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4391 Novelist Quotes

With one image he would make that beauty explode into me.

Image Beauty Explore
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In my cowardice I became at once a man, and did what all we grown men do when face to face with suffering and injustice; I preferred not to see them

Cowardice Man Grown Men
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Mystery is not about traveling to new places but about looking with new eyes.

Mystery Traveling New Places
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And then, gradually, the memory of her would fade away, I had forgotten the girl of my dream.
Memory Girl Fade-away Forgotten
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But sometimes the future is latent in us without our knowing it, and our supposedly lying words foreshadow an imminent reality.

Sometimes Future Latent Supposedly
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We don't receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves.

Receive Wisdom Discover Ourselves
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Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.

Reality Never Towards Road
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But when one believes in the reality of things, making them visible by artificial means is not quite the same as feeling that they are close at hand.

Believe Reality Visible Artificial
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.

Must Never Afraid Truth
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People don't know when they are happy. They're never so unhappy as they think they are.

People Happy Never Think
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Most of our faculties lie dormant because they can rely upon Habit, which knows what there is to be done and has no need of their services.

Habit Faculties Dormant Done
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The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up what remains.

Time Passions Disposal Expand
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.

Bonds Unite Person Exist
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With women who do not love us, as with the

Women Love Knowledge Hope
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It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.

Always Passing Mind State
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In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things

Separation Really Love Tender
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One says the things which one feels the need to say, and which the other will not understand: one speaks for oneself alone.

Say Things Feels Other
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Love is a reciprocal torture.

Love Reciprocal Torture
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It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.

People Dead Affection Faint
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls bloom.
Grateful People Make Charming
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The truth is that every morning war is declared afresh. And the men who wish to continue it are as guilty as the men who began it, more guilty perhaps, for the latter perhaps did not foresee all its horrors.

Truth Morning War Declared
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I have friends wherever there are companies of trees, wounded but not vanquished, which huddle together with touching obstinacy to implore an inclement and pitiless sky.

Friends Companies Wounded Vanquished
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Every person is destroyed when we cease to see him; after which his next appearance is a new creation, different from that which immediately preceded it, if not from them all.

Person Destroyed Cease See
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Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

Adult Age Am Another
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Reality simply consists of different points of view.

Consists Different Points Reality
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Genres aren't closed boxes. Stuff flows back and forth across the borders all the time.

Across Back Borders Boxes
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Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome.

Credentials Establish Heroes Heroic
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Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.

Better Means Optimism Pessimism
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We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.
Anomaly Born Leader Man
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In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

Day Dirt End End Of The Day
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Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn't even know you'd done.

After Been Caught Consequences
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I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.

Come Finally Hope Human
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A word after a word after a word is power.
After Power Word
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Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.

Am Because Being Capable
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If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

Canada Illness Mental Mental Illness
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A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.

Divorce Less Like Survive
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An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.

Blindness Eye Eye For An Eye
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If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.

Any Because Catholicism Choose
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Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

Because Get Justice Might
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Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.

Art Does Dream Examine Itself
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I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

Because Consider Forgotten Freedom Joy
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A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.

Built Evolved Failures Process
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You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.

Amount Certain Need Nerve
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This above all, to refuse to be a victim.

Above Refuse Victim
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For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.

Am I Am Now Older
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War is what happens when language fails.

Fails Happens Language War
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Gardening is not a rational act.
Act Gardening Rational
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Canada was built on dead beavers.

Beaver Built Canada Dead
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The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

Answers Depend Get Literature
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We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups.

Away Grownups Now Running
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