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• Imaginary pains are by far the most real we suffer, since we feel a constant need for them and invent them because… — Emile M. Cioran
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• Give a bull grass, sweet water and a willing heifer and he is happy. But a man is never content. If no… — Alison Fell
• Men strive for peace, but it is their enemies that give them strength, and I think if man no longer had enemies,… — Louis L'Amour
• Actually we did not have the feelings we said we had until we spoke them--at least I didn't; to phrase them was… — Philip Roth
• All the children seem to be coming out quite intelligent, thank goodness. It would have been such a bore to be the… — Dorothy L. Sayers
• Ture stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves… — Siri Hustvedt
• If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth. — Yevgeny Zamyatin
• War is all we've been taught, but there are other ways to live. We can find them, Akiva. We can invent them.… — Laini Taylor
• This is what amazes me: that people are new every day. That they are never the same. You must always invent them,… — Lauren Oliver

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