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Oh, but self-loathing was just so enticing, so holy, so unassailable! The cynic in him cried, Take my hope! Take my life! Who cares? As if surrender could make up for his failures or help the people he loved. What a lie to think he could whip himself to redemption. What a loathsome lie!

From The Hod King by Josiah Bancroft

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But expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.

From The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson

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If you fall, you fall...sometimes falling teaches us things too. In dreams your often fall before you wake.

From The Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss

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There is a loneliness that can be rocked. Arms crossed, knees drawn up, holding, holding on, this motion, unlike a ship's, smooths and contains the rocker. It's an inside kind--wrapped tight like skin. Then there is the loneliness that roams. No rocking can hold it down. It is alive. On its own. A dry and spreading thing that makes the sound of one's own feet going seem to come from a far-off place.

From Beloved by Toni Morrison

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I’m so tired of being appreciated for my intellect. When will I be able to find a nice boy who just wants me for my body?

From The Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss

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Waking up is the riskiest moment of the day.

From The Castle by Franz Kafka

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Nothing but the truth could break me. What is harder than the truth?

From The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

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This is the difference between telling a story and being in one...the fear.

From The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

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But you of all people should realize how thin the line is between the truth and a compelling lie. Between history and an entertaining story...You know which will win, given time.

From The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

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

From No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

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Well, if God doesn't exist, who's laughing at us?

From The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens it so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the inkpot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing.

From Orlando by Virginia Woolf

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Entropy suffers no reversals. Even now, here, on the edge of time’s end, where so many continue to vanish, we still have not pierced that veil of sentience undone. The first of our common horrors: Death.

From One Rainy Day in May (The Familiar #1) by Mark Z. Danielewski

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In a sense, all poetry is positional: to try to express one's position in regard to the universe embraced by consciousness, is an immemorial urge. The arms of consciousness reach out and grope, and the longer they are the better. Tentacles, not wings, are Apollo's natural members.

By Vladimir Nabokov

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Once we could move skies. We could transform them. We could make them sing. And when we fell into dreams our dreams asked questions and our skies, still singing, answered back.

From One Rainy Day in May (The Familiar #1) by Mark Z. Danielewski

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...as if...[he]...had wished to testify how all pomp is built upon corruption; how the skeleton lies beneath the flesh: how we that dance and sing above must lie below; how the crimson velvet turns to dust; how the ring...loses its ruby and the eye which was so lustrous shines no more.

From Orlando by Virginia Woolf

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Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.

By Chuck Klosterman

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