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The hammer is the abstraction of each one of its hammerings.

—Gaston Bachelard

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By its novelty, a poetic image sets in motion the entire linguistic mechanism. The poetic image places us at the origin of the speaking being.

—Edith Hamilton

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There is a field where all wonderful perfections of microscope and telescope fail. All exquisite niceties of weights and measures as well as that which is behind them, the keen and driving power of the mind. No facts, however indubitably detected, no effort of reason, however magnificently maintained, can prove that Bach's music is beautiful.

—Ursula K. Le Guin in The Dispossessed

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To him a thinking man's job was not to deny one reality at the expense of the other, but to include and to connect.

—Seth Seth Speaks

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Through the anima and the animus, so-called, present personalities are able to draw upon the knowledge and intuitions and background that was derived from past existences as the opposite sex. On some occasions, for example, the woman may go overboard and exaggerate female characteristics, in which case the animus or male within comes to her aid, bringing through dream experiences an onrush of knowledge that will result in compensating male-like reactions . . .

—Chinese poem

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We have to be utterly broken before we can realize that it is impossible to better the truth. It is the truth that we deny which so tenderly and forgivingly picks up the fragments and puts them together again.

—Laurens Van der Post

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When you keep people from doing things they are destined to do, they go crazy.

—Ilona Andrews in White Hot

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He smiled at me. It was the kind of smile that blazed a trail from your heart to your mind and popped into your head the next time you wondered why you put up with a man who made you want to punch things.

—Ilona Andrews in White Hot

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You find out who your real friends are when stuff like this happens. Turns out I didn't have any.

—Karen M. McManus in One of Us Is Lying

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Love comes when you least expect it. Love comes when you most need it. Love comes when you are ready to receive it or can no longer deny it.

—Mitch Albom in The Next Person You Meet in Heaven

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You're driving in the car and you feel like your whole world has fallen apart. And people in the car beside you are laughing and carrying on. Their life is normal, and you think, 'What gives you the right to laugh?' Because nothing has happened to them. You don't understand how everything else can go on normally when your life will never be normal again. Ever.

—Hope Edelman in Motherless Daughters

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My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.

—Vladimir Nabokov

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Sometimes, I don't want to go anywhere, I think I'll be happy if I never have to set foot outside the house again.

—Paula Hawkins in The Girl on the Train

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Working hard feels good. Of course it's exhausting and stressful and causes you to miss a party or two, but at the end of the day it is so rewarding. One of the best feelings in the world is when you know that luck didn't play a role in your success. Doing work eliminates the need for luck.

—Lilly Singh in How to Be a Bawse

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Honestly, I don't care what we do. I just want to stay wrapped around him for as long as possible, fighting sleep and forgetting about the rest of the world.

—Karen M. McManus in One of Us Is Lying

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