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“I read that many trees, not only by the side of the road but deep in forests, evidence a new fragility. It is in the air. And the rain, or what is in it. Everything alive begins to seem frail, everything. ”

-Susan Griffin

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“Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.”

-Strictly Personal, Sydney J. Harris

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“Scars are stories, history written on the body.”

-Kathryn Harrison

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“When I am right, no one remembers. When I am wrong, no one forgets.”

-Doug Harvey

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“Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”

-Nathaniel Hawthorne

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“Because a mind is a wonderful thing to twist.”

-Peversions of Science, HBO promotion

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“If you're going to be shot, whose side do you expect me to be on?”

-Catch-22, Joseph Heller

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“Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.”

-Catch-22, Joseph Heller

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“Nothing seemed bizarre anymore in his strange and distorted surroundings.”

-Catch-22, Joseph Heller

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“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”

-Ernest Hemingway

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“What did he fear? It was not fear or dread. It was a nothing that he knew too well. It was all a nothing and man was nothing to. [...] Some lived in it and never felt it but he knew it was all nada y pues nada y nada y pues nada. Our nada who are in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.”

-A Clean, Well Lighted Place, Ernest Hemingway

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“All things truly wicked start from an innocence.”

-A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway

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“The day had gone by just as days go by. I had killed it in accordance with my primitive and retiring way of life.”

-Steppenwolf: A Novel, Hermann Hesse

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“Scars are wisdom in disguise.”

-Napolean Hill

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“Things were rough all over, but it was better that way. That way you could tell the other guy was human, too.”

-The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton

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“I was perpetually grief-stricken when I finished a book, and would slide down from my sitting position on the bed, put my cheek on the pillow and sigh for a long time. It seemed there would never be another book. It was all over, the book was dead. It lay in its bent cover by my hand. What was the use? Why bother dragging the weight of my small body down to dinner? Why move? Why breathe? The book had left me, and there was no reason to go on.”

-Wasted, Marya Hornbacher

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“First use six or eight thickness' of Kleenex pulled on at time from the slot in the box... then fit them over the doorknob and open the bathroom door. Please leave the bathroom door open so there will be no need to touch anything when you leave.”

-The Kleenex Protocol, Howard Hughes

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“What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore-
And then run?

Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over-
like a syrupy sweet?

Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.

Or does it explode?”

-A Dream Deferred, Langston Hughes

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“Maybe this world is another planet's hell.”

-Aldous Huxley

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“Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And of course stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.”

-Brave New World, Aldous Huxley

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“Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.”

-Samuel Johnson

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“Death is lighter than a feather; duty, heavier than a mountain.”

-The Wheel of Time, Robert Jordan

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“If I should find a way to escape my fate, do I deserve to?”

-The Wheel of Time, Robert Jordan

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“We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.”

-Psychological Reflection, Carl Jung

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“'Because I have to fast, I can't help it,' said the hunger artist. 'What a fellow you are,' said the overseer,'and why can't you help it?' 'Because,'said the hunger artist, lifting his head a little and speaking, with his lips pursed, as if for a kiss, right into the overseer's ear, so that no syllable might be lost, 'because I couldn't find the food I liked. If I had found it, believe me, I should have made no fuss and stuffed myself like you or anyone else.'”

-A Hunger Artist, Franz Kafka

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