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“He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.”

— Joseph Heller, Catch-22

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“The pictures do not lie, but neither do they tell the whole story. They are merely a record of time passing, the outward evidence.”

— Paul Auster, Travels in the Scriptorium

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“If I were a moviemaker, I’d set about hunting sunsets.”

— Julio Cortázar, A Certain Lucas

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“It was weird what was enough to make you feel good or bad, even though your basic life circumstances were the same.”

— Elif Batuman, The Idiot

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“Perhaps when we shrink down to almost nothing, we will at last find one another. Life is, after all, very difficult. Most of us die here simply because we forget to breathe.”

— Paul Auster, 4 3 2 1

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“All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive.”

— Yann Martel, Life of Pi

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“Everyone likes to have his deepest convictions confirmed; that is one of the most abiding of human satisfactions.”

— Anthony Burgess, The Wanting Seed

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“I think I want to be in love with you but I don’t know how.”

— Angela Carter, The Magic Toyshop

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“Time can be a greedy thing – sometimes it steals the details for itself.”

— Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

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“You be greater than your feelings. I don’t demand this of you — life does. Otherwise you’ll be washed away by feelings. You’ll be washed out to sea and never seen again.”

— Philip Roth, Indignation

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It's your mind that needs to be reaffirmed and reassured. Your heart knows that you have nothing to lose or gain— for when you are empowered, you create your reality.

—l.a.m.p

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“Words don’t come out when you’re hurt that deeply.”

— Haruki Murakami

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“I’ll tell you about it if I ever get it straight in my head.”

— Ernest Hemingway

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“Any new possibility that existence acquires, even the least likely, transforms everything about existence.”

— Milan Kundera, Slowness

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“You cannot use someone else’s fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.”

— Audre Lorde

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“Once a person drops the scales of prejudiced certainty and doubts appear, there is no telling how far a heart can open.”

— Louise Erdrich, Four Souls

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“He is not like other children, not cruel, or savage. For this very reason he is called ‘strange.’ A child who is mature, in the sense that the heart is mature, is always, I have observed, called deficient.”

— Djuna Barnes, Nightwood

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