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It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.

Peter De Vries

The Mackerel Plaza

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De Vries, Peter. The Mackerel Plaza. Little, Brown and Company, 1958, ch. 1.

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There are only two great diseases in the world to-day—Bolshevism and Americanism; and Americanism is the worse of the two, because Bolshevism only smashes your house or your business or your skull, but Americanism smashes your soul.

D.H. Lawrence

The Plumed Serpent

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Lawrence, D.H. The Plumed Serpent. Martin Secker, 1926, ch. 2.

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If what matters in a person's existence is to accept the inevitable consciously, to taste the good and bad to the full and to make for oneself a more individual, unaccidental and inward destiny alongside one's external fate, then my life has been neither empty nor worthless.

Hermann Hesse

Gertrude

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Hesse, Herman. Getrud [Gertrude]. Albert Langen, 1910.

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Hesse, Herman. Gertrude, translated by Hilda Rosner. Picador, 2005.

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Coupling doesn't always have to do with sex... Two people holding each other up like flying buttresses. Two people depending on each other and babying each other and defending each other against the world outside. Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.

Erica Jong

Fear of Flying

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Jong, Erica. Fear of Flying. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973, ch. 10.

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I say that there is no such thing as moral responsibility for past acts, no such thing as real justice in punishing them, for the reason that human beings are not stationary existences, but changing, growing, incessantly progressive organisms, which in no two moments are the same. Therefore justice, whose only possible mode of proceeding is to punish in present time for what is done in past time, must always punish a person more or less similar to, but never identical with, the one who committed the offence, and therein must be no justice.

Edward Bellamy

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Bellamy, Edward. Dr. Heidenhoff's Process. D. Appleton & Company, 1880, ch. 11.

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A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

Roald Dahl

The Twits

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Dahl, Roald. The Twits. Jonathan Cape, 1980.

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But there is good and reason in us, in human beings, with whom fortune plays, and we can be stronger than nature and fate, if only for a few hours. And we can draw close to one another in times of need, understand and love one another, and live to comfort each other. And sometimes, when the black depths are silent, we can do even more. We can then be gods for moments, stretch out a commanding hand and create things which were not there before and which, when they are created, continue to live without us.

Hermann Hesse

Gertrude

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Hesse, Herman. Getrud [Gertrude]. Albert Langen, 1910.

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Hesse, Herman. Gertrude, translated by Hilda Rosner. Picador, 2005.

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In those days, when every male who could stand half-way erect was being shipped to Verdun to undergo a radical change of posture from the vertical to the eternal horizontal.

Günter Grass

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The Tin Drum

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Die Blechtrommel [The Tin Drum]. Directed by Volker Schlöndorff. Franz Seitz Filmproduktion/Bioskop Film, 1959.

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I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

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Foer. Jonathan Safran. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close. Houghton Mifflin, 2005.

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Out of the dark we came, into the dark we go... Life is nothing. Life is all. It is the hand with which we hold off death. It is the glow-worm that shines in the night-time and is black in the morning; it is the white breath of the oxen in the winter; it is the little shadow that runs across the grass and loses itself at sunset.

H. Rider Haggard

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King Solomon's Mines

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Haggard, H. Rider. King Solomon's Mines. London: Cassell and Company, 1886.

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Haggard, H. Rider. King Solomon's Mines. Penguin Classics, 2008.

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Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility. Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on its own dunghill.

Richard Aldington

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The Colonel's Daughter

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Aldington, Richard. The Colonel's Daughter. Chatto and Windus, 1931.

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We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it.

Lawrence Durrell

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Durrell, Lawrence. Justine. Faber & Faber/E. P. Dutton, 1957.

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The mystery of life is not solved by success, which is an end in itself, but in failure, in perpetual struggle, in becoming.

Patrick White

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White, Patrick. Voss. Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1957, ch. 10.

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Time has too much credit... It is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at all. And sometimes when it seems to, no healing has been necessary.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

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Compton-Burnett, Ivy. Darkness and Day. David & Charles/Alfred A. Knopf, 1951, ch. 7.

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I believe that we are lost here in America, but I believe we shall be found.

Thomas Wolfe

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Wolfe, Thomas. You Can't Go Home Again. Harper & Row, 1940, ch. 48.

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Hold fast the time! Guard it, watch over it, every hour, every minute! Unregarded it slips away, like a lizard, smooth, slippery, faithless, a pixy wife. Hold every moment sacred. Give each clarity and meaning, each the weight of thine awareness, each its true and due fulfillment.

Thomas Mann

Lotte in Weimar

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Mann, Thomas. Lotte in Weimar [The Beloved Returns]. Stockholm: Gottfried Bermann Fischer, 1939, ch. 7.

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Wear dark clothes after 6 p. M. Eat fresh fish for breakfast when available. Avoid kneeling in unheated stone churches. Ecclesiastical dampness causes premature gray hair. Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house. Courage tastes of blood. Stand up straight. Admire the world. Relish the love of a gentle woman. Trust in the Lord.

John Cheever

The Wapshot Chronicle

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Cheever, John. The Wapshot Chronicle. Harper & Brothers, 1957, ch. 37.

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If a man has a talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Thomas Wolfe

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Wolfe, Thomas. The Web and the Rock. Harper & Sons, 1939, ch. 29.

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Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibers.

Victor Hugo

Les Miserables

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Hugo, Victor. Les Misérables. Vol. 2, Bruxelles: A. Lacroix, Verboeckhoven & Cie, 1862, bk. 5, ch. 10.

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Hugo, Victor. Les Misérables. Wordsworth Editions, 1994, pt. 2, bk. 5, ch. 10.

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I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it."

David Foster Wallace

Infinite Jest

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Wallace, David Foster. Infinite Jest. Little, Brown and Company, 1996.

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