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"If to the moment I shall ever say: Ah, linger on, thou art so fair! Then may you fetters on me lay, Then will I perish, then and there!"
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Faust"
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""He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt, and his only mission each time he went up was to come down alive."
-Joseph Heller "Catch-22"
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"It is the stillest words that bring on the storm. Thoughts that come on doves’ feet guide the world."
-Friedrich Nietzsche "Thus Spoke Zarathustra"
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“We study the problem. We’ve been studying it for damn well near a century, yes, but we get no further with our studies. You’ve got a good home here, good loving parents. You’ve got not too bad of a brain! Is it some devil that crawls inside of you?”
-Anthony Burgess "A Clockwork Orange"
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"What is a poet? An unhappy man who conceals profound anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so fashioned that when sighs and groans pass over them they sound like beautiful music."
-Søren Kierkegaard "Either/Or"
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"It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things are."
-Søren Kierkegaard "The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard"
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"Let you alone! That's all very well, but how can I leave myself alone? We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?"
-Ray Bradbury "Fahrenheit 451"
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"How terrible it is when you say I love you and the person on the other end shouts back 'What?'"
-J. D. Salinger "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters"
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