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Nietzsche, Friedrich. Götzen-Dämmerung, oder, Wie man mit dem Hammer philosophiert [Twilight of the Idols, or, How to Philosophize with a Hammer]. 1889.

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Nietzsche, Frederick. Twilight of the Idols and the Anti-Christ: or How to Philosophize with a Hammer, translated by Walter Kaufman and R. J. Hollingdale. Penguin Classics, 1990.

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Nietzsche, Friedrich. Der Antichrist [The Antichrist]. 1895, no. 57.

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Nietzsche, Friedrich. "The Anti-Christ." The Twilight of the Idols and Anti-Christ, translated by R. J. Hollingdale. Penguin Classics, 1990, no. 57.

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.

Louisa May Alcott

Little Women

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Alcott, Louisa May. Little Women. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1868, ch. 44.

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Alcott, Louisa May. Little Women. Puffin Books, 2014, ch. 44.

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Shakespeare, William. "As You Like It." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 2, sc. 1.

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Shakespeare, William. "As You Like It." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 2, sc. 1.

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Bukowski, Charles. How Is Your Heart. c. 1994.

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Quarles, Francis. Hadassa; or the History of Queene Ester. London: Richard Moore, 1621, sec. 9, meditation 9.

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Carlyle, Thomas. Chartism. London: James Frases, 1840, ch. 5.

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Carlyle, Thomas. "Chartism." Thomas Carlyle: Selected Writings. Penguin Classics, 2015.

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Oliver, Mary. “The Uses of Sorrow.” Thirst. Beacon Press, 2006, I. 1.

Difficulties are just things to overcome after all.

Ernest Shackleton

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Shackleton, Ernest. Diary entry. 11 Dec. 1908.

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Trollope, Anthony. Orley Farm. London: Chapman and Hall, 1861-1862.

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Julian of Norwich. Revelations of Divine Love. London, c. 1670.

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Julian of Norwich. Revelations of Divine Love, translated by Barry Windeatt. Oxford University Press, 2015, ch. 68.

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (John 16:33).

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Seneca the Younger. Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium [Moral Letters to Lucilius]. c. 65 AD.

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Seneca, Lucius Annaeus. Letters on Ethics, translated by Margaret Graver and A. A. Long. University of Chicago Press, 2017.

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Publilius Syrus. Sententiae. c. 1st century BC.

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Heraclitus. Fragments. 5th century BC, DK B110.

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Heraclitus. "Heraclitus of Ephesus." The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and Sophists, translated by Robin Waterfield. Oxford University Press, 2009, DK B110.

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Seneca the Younger. "On Providence." Moral Essays. 1st century, ch. 5, sect. 10.

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Seneca the Younger. "On Providence." Dialogues and Essays, translated by John Davie. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 5, sect. 10.

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Cather, Willa. The Song of the Lark. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1915, pt. 4, ch. 8.

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Cather, Willa. The Song of the Lark. Vintage, 1999, pt. 4, ch. 8.

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Bunyan, John. The Pilgrim's Progress from this World to that Which is to Come. London: Nathaniel Ponder, 1678, pt. 2.

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Bunyan, John. The Pilgrim's Progress, edited by Roger Pooley. Penguin Classics, 2009, pt. 2.

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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A League of Their Own. Directed by Penny Marshall, Parkway Productions, 1992.