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A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

Franz Kafka

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Kafka, Franz. Letter to Oskar Pollak. 27 Jan. 1904.

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Kafka, Franz. Franz Kafka: Letters to Friends, Family, and Editors, translated by Richard and Clara Winston. Schocken, 1990.

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But perhaps the universe is suspended on the tooth of some monster.

Anton Chekhov

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Chekhov, Anton. Personal notebook entry. c. 1904.

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Everyone has something to hide.

Anton Chekhov

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Chekhov, Anton. Personal notebook entry. c. 1904.

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To die will be an awfully big adventure.

James M. Barrie

Peter Pan

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Barrie, James M. Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up. Performed by Gerald du Maurier, Nina Boucicault, Joan Burnett, Christine Silver, A.W. Baskcomb, and Alice DuBarry. 27 Dec. 1904, Duke of York's Theatre, Westminster, London, England, UK, act 3.

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Barrie, James M. Peter Pan. Reader's Library Classics, 2022, ch. 8.

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Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired.

Mark Twain

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Twain, Mark. Mark Twain's Notebook, edited by Albert Bigelow Paine. The Mark Twain Company, 1932, ch. 33. Originally from Notebook, c. 1904.

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An uneasy conscience is a hair in the mouth.

Mark Twain

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Twain, Mark. Mark Twain's Notebook, edited by Albert Bigelow Paine. The Mark Twain Company, 1932, ch. 35. Originally from Notebook, c. 1904.

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Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.

Mark Twain

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Twain, Mark. Mark Twain's Notebook, edited by Albert Bigelow Paine. The Mark Twain Company, 1932, ch. 35. Originally from Notebook, c. 1904.

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There is nothing more awe-inspiring than a miracle except the credulity that can take it at par.

Mark Twain

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Twain, Mark. Mark Twain's Notebook, edited by Albert Bigelow Paine. The Mark Twain Company, 1932, ch. 35. Originally from Notebook, c. 1904.

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The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

G.K. Chesterton

The Man who was Thursday: A Nightmare

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Chesterton, G.K. "The Man Who Was Thursday." The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton. Vol. 6, Ignatius Press, 1991. Originally published by J.W. Arrowsmith, 1904.

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The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.

Amelia E. Barr

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The Belle of Bowling Green

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Barr, Amelia E. The Belle of Bowling Green. Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1904.

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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us... We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

Franz Kafka

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Kafka, Franz. Letter to Oskar Pollak. 27 Jan. 1904.

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Kafka, Franz. "To Oscar Pollack, January 27, 1904." Letters to Friends, Family and Editors, translated by Richard and Clara Winston. Schocken, 1990.

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Love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.

Hermann Hesse

Peter Camenzind

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Hesse, Herman. Peter Camenzind. Samuel Fischer, 1904.

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Hesse, Herman. Peter Camenzind, translated by Michael Roloff. Picador, 2003.

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Every time a child says, "I don't believe in fairies," there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.

James M. Barrie

Peter Pan

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Barrie, James M. Peter Pan. Reader's Library Classics, 2022, ch. 3.

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The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and beget.

William Osler

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Osler, William. Science and Immortality. Houghton, Mifflin & Company, 1904, ch. 2.

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Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together.

Joseph Pulitzer

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Pulitzer, Joseph. "The College of Journalism.” The North American Review, May 1904.

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Women and elephants never forget an injury.

Saki

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Saki. "Reginald on Besetting Sins." Westminster Gazette, Sept. 1904.

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Saki. "Reginald on Besetting Sins." Selected Stories of Saki. Everyman's Library, 2017.

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War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.

Thomas Hardy

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Hardy, Thomas. The Dynasts. Vol. 1, MacMillan & Co., 1904, pt. 1, act 1, sc. 5.

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If a lot of cures are suggested for a disease, it means that the disease is incurable.

Anton Chekhov

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Chekhov, Anton. Вишнёвый сад [The Cherry Orchard]. Directed by Konstantin Stanislavski. 17 Jan. 1904, Moscow Art Theatre, Moscow, Russia, act. 1.

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Chekhov, Anton. "The Cherry Orchard." Plays: Ivanov; The Seagull' Uncle Vanya; Three Sisters; The Cherry Orchard, translated by Peter Carson. Penguin Classics, 2002, act 1.

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