  6. Slavoj Žižek _ Absolute Recoil: Towards A New

    We thus have three levels of antagonism: the Two are never two, the One is never one, the Nothing is never nothing. Sinthome-the signifier of the barred Other-registers the antagonism of the Two, their non-relationship. The object a registers the antagonism of the One, its inability to be one. $ registers the antagonism of Nothing, its inability to be the Void at peace with itself, to annul all struggles. The position of Wisdom is that the Void brings ultimate peace, a state in which all differences are obliterated; the position of dialectical materialism is that there is no peace even in the Void.
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  7. Ta-Nehisi Coates _ Between the World and Me

    By the time I visited those battlefields, I knew that they had been retrofitted as the staging ground for a great deception, and this was my only security, because they could no longer insult me by lying to me. I knew-and the most important thing I knew was that, somewhere deep with them, they knew too. I like to think that knowing might have kept me from endangering you, that having understood and acknowledged the anger, I could control it. I like to think that it could have allowed me to speak the needed words to the woman and then walk away. I like to think this, but I can't promise it. The struggle is really all I have for you because it is the only portion of this world under your control.
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  8. Victor Hugo _ Les Misérables

    A shadow is hard to seize by the throat and dash to the ground.
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  9. Tom Stoppard _ Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

    Be happy -- if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving?
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  10. Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ Notes from Underground, White

    It ended by my almost believing {perhaps actually believing} that this was perhaps my normal condition. But at first, in the beginning, what agonies I endured in that struggle! I did not believe it was the same with other people, and all my life I hid this fact about myself as a secret. I was ashamed {even now, perhaps, I am ashamed}: I got to the point of feeling a sort of secret abnormal, despicable enjoyment in returning home to my corner on some disgusting Petersburg night, acutely conscious that that day I had committed a loathsome action again, that what was done could never be undone, and secretly, inwardly gnawing, gnawing at myself for it, tearing and consuming myself till at last the bitterness turned into a sort of shameful accursed sweetness, and at last-into positive real enjoyment! Yes, into enjoyment, into enjoyment! I insist upon that. I have spoken of this because I keep wanting to know for a fact whether other people feel such enjoyment? I will explain; the enjoyment was just from the too intense consciousness of one's own degradation; it was from feeling oneself that one had reached the last barrier, that it was horrible, but that it could not be otherwise; that there was no escape for you; that you never could become a different man; that even if time and faith were still left you to change into something different you would most likely not wish to change; or if you did wish to, even then you would do nothing; because perhaps in reality there was nothing for you to change into.And the worst of it was, and the root of it all, that it was all in accord with the normal fundamental laws of over-acute consciousness, and with the inertia that was the direct result of those laws, and that consequently one was not only unable to change but could do absolutely nothing. Thus it would follow, as the result of acute consciousness, that one is not to blame in being a scoundrel; as though that were any consolation to the scoundrel once he has come to realise that he actually is a scoundrel.
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  11. Colson Whitehead _ The Underground Railroad

    ...but we have all been branded, even if you can't see it - inside, if not without.
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  12. Laurie Halse Anderson _ Wintergirls

    I want to eat like a normal person eats, but I needto see my bones or I will hate myself even more and Imight cut out my heart or take every pill that was evermade.
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