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What an abyss of uncertainty, whenever the mind feels overtaken by itself; when it, the seeker, is at the same time the dark region through… — Marcel Proust
It was an actual Christmas tree farm. We had, like, 15 acres. It was really fun as a kid. I also spent my summers at… — Taylor Swift
Because I withered under the glare of an actual invitation, I was a firm believer in preventive prevarication--in other words, lying early in order to… — Rachel Cohn
I know this is stupid, but part of me felt like if I could come see you today, if I could convince you to go… — Marissa Meyer
I'm hoping what all sentient beings hope ... that somehow I'm part of something larger than myself, in which I play a role, an actual… — Anne Rice
To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or will happen… — Umberto Eco
Since our technology is really just an extension of ourselves, we don’t have to have contempt for its manipulability in the way we might with… — Jonathan Franzen
You’re crazy,” said her best friend, Angela, as the bell rang to signal five minutes before the first class on the first day back at… — Sarah Rees Brennan
In school, they would tell you that life wouldn’t come to you; you had to go out and make it your own. But when it… — Libba Bray
Sink into morbid, cynical reflection on how much romantic heartbreak is to do with ego and miffed pride rather than actual loss — Helen Fielding
Alone had always felt like an actual place to me, as if it weren't a state of being, but rather a room where I could… — Cheryl Strayed
Well the hours are good...' ... 'but now you come to mention it, most of the actual minutes are pretty lousy. — Douglas Adams
... But then again, a person could turn ugly. Their actual look could change when their actions were repulsive. — Deb Caletti
There is evil! It's actual, like cement. I can't believe it. I can't stand it. Evil is not a view ... it's an ingredient in… — Philip K. Dick
Genuine spiritual knowledge lies not in wonderful and mysterious thoughts but in actual spiritual experience through union of the believer's life with truth. — Watchman Nee
What sparks wars? The will to power, the backbone of human nature. The threat of violence, the fear of violence, or actual violence, is the… — David Mitchell
...no-one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away... The span of someone's life, they say, is only the core… — Terry Pratchett
There was, in my view, an unwritten contract with the reader that the writer must honour. No single element of an imagined world or any… — Ian Mcewan
Other people apologize and don't mean t "Sorry, but you shouldn't have..." or "Sorry, but I just didn't..." They apologize while telling you that they… — E. Lockhart
When I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do not have to ask myself which side I… — George Orwell
In my opinion, actual heroism, like actual love, is a messy, painful, vulnerable business—and I wanted to try to reflect that. — John Green
It is a great mistake to regard a certain object as pleasurable in itself and to store the idea of it in the mind in… — Paramahansa Yogananda
Think of the actual physical elements that compose our bodies: we are 98 percent hydrogen and oxygen and carbon. That's table sugar. You are made… — Augusten Burroughs
The uncreated and the dead exist solely in our actual and virtual pasts. — David Mitchell
I have given no definition of love. This is impossible, because there is no higher principle by which it could be defined. It is life… — Paul Tillich

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