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A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

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People couldn’t become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.

Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

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Newton Pulsifer had never had a cause in his life. Nor had he, as far as he knew, ever believed in anything. It had been embarrassing, because he quite wanted to believe in something, since he recognized that belief was the lifebelt that got most people through the choppy waters of Life.

Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

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Notoriety wasn’t as good as fame, but was heaps better than obscurity.

Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

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It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.

Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

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People with a grudge against the world are always dangerous. They seem to think life owes them something.

A Murder Is Announced by Agatha Christie

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Like so many liars, there is a real substratum of truth behind her lies.

A Murder Is Announced by Agatha Christie

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"Many phenomena – wars, plagues, sudden audits – have been advanced as evidence for the hidden hand of Satan in the affairs of Man"

Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

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But maybe you ’ve loved somebody, too, and you know? If you have, I don’t need to explain; if you have n’t, I can’t explain.

Daddy Long Legs by Jean Webster

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I hate the moonlight because it ’s beautiful and he is n’t here to see it with me.

Daddy Long Legs by Jean Webster

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It seems to me that a man who can think straight along for forty-seven years without changing a single idea ought to be kept in a cabinet as a curiosity.

Daddy Long Legs by Jean Webster

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The most necessary quality for any person to have is imagination. It makes people able to put themselves in other people’s places. It makes them kind and sympathetic and understanding.

Daddy Long Legs by Jean Webster

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I am beginning, in fact, to feel at home in the world—as though I really belonged in it and had not just crept in on sufferance.

Daddy Long Legs by Jean Webster

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It is n’t the big troubles in life that require character. Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to meet the petty hazards of the day with a laugh—I really think that requires spirit .

Daddy Long Legs by Jean Webster

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In a strange room you must empty yourself for sleep. And before you are emptied for sleep, what are you. And when you are emptied for sleep, you are not. And when you are filled with sleep, you never were. I dont know what I am. I dont know if I am or not. Jewel knows he is, because he does not know that he does not know whether he is or not. He cannot empty himself for sleep because he is not what he is and he is what he is not. Beyond the unlamped wall I can hear the rain shaping the wagon that is ours, the load that is no longer theirs that felled and sawed it nor yet theirs that bought it and which is not ours either, lie on our wagon though it does, since only the wind and the rain shape it only to Jewel and me, that are not asleep. And since sleep is is-not and rain and wind are was, it is not. Yet the wagon is, because when the wagon is was, Addie Bundren will not be. And Jewel is, so Addie Bundren must be. And then I must be, or I could not empty myself for sleep in a strange room. And so if I am not emptied yet, I am is.

As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner

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As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner