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It’s a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind.
Naguib Mahfouz
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I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. And I am horribly limited.
Sylvia Plath
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In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
Margaret Atwood
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In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we’re done with it, we may find - if it’s a good novel - that we’re a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little… But it’s very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Sometimes I’m terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Nothing more exhilarating (he wrote) than saving yourself by the simple act of waking.
Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
