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It is a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself at last genuinely down and out. You have talked so often of going… — George Orwell
the Musgroves had had the ill fortune of a very troublesome, hopeless son, and the good fortune to lose him before he reached his twentieth… — Jane Austen
I was still owed an explanation, I thought, but so what? What good was it going to do me? It wouldn't have made me any… — Nick Hornby
I drew laughing, high-breasted girls aquaplaning without a care in the world, as a result of being amply protected against such national evils as bleeding… — J D Salinger
...quite simply, I was in love with New York. I do not mean “love” in any colloquial way, I mean that I was in love… — Joan Didion
There is a limit to the amount of misery and disarray you will put up with, for love, just as there is a limit to… — Alice Munro
I talk to you as I talk to my own soul," he said, turning me to face him. He reached up and cupped my cheek,… — Diana Gabaldon
Why should your majesty think it? My own plans are made. While I may, I sail East in Dawn Treader. When she fails me, I… — C.S. Lewis
Perseverance means to continue in a given course until we have reached a goal or objective, regardless of obstacles, opposition, and other counterinfluences...Perseverance is a… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
Many are the stories I have heard about myself. I have mistresses I have never met. When I hear that I am a sodomist and… — John Steinbeck
A report of a most alarming nature reached me two days ago. — Jane Austen
But the grind has begun. The windows don’t open, and even the availability of near-constant jokes about Jews and Mormons fails to stem the tide… — Dave Eggers
I had jumped off the edge, and then, at the very last moment, something reached out and caught me in midair. That something is what… — Paul Auster
Except for the sound of the rain, on the road, on the roofs, on the umbrella, there was absolute silence: only the dying moan of… — Graham Greene
The objective level is not words, and cannot be reached by words alone. We must point our finger and be silent, or we will never… — Alfred Korzybski
I died for beauty but was scarce Adjusted in the tomb, When one who died for truth was lain In an adjoining room. He questioned… — Emily Dickinson
Myron reached for the phone and dialed Win's number. After the eighth ring he began to hang up when a weak, distant voice coughed. "Hello?"… — Harlan Coben
Try to remember it always," he said once Gogol had reached him, leading him slowly back across the breakwater, to where his mother and Sonia… — Jhumpa Lahiri
And just for a moment I had reached the point of ecstasy that I always wanted to reach, which was the complete step across chronological… — Jack Kerouac
Whatever plane our consciousness may be acting in, both we and the things belonging to that plane are, for the time being, our only realities.… — H. P. Blavatsky
Well, here he was. They could save each other, the way the poets promised lovers should. He was mystery, he was darkness, he was all… — Clive Barker
...this is the way fate usually treats us, it's right there behind us, it has already reached out a hand to touch us on the… — Jose Saramago
This tremendous event is still on its way, still wandering; it has not yet reached the ears of men. Lightning and thunder require time; the… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Most men are reasonably useful in a crisis. The difficulty lies in convincing them that the situation has reached a critical point — Barbara Mertz
I was born lazy. I am no lazier now than I was forty years ago, but that is because I reached the limit forty years… — Mark Twain

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