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No, there's nothing half so sweet in life
As love's young dream.

Thomas Moore

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Moore, Thomas. "Love's Young Dream." A Selection of Irish Melodies. London: J. Power's, 1808.

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Everything that grows
Holds in perfection but a little moment.

William Shakespeare

Sonnet 15

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Shakespeare, William. Shake-speares Sonnets. London: Thomas Thorpe, 1609, sonnet 15, I. 1.

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Shakespeare, William. "The Sonnets." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, sonnet 15.

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Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.

Marcel Proust

In Search of Lost Time

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Proust, Marcel. Sodom and Gomorrah. Paris: Grasset/Gallimard, 1921-1922.

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Proust, Marcel. Sodom and Gomorrah, translated by John Sturrock. Penguin Classics, 2005.

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But it pleased God to visit us then with death daily, and with so general a disease that the living were scarce able to bury the dead.

William Bradford

Of Plymouth Plantation

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Bradford, William. Letter to Thomas Weston. 1621.

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Bradford, William. Of Plymouth Plantation: 1620-1647. Random House, 1981, ch. 12.

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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.

Samuel Beckett

Murphy

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Beckett, Samuel. Murphy. Routledge, 1938, ch. 1.

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So, the psychiatrist has a patient, draws a circle, what do you think of when you see this? He says, sex. That's not the joke, wait a second. He draws a picture of a tree, what do you think of when you see it? Sex. He draws a picture of a car, house, sex, sex, sex. The doctor says, you know, you're obsessed with sex. The patient says, well you're the one drawing all the dirty pictures!

What About Bob?

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What About Bob? Directed by Frank Oz, Touchstone Pictures/Touchwood Pacific Partners, 1991.

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I guess when you're young, you just believe there'll be many people with whom you'll connect with. Later in life, you realize it only happens a few times.

Before Sunset

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Before Sunset. Directed by Richard Linklater, Castle Rock Entertainment/ Detour Filmproduction/Columbia Pictures, 2004.

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For present joys are more to flesh and blood
Than a dull prospect of a distant good.

John Dryden

The Hind and the Panther: A Poem, in Three Parts

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Dryden, John. The Hind and the Panther: A Poem, in Three Parts. London: Jacob Tonson, 1687, pt. 3, I. 363.

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Dryden, John. "The Hind and the Panther." Selected Poems. Penguin Classics, 2002, pt. 3, I. 363.

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Sisyphyus, proletarian of the gods, powerless and rebellious, knows the whole extent of his wretched condition: it is what he thinks of during his descent. The lucidity that was to constitute his torture at the same time crowns his victory. There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Albert Camus

The Myth of Sisyphus

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Camus, Albert. Le Mythe de Sisyphe [The Myth of Sisyphus]. Éditions Gallimard, 1942.

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Men and women can't be friends because the sex part always gets in the way.

Billy Crystal

When Harry Met Sally…

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When Harry Met Sally... Directed by Rob Reiner, Nelson Entertainment/Castle Rock Entertainment, 1989.

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Discovering the truth about ourselves is a lifetime's work, but it's worth the effort.

Fred Rogers

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Rogers, Fred. The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember. Hachette Books, 2019, p. 13.

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Wealth I ask not, hope nor love,
Nor a friend to know me;
All I ask, the heaven above
And the road below me.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. "The Vagabond." Songs of Travel. Chatto & Windus, 1896, st. 4.

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. "The Vagabond." The Collected Poems of Robert Louis Stevenson, edited by Roger C. Lewis. Edinburgh University Press, 2019, st. 4.

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When making a business decision, the only color that matters, Jesus, is green.

He Got Game

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He Got Game. Directed by Spike Lee, Touchstone Pictures/40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, 1998.

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It is an heretic that makes the fire,
Not she which burns in 't.

William Shakespeare

The Winter's Tale

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Shakespeare, William. The Winter's Tale. The King's Men, 1611, Globe Theatre, London, England, UK, act 2, sc. 3.

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Shakespeare, William. "The Winter's Tale." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 2, sc. 3.

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The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their will, and lives only by their will.

John Marshall

Cohens v. Virginia

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Marshall, John. United States, Supreme Court. Cohens v. Virginia. United States Reports, vol. 19, 4 Mar. 1821, pp. 264-448. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/19/264/.

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Vitality in a woman is a blind fury of creation.

George Bernard Shaw

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Shaw, George Bernard. "Man and Superman." Man and Superman, John Bull's Other Island, and Major Barbara. Oxford University Press, 2021, act 1. Originally published by Archibald and Constable & Co., Ltd, 1903.

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But I am gonna ask you questions and every time you don't give me answers, I'm gonna cut something off and I promise you, they will be things you will miss! Give me your other arm!

Kill Bill: Volume 1

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Kill Bill: Volume 1. Directed by Quentin Tarantino. A Band Apart, 2003.

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Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard, Master Harry-every man of every nation has done that-'tis the living up to it that's difficult.

William Makepeace Thackeray

The History of Henry Esmond

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Thackeray, William Makepeace. The History of Henry Esmond, Esq., A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1852, bk. 1, ch. 6.

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