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Perhaps there had been joy for them in finding that sugar could be made from blood.

We don't act like that because we are in good humor we are in a good humor because otherwise we shou...

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Erich Maria RemarqueAll Quiet on the Western Front

...as he discovered in the course of his uncountable years that a lie is more comfortable than doubt...

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Gabriel García MárquezThe Autumn of the Patriarch

Don’t be deceived when they tell you things are better now. Even if there’s no poverty to be seen be...

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There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone...

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Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will," she says.The sky is like a monochromatic contemporar...

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Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert...

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Last night I watched the weather channel, as is my habit. Elsewhere in the world there are floods: r...

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The government of my country snubs honest simplicity but fondles artistic villainy, and I think I mi...

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If you are eager to find the reason I became the Kvothe they tell stories about, you could look ther...

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Sometimes two people will regard each other over a gulf too wide to ever be bridged, and know immedi...

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Maybe it would feel nice. Maybe it wouldn't feel like a betrayal. Besides, who was I betraying, any...

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We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a ve...

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In some neighborhoods, faces mature faster than bodies.

Some ghost of myself still lived back in the days when we'd shared a bed and talked of the future. B...

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