If only it were possible to love without injury – fidelity isn’t enough: I had been faithful to Anne and yet I had injured her. The hurt is in the act of possession: we are too small in mind and body to possess another person without pride or to be possessed without humiliation. In a way I was glad that my wife had struck out at me again – I had forgotten her pain for too long, and this was the only kind of recompense I could give her. Unfortunately the innocent are always involved in any conflict. Always, everywhere, there is some voice crying from a tower.

Graham Greene

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People should decide on the books' meanings for themselves. They'll find a story that attacks such things as cruelty, oppression, intolerance, unkindness, narrow-mindedness, and celebrates love, kindness, open-mindedness, tolerance, curiosity, human intelligence.

Philip Pullman

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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

Simone de Beauvoir

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Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.

Natalie Babbitt

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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Philosophy is common sense with big words.

James Madison

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There are no ordinary moments.

Dan Millman

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The journey is what brings us happiness not the destination.

Dan Millman

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Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

Albert Camus

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I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the beauty it brings about. For without pain, there can be no pleasure. Without sadness, there can be no happiness. Without misery there can be no beauty. And without these, life is endless, hopeless, doomed and damned.
Adult. You have become adult.

Harlan Ellison

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