There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

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As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into an enormous insect.

Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

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We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories.

Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

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Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.

 William Goldman, The Princess Bride

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Why did you do all this for me?’ he asked. ‘I don’t deserve it. I’ve never done anything for you.’ ‘You have been my friend,’ replied Charlotte. ‘That in itself is a tremendous thing.’

E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

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People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment.

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Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.

Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

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It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

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Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
― Stephen King
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Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!


J.R.R. Tolkien


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