a Collection of Quotes and Phrases

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— Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

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“I have to study politics and war so that my sons can study mathematics, commerce and agriculture, so their sons can study poetry, painting and music.”

- John Quincy Adams

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“I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people that make you feel all alone.”

  - Robin Williams, World’s Greatest Dad

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“The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.”

- Sherlock Holmes

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“When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.”

  - Viktor Frankl

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“Failed. There are plenty of others willing to call you a failure. A fool. A loser. A hopeless souse. Don't you ever say it of yourself. You send out the wrong signal, that is what people pick up. Don't you understand? You care about something, you fight for it. You hit a wall, you push through it. There's something you need to know about failure, Tintin. You can never let it defeat you.”

   - Captain Haddock, The Adventures of Tintin (2011)

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“Anything is grand if it’s done on a large enough scale.”

- Henry Winter, The Secret History by Donna Tartt

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“I do so dearly believe that no half-heartedness and no worldly fear must turn us aside from following the light unflinchingly.”

  - J.R.R. Tolkien

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“The task I have in mind will require a great deal of stealth and no small amount of courage.”

  - Gandalf, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

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“The problems of failure are hard. The problems of success can be harder, because nobody warns you about them. The first problem of any kind of even limited success is the unshakable conviction that you’re getting away with something and that any moment now, they will discover you.”

- Neil Gaiman, 2012 Commencement Speech “Make Good Art”

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“I happen to believe that you can’t study men, you can only get to know them, which is quite a different thing.”

  - C.S. Lewis

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“The world is so exquisite, with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ourselves with pretty stories for which there’s little good evidence. Far better, it seems to me, in our vulnerability, is to look Death in the eye and to be grateful every day for the brief but magnificent opportunity life provides.”

- Carl Sans, Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millenium

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“Nothing happens.” (in the play ‘Waiting for Gadot’ by Samuel Beckett - called “The Absurd Drama”)

“Yes! Isn’t that just like life, Johnno? We all sit around waiting for something to happen but it never does. And what are we waiting for? God? Meaning? Death?”

“Maybe we’re waiting to grow up, but maybe we never do.” … “Why do they call it absurd? It seems totally normal to me.”

“Well, here we sit, surrounded by some fairyland fantasy (the world) - and the really absurd thing is, most people don’t seem to notice.”

- conversation between Mr. Edly and John, Spud (2010)

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a ‘great deal’ (of something)

a lot of, many

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“…meaning that art is a stillpoint, a small oasis that gives us a respite from death. It’s a bit of eternity. It’s a quiet breathing space where death does not exist.”

- Donna Tartt on what it means to create art (writing) with the inevitability of death in the end, Interview (2014)

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“I don’t know. And I don’t like not knowing.”

- Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock BBC

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“So this is walking? I don’t care for it actually.”

- Finn, Gilmore Girls: A Year In The Life