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Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a wor...

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If I stayed here, something inside me would be lost forever—something I couldn't afford to lose. It ...

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Haruki MurakamiSouth of the Border

Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea comes the end of our fellowship in Middle...

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Like anyone who goes to college, you're leaving a familiar surrounding and a comfortable environment...

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A rescue mission doesn't involve going in and just taking a child and leaving. You can't just choose...

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I think my attitude to human beings has changed since leaving prison.

Someone who lives always with a plane schedule in the drawer lives on a slightly different calendar.

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Joan DidionGoodbye To All That

When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving place...

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Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave.

I feel like I might start crying and that I'm going to cry pee.

It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.

I leave, and the leaving is so exhilarating I know I can never go back. But then what? Do I just kee...

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They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.

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John IrvingThe World According to Garp

A simple social engineering hack might involve leaving a thumb drive on the pavement close to the dr...

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Now, bring me that horizon.

There are times when you see how ridiculous is this life, how ludicrous it is, you know, leaving you...

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I had turned away from the picture and was going back to the world where events move, men change, li...

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There ain't no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love w...

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Though there had been moments of beauty in it Mariam knew that life for most part had been unkind to...

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Khaled HosseiniA Thousand Splendid Suns

Blue jeans, white shirtWalked into the room you know you made my eyes burnIt was like, James Dean, f...

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It's funny, leaving a place, ain't it?" he said. "You never do know when you'll get back.

Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than ...

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And yet, even as she spoke, she knew that she did not wish to come back. not to stay, not to live. S...

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Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos.

Who can't relate to the idea of leaving one chapter behind and moving on to the next?

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

I walked out. I left. Andy Jankowski had taught me how.

Yes, you're right. It's part of growing up, I suppose. You always have to leave something behind you...

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It’s well known that he who returns never left

...and that, in the end, the most interesting people always leave.

From that first moment of doubt, there was no peace for her; from the time she first imagined leavin...

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My own view is that being a vegetarian or vegan is not an end in itself, but a means towards reducin...

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Have you ever thought how humiliating and distressing it was to be placed upon a sphere? For friends...

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I think change needs to be egoless. It's not about my leaving my fingerprints or a legacy. It's more...

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I've been thinking a lot about space. It was one of those slow-motion realisations how little we are...

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We are past the end of things now, but I don't want to leave.

There's no idea or concept in comedy you could do that hasn't been attacked from some angle. But if ...

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I'm a catalyst for change. You can't be an outsider and be successful over 30 years without leaving ...

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She allowed history to leave her without trying to hold it back, the way children allow a grand para...

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Salman RushdieTwo Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights

I hoped and prayed that they would someday forgive me for leaving them. I hoped and prayed that I wo...

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Sherman AlexieThe Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

When I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction.

I was not sorry for loving Charleston or for leaving it. Geography had made me who I was.

And the danger is that in this move toward new horizons and far directions, that I may lose what I h...

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Sylvia PlathThe Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other every...

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I learnt a lot in government, and I've learnt a lot since leaving government. The kind of journey of...

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It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly me...

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And I remember leaving my place in L.A. and - my father is a big fight fan - and I said, 'Dad, I got...

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White in the moon the long road lies,The moon stands blank above;White in the moon the long road lie...

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My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy s...

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Even as I hold you, I am letting you go.

He was not in the house. He did not come back that night. Days went by, and at last she understood t...

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Audrey NiffeneggerHer Fearful Symmetry

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is s...

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This is how it is in life and love. In life and love we are with people for a while, and then we joi...

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The only thing harder than leaving show business is coming back.

I wanted to start over completely, to begin again as new people with nothing of the past left over. ...

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Dorothy AllisonSkin: Talking about Sex

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone at other times we need the hand-grasp ...

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It is important to feel the anger without judging it, without attempting to find meaning in it. It m...

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The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than stayin...

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So many people prefer to live in drama because it's comfortable. It's like someone staying in a bad ...

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A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other...

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I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go

I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving.

What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.