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To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.

—Max Beerbohm

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If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.

—P. J. O'Rourke

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Sometimes you have to go somewhere else to appreciate what we have here.

—Cinda Williams Chima in The Dragon Heir

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Every now and then, I'd meet a guy and think that we were getting along great, and suddenly I'd stop hearing from him. Not only did he stop calling, but if I happened to bump into him sometime later he always acted like I had the plague. I didn't understand it. I still don't. And it bothered me. It hurt me. With time, it got harder and harder to keep blaming the guys, and I eventually came to the conclusion that there was something wrong with me. That maybe I was simply meant to live my life alone.

—Nicholas Sparks in The Lucky One

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You don't need anything from anyone, unless it's the kind of love that chooses you first, always.

—Tarryn Fisher in F*ck Love

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I thought again how you could never really know what you were seeing with just a glance, in motion, passing by. Good or bad, right or wrong. There was always so much more.

—Sarah Dessen in Just Listen

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Everybody tells jokes, but we still need comedians.

—Jimmy Wales

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Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

—Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

—William Wordsworth

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Life isn't fair. It's taken me a while to get that. It's always going to disappoint you in some way or another. You'll make plans, and it'll push you in another direction. You will love people, and they'll be taken away no matter how hard you fight to keep them. You'll try for something and won't get it. You don't have to find meaning in it; you don't have to try to change things. You just have to accept the things that are out of your hands and try to take care of yourself. That's your job.

—Alexandra Bracken in Never Fade

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The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

—Ernest Hemingway

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The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

—Lucille Ball

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Exit, pursued by a bear.

—William Shakespeare

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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

—Nathaniel Hawthorne

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That's what makes us human. Feeling things–even pain. That's what music does, if it's any good: it makes you feel things. You listen to a song, and somehow you know what that person was going through when he wrote it. Or maybe it puts a name to what you're feeling. And because you can share that, you don't feel so alone.

—Cinda Williams Chima in The Sorcerer Heir

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