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  1. Henry James _ Roderick Hudson

    True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out - you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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  2. Victor Hugo _ Les Misérables

    La lumière des torches ressemble à la sagesse des lâches; elle éclaire mal, parce qu'elle tremble.
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  3. Victor Hugo _ Les Misérables

    People who are overwhelmed with troubles never do look back. They know only too well that misfortune follows in their footsteps.
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  4. William Shakespeare _ Measure for Measure

    Life... is a paradise to what we fear of death.
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  5. John Updike _ Toward the End of Time

    We must have sinned greatly, at some juncture long buried in our protozoic past, to deserve such a universe
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  6. John Updike _ Toward the End of Time

    And yet does the appetite for new days ever really cease?
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  7. Rebecca McNutt _ Bittersweet Symphony

    There are so many shady things happening in this country, they're happening all around us all the time, and we just accept them.
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  8. Rebecca McNutt _ Bittersweet Symphony

    there's no better system than our own morality, not law, not science, not religion… just decency.
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  9. Rebecca McNutt _ Bittersweet Symphony

    Whether you live or die, whether you're bad or good, whether you're born or not, it's all arbitrary… but what can I say? I don't like fate or chance, and I don't always play by the rules, legalist as I am.
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  10. Rebecca McNutt _ Mandy and Alecto: The

    What's supposed to be and what is, are two very different things.
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  11. Rebecca McNutt _ Bittersweet Symphony

    Small talk… Bernie resented it more than life itself. The weather, sports scores, frivolous gossip… nothing real, nothing serious, nothing meaningful about it. People were experts at wasting their brief, precious years on earth with small talk.
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  12. Rebecca Goldstein _ Plato at the Googleplex: Why

    Plato dramatically puts the detachment of the philosopher from his time this way: to philosophize is to prepare to die.
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