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My main disappointment was always that a book had to end. And then what? But I don't think I was ever disappointed by the books.… — Eudora Welty
...for most people in the [Jewish] Ghetto [of Warsaw] nature lived only in memory -- no parks, birds, or greenery existed in the Ghetto --… — Diane Ackerman
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest… — Mark Twain
This was the first time that he has ever looked into the labyrinth of the human soul. He was very far from understanding what he… — HalldÃ³r Laxness
I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a… — Jane Austen
Well, I was thinking this very thing. I was thinking: I am going to die today, but Jesu also died, so he knows how it… — Stephen R. Lawhead
We burned with love for ourselves, all of us, starters of the fire we suffered- our love was the affliction for which only our love… — Jonathan Safran Foer
In great deeds, something abides. On great fields, something stays. Forms change and pass; bodies disappear; but spirits linger, to consecrate ground for the vision-place… — Joshua Chamberlain
I should like to know which is worse: to be ravished a hundred times by pirates, and have a buttock cut off, and run the… — Voltaire
The strains and stresses suffered by the individual in society are grounded in the normal functioning of that society (and of the individual!) rather than… — Herbert Marcuse
[Speaking] is never without fear; of visibility, of the harsh light of scrutiny and perhaps judgment, of pain, of death. But we have lived through… — Audre Lorde
Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered. — Oscar Wilde
Just because a person is beautiful doesn't mean there's no soul beneath. Doesn't mean that person hasn't suffered like everyone else, doesn't mean they don't… — David Levithan
The crowning experience of all, for the homecoming man, is the wonderful feeling that, after all he has suffered, there is nothing he need fear… — Viktor E. Frankl
I have had to contend against the unkindness of his sister, and the insolence of his mother; and have suffered the punishment of an attachment,… — Jane Austen
Quickly, the dragon came at him, encouraged As Beowulf fell back; its breath flared, And he suffered, wrapped around in swirling Flames -- a king,… — Burton Raffel
I know of no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too desirous of evidence in support of their core beliefs. — Sam Harris
…I seemed to be lying neither asleep nor awake looking down a long corridor of gray half light where all stable things had become shadowy… — William Faulkner
Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy. — Alexandre Dumas
What this country needs... what this great land of ours needs is something to happen to it. Something ferocious and tragic, like what happened to… — William Styron
After perhaps thirty meters, just as a soldier turned around, the girl was felled. Hands were clamped upon her from behind and the boy next… — Markus Zusak
I suffered no pain, my hunger had taken the edge off; instead I felt pleasantly empty, untouched by everything around me and happy to be… — Knut Hamsun
My family suffered. My hair turned up in every corner, every drawer, every meal. Even in the rice puddings Tessie made, covering each little bowl… — Jeffrey Eugenides
We suffered failures of imagination just like everyone else, our daring was wanting, and our daily contentment too nearly adequate for us to give it… — Joshua Ferris
It was strange: When you reduced even a fledgling love affair to its essentials--I loved her, she maybe loved me, I was foolish, I suffered--it… — Susan Vreeland

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