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We walked up to the house and stood some minutes watching the swallows that flew about restlessly, and flung their shadows upon the sunbright walls of the old building; the shadows glanced and twinkled, interchanged and crossed each other, expanded and shrunk up, appeared and disappeared every instant.

Dorothy Wordsworth

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Wordsworth, Dorothy. Journal Entry. 16 Aug. 1803.

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Wordsworth, Dorothy. "Journal entry 16 Aug. 1803." Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland. Yale University Press, 1997.

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O Life! how pleasant in thy morning,
Young Fancy's rays the hills adorning!
Cold-pausing Caution's lesson scorning,
We frisk away,
Like school-boys at th' expected warning,
To joy and play.

Robert Burns

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Burns, Robert. "Epistle to James Smith." Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. Kilmarnock: John Wilson, 1786, st. 16.

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Burns, Robert. "To James Smith." Robert Burns: Selected Poems, edited Carol Mcguirk. Penguin Classics, 1994, I. 16.

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Tracy, you're a very intelligent girl. You have a lot of admirable qualities. But one day maybe you'll learn that being smart and doing whatever you need to do to get ahead, and yet stepping on other people to get there... Well, there's a whole lot more to life than that, and in the end, you're only cheating yourself.

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Election. Directed by Alexander Payne. MTV Productions and Bona Fide Productions, 1999.

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The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; thats the essence of inhumanity.

George Bernard Shaw

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Shaw, George Bernard. The Devil's Disciple. 4 Oct. 1897, Fifth Avenue Theatre, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA, act 2.

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Shaw, George Bernard. "The Devil's Disciple." Arms and the Man, the Devil's Disciple, and Caesar and Cleopatra. Oxford UP, 2021, act 2.

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The trouble
with being best man is, you don't get a chance
to prove it.

Les A. Murray

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Murray, Les A. The Boys Who Stole the Funeral: A Novel Sequence. Angus & Robertson Publishers, 1980.

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Our greatest glory is, not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Oliver Goldsmith

The Citizen of the World

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Goldsmith, Oliver. "Letter VII." The Citizen of the World; or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher. Dublin: George and Alex. Ewing, 1762. Originally published in The Public Ledger, Jan. 1760 - Aug. 1761.

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Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it.

Ephesians 5:25

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Ephesians 5:25).

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If thou wilt ease thine heart
Of lover and all its smart
Then sleep, dear, sleep.

Thomas Lovell Beddoes

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Beddoes, Thomas Lovell. Death's Jest-book; Or, The Fool's Tragedy. London: William Pickering, 1850.

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Beddoes, Thomas Lovell. Death's Jest Book. Routledge, 2020.

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Look at that sea, girls-all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds.

L.M. Montgomery

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Anne of Green Gables

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Montgomery, L. M. Anne of Green Gables. L. C. Page & Co., 1908.

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Montgomery, L. M. Anne of Green Gables. Puffin Books, 2014.

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We must soften into a credulity below the milkiness of infancy, to think all men virtuous. We must be tainted with a malignity truly diabolical, to believe all the world to be equally wicked and corrupt.

Edmund Burke

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Burke, Edmund. Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents. London: J. Dodsley, 1770.

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Burke, Edmund. "Thoughts on the Present Discontents." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009.

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Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base.

George S. Patton

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Patton, George Smith. Address to the troops. 5 June 1944, England, UK.

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Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism-victimless collecting, as it were... In a world that is well on its way to becoming one vast quarry, the collector becomes someone engaged in a pious work of salvage. The course of modern history having already sapped the traditions and shattered the living wholes in which precious objects once found their place, the collector may now in good conscience go about excavating the choicer, more emblematic fragments.

Susan Sontag

Melancholy Objects

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Sontag, Susan. "Melancholy Objects." The New York Review of Books, 18 Apr. 1974.

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Whether we like it or not, change comes, and the greater the resistance, the greater the pain.

Alan Watts

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Watts, Alan. Become What You Are. Shambhala, 1995.

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Love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.

Hermann Hesse

Peter Camenzind

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Hesse, Herman. Peter Camenzind. Samuel Fischer, 1904.

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Hesse, Herman. Peter Camenzind, translated by Michael Roloff. Picador, 2003.

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Look at it this way, you know. A man takes a job, you know? And that job—I mean, like that—that becomes what he is. You know, like—you do a thing and that's what you are. Like I've been a cabbie for seventeen years. Ten years at night. I still don't own my own cab. You know why? Because I don't want to. That must be what I want. To be on the night shift drivin' somebody else's cab. You understand? I mean, you become—you get a job, you become the job. One guy lives in Brooklyn. One guy lives in Sutton Place. You got a lawyer. Another guy's a doctor. Another guy dies. Another guy gets well. You know, people are born. I envy you. Go on, get laid, get drunk. Do anything. You got no choice, anyway. I mean, we're all fucked. More or less, ya know.

Taxi Driver

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Taxi Driver. Directed by Martin Scorsese, Bill/Phillips Productions/Italo/Judeo Productions, 1976.

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Achilles exists only through Homer. Take away the art of writing from this world, and you will probably take away its glory.

François-Rene de Chateaubriand

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De Chateaubriand, François-René. Les Natchez. c. 1826, preface.

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I would be married, but I'de have no Wife,
I would be married to a single Life.

Richard Crashaw

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Crashaw, Richard. "On Marriage." Steps to the Temple. Humphrey Moseley, 1646, I. 1.

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One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

Andre Gide

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Gide, Andre. Les Faux-monnayeurs [The Counterfeiters]. Nouvelle Revue Francaise, 1925, pt. 3, ch. 15.

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Gide, Andre. The Counterfeiters, translated by Dorothy Bussy. Penguin Books, 1990, pt. 3, ch. 15.

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Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was also still, wonderfully still and vast like the cold stillness of space in which the stars revolve.

Hermann Hesse

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Hesse, Herman. Der Steppenwolf [The Steppenwolf]. S. Fischer Verlag, 1927.

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Hesse, Herman. Steppenwolf, translated by Basil Creighton. Picador, 2002.

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All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated.

John Donne

Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, and severall steps in my Sicknes

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Donne, John. "Meditation XVII." Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, and severall steps in my Sicknes. London, 1624.

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Donne, John. "Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions." Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions and Death's Duel. Vintage, 1999, meditation 17.

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