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  1. Elizabeth Gilbert _ Eat, Pray, Love

    You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
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  2. George Eliot _ Middlemarch

    But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.
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  3. Beth Revis _ Across the Universe

    More than the sound of my own beating heart, I miss the sound of a ticking clock. Time passes. It must pass....
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  4. Naomi Novik _ Uprooted

    She was thinner than she had been. The thing ate only sparingly. Enough to keep Kasia alive, not enough to keep me from watching her wear away, her body growing gaunt and her face hollow-cheeked.
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  5. David Guterson _ Snow Falling on Cedars

    We Japanese, on the other hand, know our egos are nothing. We bend our egos, all of the time, and that is where we differ. That is the fundamental difference, Hatsue. We bend our heads, we bow and are silent, because we understand that by ourselves alone, we are nothing at all, dust in a strong wind, while the 'hakujin' believes his aloneness is everything, his separateness is the foundation of his existence. He seeks and grasps, seeks and grasps for his separateness, while we seek union with the Greater Life--you must see that these are distinct paths we are travelling, Hatsue, the 'hakujin' and we Japanese" {p. 176}.
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  6. Ta-Nehisi Coates _ Between the World and Me

    The spirit and soul are the body and brain, which are destructible-that is precisely why they are so precious.
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  7. V.C. Andrews _ Pearl in the Mist

    We're better off not worrying about ourselves, and to do that, we have to worry about others.
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  8. John Steinbeck _ The Winter of Our Discontent

    Farewell has a sweet sound of reluctance. Good-by is short and final, a word with teeth sharp to bite through the string that ties past to the future.
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  9. Lewis Carroll _ Alice's Adventures in

    Mad Hatter: Am I going mad?Alice: Yes, you're mad, bonkers, off the top of your head...but...I'll tell you a secret.All the best people are.
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  10. Annie Dillard _ The Writing Life

    Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood; aim for the chopping block.
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  11. Cormac McCarthy _ The Road

    He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The crushing black vacuum of the universe. And somewhere two hunted animals trembling like ground-foxes in their cover. Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.
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  12. Ken Kesey _ One Flew Over the Cuckoo's

    It's fall coming, I kept thinking, fall coming; just like that was the strangest thing ever happened. Fall. Right outside here it was spring a while back, then it was summer, and now it's fall-that's sure a curious idea.
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