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A woman without a man cannot meet a man, any man, of any age, without thinking, even if it's for a half-second, Perhaps this is the man.

Doris Lessing

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Lessing, Doris. The Golden Notebook. Michael Joseph, 1962.

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One can't love humanity. One can only love people.

Graham Greene

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Greene, Graham. The Ministry of Fear. William Heinemann, 1943, bk. 3, ch. 2.

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I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.

George Meredith

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Meredith, George. The Ordeal of Richard Feverel: A History of Father and Son. London: Chapman and Hall, 1859, ch. 1.

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Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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Le Guin, Ursula K. The Lathe of Heaven. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1971. Originally published in Amazing Stories, Mar. 1971 and May 1971.

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He felt like somebody had taken the lid off life and let him look at the works.

Dashiell Hammett

Black Mask

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Hammett, Dashiell. "The Maltese Falcon." Black Mask, Sept. 1929 - Jan. 1930. Serial.

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Hammett, Dashiell. "The Maltese Falcon." The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man, Red Harvest. Everyman's Library, 2000, ch. 7.

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There is a sense in which we are all each other's consequences.

Wallace Stegner

All the Little Live Things

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Stegner, Wallace. All the Little Live Things. Penguin Publishing Group, 1991.

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Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.

Josephine Hart

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Hart, Josephine. Damage. Alfred A. Knopf/Chatto & Windus, 1991, ch. 12.

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He felt the loyalty we all feel to unhappiness—the sense that that is where we really belong.

Graham Greene

The Heart of the Matter

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Greene, Graham. The Heart of the Matter. William Heinemann/The Viking Press, 1948, bk. 2, pt. 2, sec. 1.

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As you pass from the tender years of youth into harsh and embittered manhood, make sure you take with you on your journey all the human emotions! Don't leave them on the road, for you will not pick them up afterwards!

Nikolai Gogol

Dead Souls

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Gogol, Nikolai. Мёртвые души [Dead Souls]. 1842, pt. 1, ch. 6.

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Gogol, Nikolai. Dead Souls, translated Robert A. Maguire. Penguin Classics, 2004, pt. 1, ch. 6.

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What we call real estate—the solid ground to build a house on—is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The House of Seven Gables

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The House of the Seven Gables: A Romance. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851, ch. 17.

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The House of the Seven Gables, edited by Robert S. Levine. W. W. Norton & Company, 2020, ch. 17.

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To be like everyone else. Isn't that what we all want in the end?

Carol Shields

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Shields, Carol. Larry's Party. Knopf Canada, 1997, ch. 9.

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There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream—a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought—a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!

Mark Twain

The Mysterious Stranger

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Twain, Mark. The Mysterious Stranger. Harper & Brothers, 1916, ch. 11

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Twain, Mark. "The Mysterious Stranger." Mark Twain: The Gilded Age and Later Novels, edited by Hamlin Hill. Library of America, 2002, ch. 11.

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A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

Douglas Adams

Mostly Harmless

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Adams, Douglas. Mostly Harmless. William Heinemann/Harmony Books, 1992, ch. 12.

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Man is a Tool-using Animal...without Tools he is nothing, with Tools he is all.

Thomas Carlyle

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Carlyle, Thomas. "Sartor Resartus." Fraser's Magazine, Nov. 1833–Aug. 1834. Serial.

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Carlyle, Thomas. Sartor Resartus, edited by Kerry McSweeney and Peter Sabor. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 1, ch. 5.

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They say travel broadens the mind; but you must have the mind.

G.K. Chesterton

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Chesterton, G.K. "The Poet and the Lunatics." Nash's Magazine, 1921, ch. 3.

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Chesterton, G.K. The Poet and the Lunatics. Dover, 2010, ch. 3.

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What a woman thinks of women is the test of her nature.

George Meredith

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Meredith, George. Diana of the Crossways. London: Chapman and Hall, 1885. Originally published in Fortnightly, 1884.

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No matter how honestly you open up to someone, there are still some things you can’t reveal.

Haruki Murakami

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

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Murakami, Haruki. 色彩を持たない多崎つくると、彼の巡礼の年 [Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage]. Bungeishunju, 2013.

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Reality denied comes back to haunt.

Philip K. Dick

Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said

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Dick, Philip K. Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said. Doubleday, 1974, ch. 15.

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Who knows when some slight shock, disturbing the delicate balance between social order and thirsty aspiration, shall send the skyscrapers in our cities toppling?

Richard Wright

Native Son

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Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Brothers, 1940, bk. 3.

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He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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