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For there is no friend like a sister
In calm or stormy weather;
To cheer one on the tedious way,
To fetch one if one goes astray,
To lift one if one totters down,
To strengthen while one stands.

Christina Rossetti

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Rossetti, Christina. "Goblin Market." Goblin Market and Other Poems. London: Macmillan, 1862.

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Rossetti, Christina. "Goblin Market." The Complete Poems. Penguin Classics, 2001.

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If by the people you understand the multitude,
the hoi polloi, 'tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in
the wrong: their judgement is a mere lottery.

John Dryden

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Dryden, John. An Essay of Dramatic Poesy. London: Henry Herringman, 1668.

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John Dryden. "An Essay of Dramatic Poesie." John Dryden: Selected Writings, edited by Steven N. Zwicker. Oxford University Press, 2020.

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It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.

Jerome K. Jerome

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Jerome, Jerome K. "On Being Idle." Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow. Field & Tuer, 1886.

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If you know wilderness in the way that you know love, you would be unwilling to let it go.

Terry Tempest Williams

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Williams, Terry Tempest. Statement regarding the Utah public lands management act of 1995. 13 July 1995, Washington, DC, USA.

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Freedom, though it has brought him independence and rationality, has made him isolated and, thereby, anxious and powerless.

Erich Fromm

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Fromm, Erich. Escape from Freedom. Farrar & Rinehart, 1941, foreword.

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Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labors and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world.

J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur

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Crevecoeur, Michel Guillaume Jean [published as J. Hector St. John]. "What Is an American?" Letters from an American Farmer. London: Davies & Davies, 1782.

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Crevecoeur, J. Hector St. John. "Letters From an American Farmer." Letters From an American Farmer and Sketches of Eighteenth-Century America, edited by Albert E. Stone. Penguin Classics, 1981.

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Man for the field and woman for the hearth:
Man for the sword and for the needle she:
Man with the head and woman with the heart:
Man to command and woman to obey;
All else confusion.

Alfred Tennyson

The Princess

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Tennyson, Alfred. The Princess. London: Edward Moxon, 1847, pt. 5, I. 437.

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Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. "The Princess." Alfred Tennyson: The Major Works, edited by Adam Roberts. Oxford University Press, 2009, pt. 5, I. 437.

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She knew how to allure by denying, and to make the gift rich by delaying it.

Anthony Trollope

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Trollope, Anthony. "Phineas Finn." St Paul's Magazine, Oct. 1867-May 1868. Monthly serial.

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Trollope, Anthony. Phineas Finn. Oxford University Press, 2011, ch. 57.

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Living is an illness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Nicolas Chamfort

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Chamfort, Nicolas. Maximes et Pensees. c. 1796, no. 91.

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We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.

Elie Wiesel

Nobel Prize Lecture, 1986

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Wiesel, Elie. Acceptance speech. Nobel Peace Prize ceremony. 10 Dec 1986, Oslo City Hall, Oslo, Norway.

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All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.

Elias Canetti

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Canetti, Elias. Die Provinz des Menschen: Aufzeichnungen 1942-1972. Hanser, 1973.

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Faint heart never won fair lady!
Nothing venture, nothing win-
Blood is thick, but water's thin-
In for a penny, in for a pound-
It's Love that makes the world go round!

W.S. Gilbert

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Gilbert, William Schwenck. Iolanthe; or, The Peer and the Peri. Composed by Arthur Sullivan. 1882, Savoy Theatre, London, England, UK, act 2.

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Time which antiquates Antiquities, and hath an art to make dust of all things.

Sir Thomas Browne

Hydriotaphia

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Browne, Thomas, Sir. "Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial, or, a Discourse of the Sepulchral Urns lately found in Norfolk." Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial, or, a Discourse of the Sepulchral Urns lately found in Norfolk Together with the Garden of Cyrus. London: Henry Brome, 1658, ch. 5.

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Browne, Thomas, Sir. "Hydriotaphia or Urne Buriall (1658)." Thomas Browne: Selected Writings, edited by Kevin Killeen. Oxford University Press, 2018, ch. 5.

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So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. Lay Morals. c. 1872.

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Loveliest of lovely things are they,
On earth, that soonest pass away.
The rose that lives its little hour
Is prized beyond the sculptured flower.

William Cullen Bryant

A Scene on the Banks of the Hudson

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Bryant, William Cullen. "A Scene on the Banks of the Hudson." Poems. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1839, st. 3.

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The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.

Cormac McCarthy

Blood Meridian; or The Evening Redness in the West

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McCarthy, Cormac. Blood Meridian; or The Evening Redness in the West. Random House, 1985, ch. 17.

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You know very well that love is, above all, the gift of oneself!

Jean Anouilh

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Anouilh, Jean. Ardèle ou la Marguerite. Directed by Roland Piétri. 1948, Comédie des Champs-Élysées, Paris, France.

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Anouilh, Jean. "Ardele." Jean Anouilh: Five Plays. Vol. 2, Hill & Wang, 1966.

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Men are like plants; the goodness and flavor of the fruit proceeds from the peculiar soil and exposition in which they grow.

J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur

Letters from an American Farmer

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Crevecoeur, Michel Guillaume Jean [published as J. Hector St. John]. "What Is an American?" Letters from an American Farmer. London: Davies & Davies, 1782.

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Crevecoeur, J. Hector St. John. "Letters From an American Farmer." Letters From an American Farmer and Sketches of Eighteenth-Century America, edited by Albert E. Stone. Penguin Classics, 1981.

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People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls.

Carl Jung

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Jung, Carl. Psychologie un Alchemie [Psychology and Alchemy] Routledge, 1944.

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The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

Henry Miller

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Miller, Henry. "Creative Death." The Wisdom of the Heart. New Directions Books, 1941.

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