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Charlotte Brontë _ Jane Eyre
Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions it excited? Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs." - Helen Burns
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Leo Tolstoy _ The Emperor's Three Questions
Remember that there is only one important time and that is now. The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion. The most important person is always the person you are with, who is right before you, for who knows if you will have dealings with any other person in the future? The most important pursuit is making the person standing at your side happy, for that alone is the pursuit of life.
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Carlos Ruiz Zafón _ Marina
The night I met him Mijail told me that, for some reason, life usually grants us what we are not looking for.
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Adolfo Bioy Casares _ El héroe de las mujeres
En el futuro corre, como un rio nuestro destino, segun lo dibujamos aqui abajo. En el futuro esta todo, porque todo es posible. Alli usted murio la semana pasada y alli esta viviendo para siempre.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ Three Tales
They say, the sun brings life to the world. The sun will rise and look is it not a corpse? Everything is dead and there are corpses everywhere. Just people and around them silence__that is the world! "Love one another"__who said that? Whose command is that? The pendulum swings unfeelingly, antagonistically. It's two o'clock at night. Her slippers are standing by her bed, as if waiting for her.... No, seriously, when they take her away tomorrow, what shall I do?
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L.M. Montgomery _ Anne of Green Gables
And there was always the bend in the road!
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L.M. Montgomery _ Anne of the Island
That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty.
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Chinua Achebe _ No Longer at Ease
The impatient idealist says: 'Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.' But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace.
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Daniel Quinn _ Ishmael: An Adventure of the
The world of the Takers is one vast prison, and except for a handful of Leavers scattered across the world, the entire human race is now inside that prison. {...} Naturally a well-run prison must have a prison industry. I'm sure you see why." "Well... it helps to keep the inmates busy, I suppose. Takes their minds off the boredom and futility of their lives.""Yes. Can you name yours?""Our prison industry? Not offhand. I suppose it's obvious.""Quite obvious, I would say."I gave it some thought. "Consuming the world."Ishmael nodded. "Got it on the first try.
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Judith McNaught _ Remember When
There will be a few times in your life when all your instincts will tell you to do something, something that defies logic, upsets your plans, and may seem crazy to others. When that happens, you do it. Listen to your instincts and ignore everything else. Ignore logic, ignore the odds, ignore the complications, and just go for it."
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Catherine Gilbert Murdock _ Princess Ben
I could not but wonder at the queen's unprecedented civility, until I realized with a flush of shame that it was my own improved behavior that motivated hers. So it is that we in life determine our own treatment.
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Chris Bohjalian _ Secrets of Eden
With age comes acumen. With experience comes insight.
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