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Walker, Alice. The Color Purple. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982.

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If you inquire what the people are like here, I must answer, "The same as everywhere!"

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Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Die Leiden des jungen Werthers [The Sorrows of Young Werther]. Leipzig: Weygand'sche Buchhandlung, 1774.

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Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. "The Sorrows of Young Werther." The Sorrows of Young Werther and Selected Writings, translated by Catherin Hutter. Signet, 2013.

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Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.

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Walker, Alice. The Color Purple. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982.

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I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.

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Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Die Leiden des jungen Werthers [The Sorrows of Young Werther]. Leipzig: Weygand'sche Buchhandlung, 1774.

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Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. "The Sorrows of Young Werther." The Sorrows of Young Werther and Selected Writings, translated by Catherin Hutter. Signet, 2013.

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No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do not know where they come from or where they are going, act as rarely as they do according to genuine motives, and are as thoroughly governed as they are by biscuits and cake and the rod.

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Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Die Leiden des jungen Werthers [The Sorrows of Young Werther]. Leipzig: Weygand'sche Buchhandlung, 1774.

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Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. "The Sorrows of Young Werther." The Sorrows of Young Werther and Selected Writings, translated by Catherin Hutter. Signet, 2013.

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Should I live for centuries, the sweet period of my youth would not be reborn, nor effaced from my memory.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Lettres de Deux Amans, habitans d'une petite Ville au pied des Alpes [Letters from two lovers, living in a small town at the foot of the Alps]. Amsterdam: Marc-Michel Rey, 1761, pt. 6, letter 7.

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Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Julie, or the New Heloise, translated by Philip Stewart and Jean Vache. Dartmouth College Press, 1997, pt. 6, letter 7.

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I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it… People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.

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Have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God.

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Walker, Alice. The Color Purple. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982.

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A grown child is a dangerous thing.

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Walker, Alice. The Color Purple. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982.

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If triangles were to make to themselves gods, they would give them three sides.

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Montesquieu. Rica to Uzbek. 14th of the moon of Saphar, 1714.

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Must it ever be thus-that the source of our happiness must also be the fountain of our misery? The full and ardent sentiment which animated my heart with the love of nature, overwhelming me with a torrent of delight, and which brought all paradise before me, has now become an insupportable torment, a demon which perpetually pursues and harrasses me.

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Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Die Leiden des jungen Werthers [The Sorrows of Young Werther]. Leipzig: Weygand'sche Buchhandlung, 1774.

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Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. "The Sorrows of Young Werther." The Sorrows of Young Werther and Selected Writings, translated by Catherin Hutter. Signet, 2013.

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The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.