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  1. Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ The Brothers Karamazov

    ...to return to their 'native soil,' as they say, to the bosom, so to speak, of their mother earth, like frightened children, yearning to fall asleep on the withered bosom of their decrepit mother, and to sleep there for ever, only to escape the horrors that terrify them.
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  2. Bell Hooks _ All About Love: New Visions

    But many of us seek community solely to escape the fear of being alone. Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape."
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  3. Enid Blyton _ Six Cousins At Mistletoe Farm

    You're trying to escape from your difficulties, and there never is any escape from difficulties, never. They have to be faced and fought.
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  4. L.M. Montgomery _ The Blue Castle

    There is no such thing as freedom on earth," he said. "Only different kinds of bondages. And comparative bondages. YOU think you are free now because you've escaped from a peculiarly unbreakable kind of bondage. But are you? You love me - THAT'S a bondage.
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  5. Colson Whitehead _ The Underground Railroad

    White man trying to kill you slow every day, and sometimes trying to kill you fast. Why make it easy for him? That was one kind of work you could say no to.
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  6. Jeanette Winterson _ Sexing the Cherry

    Running away from uncertainty and confusion but most of all running away from myself. I thought I might become someone else in time, grafted on to something better and stronger. And then I saw that the running away was a running towards. An effort to catch up with my fleet-footed self, living another life in a different way.
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  7. Jeanette Winterson _ Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

    I came to this city to escape.
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  8. David Baldacci _ The Finisher

    Woe be to the wug who forgets that destroying one part of a thing does not equal victory
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  9. Terry Pratchett _ Wyrd Sisters

    Humans had built a world inside the world, which reflected it in pretty much the same way as a drop of water reflected the landscape. And yet ... and yet ...Inside this little world they had taken pains to put all the things you might think they would want to escape from - hatred, fear, tyranny, and so forth. Death was intrigued. They thought they wanted to be taken out of themselves, and every art humans dreamt up took them further . He was fascinated."
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  10. Sarah J. Maas _ Crown of Midnight

    To escape death, she'd become death.
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  11. Arthur Conan Doyle _ Sherlock Holmes: The Complete

    I must apologize for calling so late," said he, "and I must further beg you to be so unconventional as to allow me to leave your house presently by scrambling over your back garden wall.
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  12. Umberto Eco _ Six Walks in the Fictional

    To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or will happen in the actual world. By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety that attacks us when we try to say something true about the world. This is the consoling function of narrative - the reason people tell stories, and have told stories from the beginning of time.
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