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We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.

—Jean-Paul Sartre

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Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

—Jessamyn West

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Getting caught is the mother of invention.

—Robert Byrne

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To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

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Every failure is a step to success.

—William Whewell

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Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.

—Winston Churchill

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A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.

—Richard Whately

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We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.

—Clarence Day

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Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

—Jean Paul

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There was just a moment when things weren't quite the same, weren't quite as they had always been through the long friendship.

—Lois Lowry in The Giver

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All I have to do is look around me to know time doesn't heal all wounds.

—Angela Pisel in With Love from the Inside

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This is the sixth book I've written, which isn't bad for a guy who's only read two.

—George Burns

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It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

—Jules Renard

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Funny how life had its little ways of surprising you. Little quirks of fate.

—Lev Grossman in The Magicians

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Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.

—Douglas Adams

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