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The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

Ernest Hemingway

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Hemingway, Ernest. "A Farewell to Arms." Scribner's Magazine, May 1929 - Oct. 1929, bk. 4, ch. 34.

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Hemingway, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms. Scribners, 1995, bk. 4, ch. 34.

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I don't ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside me there'll always be the person I am to-night.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Tender is the Night

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "Tender is the Night." Scribner's Magazine, Jan. 1934 - Apr. 1934.

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Tender is the Night. Scribners, 1995, ch. 18.

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The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.

David Foster Wallace

Infinite Jest

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

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The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925, ch. 4.

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All collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.

Herman Melville

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

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Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. London: Richard Bentley/New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851, ch. 135.

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Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick or, The Whale. Penguin Classics, 2002, ch. 135.

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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

Marcel Proust

In Search of Lost Time

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Proust, Marcel. Albertine disparue [Albertine Gone]. Paris: Gallimard, 1927.

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Proust, Marcel. The Fugitive, edited and translated by Peter Collier. Penguin Classics, 2021.

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The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.

Willa Cather

O Pioneers!

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Cather, Willa. O Pioneers! Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913, pt. 1, ch. 5.

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Cather, Willa. O Pioneers, edited by Sharon O'Brien. W. W. Norton & Company, 2007, pt. 1, ch. 5.

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There is a weird power in a spoken word... And a word carries far—very far—deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.

Joseph Conrad

Lord Jim

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Conrad, Joseph. "Lord Jim: A Sketch." Blackwood's Magazine. Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, Oct. 1899-Nov. 1900.

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One writes only half the book; the other half is with the reader.

Joseph Conrad

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Conrad, Joseph. Letter to Cunninghame Graham. 5 Aug. 1897.

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Conrad, Joseph. Joseph Conrad's Letters to R. B. Cunninghame Graham. Cambridge University Press, 2011.

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In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination.

Mark Twain

The Autobiography of Mark Twain

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Twain, Mark. The Autobiography of Mark Twain. Harper & Row, 1959, ch. 78.

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Twain, Mark. Autobiography of Mark Twain, edited by Harriet E. Smith, Benjamin Griffin, Victor Fischer, Michael Barry Frank, Amanda Gagel, Sharon K. Goetz, Leslie Diane Myrick, and Christopher M. Ohge. Vol. 3, University of California Press, 2015, ch. 78.

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This above all, to refuse to be a victim.

Margaret Atwood

Surfacing

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Atwood, Margaret. Surfacing. McClelland and Stewart, 1972, ch. 27.

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But then they danced down the street like dingle-dodies, and I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everbody goes "Awww!"

Jack Kerouac

On the Road

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Kerouac, Jack. On the Road. Viking Press, 1957, pt. 1.

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What is Love?... It is the morning and the evening star.

Sinclair Lewis

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Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt Trade Publishers, 1927, ch. 20.

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Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Signet, 2007, ch. 20.

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Be it granted me to behold you again in dying,
Hills of home!

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. Letter to S.R. Crockett. 15 Aug. 1893.

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. Selected Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, edited by Ernest Mehew. Yale University Press, 2001, ch. 15.

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My body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.

James Joyce

Araby

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Joyce, James. “Araby.” Dubliners. Grant Richards Ltd., 1914.

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Joyce, James. “Araby.” Dubliners, edited by Terence Brown. Penguin Classics, 2014.

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Aye, toil we how we may, we all sleep at last on the field. Sleep? Aye, and rust amid greenness; as last year's scythes flung down, and left in the half-cut swaths.

Herman Melville

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

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Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. London: Richard Bentley/New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851, ch. 132.

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Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick or, The Whale. Penguin Classics, 2002, ch. 132.

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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

Cormac McCarthy

No Country for Old Men

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McCarthy, Cormac. No Country for Old Men. Alfred A. Knopf, 2005, ch. 9.

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I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.

James Joyce

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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Joyce, James. "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man." The Egoist, 2 Feb. 1914 - 1 Sept. 1915.

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Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, edited by Seamus Deane. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 5.

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And this is what ye have shipped for, men! to chase that white whale on both sides of land, and over all sides of earth, till he spouts black blood and rolls fin out.

Herman Melville

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

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Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. London: Richard Bentley/New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851, ch. 36.

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Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick or, The Whale. Penguin Classics, 2002, ch. 36.

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One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual. There are open wounds, shrunk sometimes to the size of a pin-prick but wounds still. The marks of suffering are more comparable to the loss of a finger, or of the sight of an eye. We may not miss them, either, for one minute in a year, but if we should there is nothing to be done about it.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Tender is the Night

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "Tender is the Night." Scribner's Magazine, Jan. 1934 - Apr. 1934.

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Tender is the Night. Scribners, 1995, ch. 14.

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