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“I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.”
- The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“In my sleep I was looking out from the fourth-floor bedroom at nearby buildings bathed in rain, gleaming with neon and streetlamp colours.”
- Territory of Light by Yūko Tsushima
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"My only worry is lest someday it might come out and be discovered that she is the real one, and belongs to you in the Elysian Fields, like Laura and Petrarch."
- Lotte in Weimar by Thomas Mann
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“To do what is forbidden always has its charms, because we have an indistinct apprehension of something arbitrary and tyrannical in the prohibition.”
- Caleb Williams by William Godwin
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“Thank God for books and music and things I can think about.”
- Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
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“Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime”
- The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler
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“He did not know what to do. Not just now, he thought, not just in this, not just about this, today and tomorrow, but every day on earth.”
- Will You Please be Quiet, Please by Raymond Carver
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“He was forty-two years old, and he could see nothing before him that he wished to enjoy and little behind him that he cared to remember.”
- Stoner by John Williams
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“I am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus on the present.”
- The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
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“For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life.”
- Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus
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“Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself. ”
- Women in Love by DH Lawrence
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“Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.”
- The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
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“This business of living for eternity certainly contributed to capital punishment, brutality, and war.”
- The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
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“I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.”
- The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf
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