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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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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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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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Jung, Carl. "Die Lebenswende." Seelenprobleme der Gegenwart. Rascher, 1931.

Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.

Terry Pratchett

Moving Pictures

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Pratchett, Terry. Moving Pictures. Victor Gollancz, 1990.

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Butler, Samuel. The Way of All Flesh. Grant Richards, 1903, ch. 6.

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Butler, Samuel. The Way of All Flesh. Everyman's Library, 1993, ch. 6.

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Lewis, C.S. "16 March 1955." Letters of C.S. Lewis, edited by W.H. Lewis. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1966. Originally from Letter to Mrs. Johnson, 16 Mar. 1955.

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Mann, Thomas. Der Zauberberg [The Magic Mountain]. S. Fischer Verlag, 1924, ch. 7.

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Mann, Thomas. The Magic Mountain. Everyman's Library, 2005, ch. 7.

No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.

Ellen Glasgow

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Glasgow, Ellen. Address in New York. Modern Language Association meeting. 1936, New York, NY, USA.

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Jung, Carl. Psychologische Typen [Psychological Types]. Rascher Verlag, 1921.

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Jung, Carl. Psychological Types, edited by R. F. C. Hull, translated by H. G. Baynes. Princeton University Press, 1976.

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King Charles. Speech at the Mansion House. London Planning and Communication Committee's Annual Dinner. 1 Dec. 1987, Mansion House, London, England, UK.

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Cohen, Leonard. The Favourite Game. Secker and Warburg, 1963, bk. 3, ch. 8.

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Deliverance. Directed by John Boorman, Elmer Enterprises, 1972.

The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence-free of the network of dead speech.

Freya Stark

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Stark, Freya. Perseus in the Wind. London: John Murray, 1948, ch. 1.

A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.

Michael Kinsley

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Kinsley, Michael. The Guardian. 14 Jan. 1992.

In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Laurence J. Peter

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Peter, Laurence J. The Peter Principle. William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1969, ch. 1.

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Bush, George H. W. Acceptance address at the Republican National Convention. Republican National Convention. 18 Aug. 1988, New Orleans, LA, USA.

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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Directed by John Huston, Warner Bros.-First National, 1948.

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Dewey, John. "The Quest for Certainty: A Study of the Relation of Knowledge and Action." 1928–1929, Edinburgh, Scotland.