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  1. M.M. Kaye _ Shadow of the Moon

    Common sense will nearly always stand you in better stead than a slavish adherence to the conventions."
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  2. Haruki Murakami _ 1Q84

    But still," Ayumi said, "it seems to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness.""You may be right," Aomame said, "But it's too late to trade it in for another one.
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  3. Haruki Murakami _ Kafka on the Shore

    The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do you know what I'm getting at? People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues....{But} we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings.
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  4. Margaret George _ Mary Queen of Scotland and The

    Mary watched the sunset from her carriage window, realizing that such beauty could never last. Life was a golden glory that faded in the wink of an eye. Life was a village fair that only lasted for a single day. As the carriage rattled along, rocking her like a babe in arms, Mary felt very old and wise. She found that she didn't mind being taken back to the castle, to a caring captivity that was filled with comforts and kindness. And she also found that she couldn't keep her eyes open.
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  5. Jean Plaidy _ Queen of This Realm

    Un país gana más con un año de paz que con diez de guerra.
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  6. Tad Williams _ The Dragonbone Chair

    When you stopped to think about it, he reflected, there weren't many things in life one truly needed. To want too much was worse than greed: it was stupidity - a waste of precious time and effort.
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  7. Tad Williams _ The Dragonbone Chair

    He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no matter which is true, he is certainly an unhappy man, for he has put a knife in the heart of wonder."
    book-quotewisdomwonderfoolish

  8. Philip Pullman _ Northern Lights: Oxford Pt.1

    At Gabriel College there was a very holy object on the high altar of the Oratory, covered with a black velvet cloth... At the height of the invocation the Intercessor lifted the cloth to reveal in the dimness a glass dome inside which there was something too distant to see, until he pulled a string attached to a shutter above, letting a ray of sunlight through to strike the dome exactly. Then it became clear: a little thing like a weathervane, with four sails black on one side and white on the other, began to whirl around as the light struck it. It illustrated a moral lesson, the Intercessor explained, for the black of ignorance fled from the light, whereas the wisdom of white rushed to embrace it.{.}
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  9. Nick Hornby (Author) _ How to Be Good

    You don't ask people with knives in their stomachs what would make them happy; happiness is no longer the point. It's all about survival; it's all about whether you pull the knife out and bleed to death or keep it in, in the hope that you might be lucky, and the knife has actually been staunching the blood. You want to know the conventional medical wisdom? The conventional medical wisdom is that you keep the knife in. Really.
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  10. Milan Kundera _ The Book of Laughter and

    When Don Quixote went out into the world, that world turned into a mystery before his eyes. That is the legacy of the first European novel to the entire subsequent history of the novel. The novel teaches us to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude.
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  11. Milan Kundera _ The Book of Laughter and

    Once the writer in every individual comes to life {and that time is not far off}, we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding.
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  12. Ian McEwan _ Enduring Love

    Perhaps I'd been a slow developer, but I was well into my forties before I realized that you don't have to comply with a request just because it's reasonable or reasonably put. Age is the great dis-obliger. You can be yourself and say no.
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