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“I don’t save lives, but I try not to ruin them.” -- Rebecca Solnit; Men Explain Things to Me

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You are the nearest thing to a real story to happen in my life.

Renata Adler; Pitch Dark

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We were underdogs; we knew only heartbreak and loss.

Joshua Ferris; To Rise Again at a Decent Hour

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Note to self: try harder, in all things, to be a better person.

George Saunders; Tenth of December

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Each of us is several different people, and all these people live inside us.

Luigi Pirandello; Six Characters in Search of an Author

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In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

Oscar Wilde

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I have loved to the point of madness; that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love.

Francois Sagon

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You are caught between all that was and all that must be.

Haruki Murakami; Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the Earth

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May you never know sorrow again.

Etgar Keret; Suddenly, a Knock on the Door

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the props of my affection were removed / and yet the building stood

William Wordsworth

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When You Are Old

When you are old and gray and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;

How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true; But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.

And bending down beside the glowing bars Murmur, a little sadly, how love fled And paced upon the mountains overhead And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.

— W.B. Yeats

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Think: we were made by love, for love.

Alan Garner; Red Shift

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There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.

E.M. Forster; A Room with a View

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Victor Hugo's Les Miserables

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Let us live happily. Life is all we have.

Victor Hugo; Les Miserables

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All I've ever done is dream. That, and only that, has been the meaning of my existence.

Fernando Pessoa; The Book of Disquiet

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Without you, the world would be incomplete.

Simon Van Booy; The Secret Lives of People in Love