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A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration,… — Charles Dickens
I put my hand on him. Touching him has always been important to me, it was something I lived for. I never could explain why.… — Jonathan Safran Foer
One slip. One slip in thousands. The odds had been entirely in her favor. But it hadn't mattered. — Suzanne Collins
As long as you draw breath anywhere -here or ten thousands miles from here- I will love you. I can't help loving you, so I… — Rick Yancey
I asked the professors who teach the meaning of life to tell me what is happiness. And I went to famous executives who boss the… — Carl Sandburg
Which is worse, Risa often wondered, to have tens of thousands of babies that no one wanted or to silently make then go away before… — Neal Shusterman
And then Serafina understood something for which the witches had no word: it was the idea of pilgrimage. She understood why these beings would wait… — Philip Pullman
There are and always will be thousands of princes, but there is only one Beethoven! — Ludwig van Beethoven
Now the mountains were getting that pink tinge, I mean the rocks, they were just solid rock covered with the atoms of dust accumulated there… — Jack Kerouac
When we gaze at a star in the Milky Way which is 50,000 light-years away from our sun, we are looking back 50,000 years in… — Jostein Gaarder
It was as if this night were only one of thousands of nights, world without end, night curving into night to make a great arching… — Anne Rice
I don't think the world is the way we like to think it is. I don't think it's one solid world, but many, thousands upon… — Charles de Lint
The most important thing was that time had passed, pouring thousands of soothing seconds across the island. People need time to deal with the now… — Terry Pratchett
Alone, what did Bloom feel? The cold of interstellar space, thousands of degrees below freezing point or the absolute zero of Fahrenheit, Centigrade or Réaumur:… — James Joyce
Being in a hurry. Getting to the next thing without fully entering the thing in front of me. I cannot think of a single advantage… — Ann Voskamp
The moon, our own, earthly moon is bitterly lonely, because it is alone in the sky, always alone, and there is no one to turn… — Yevgeny Zamyatin
i think of all the thousands of billions of steps and missteps and chances and coincidences that have brought me here. Brought you here, and… — Lauren Oliver
It is a curious fact, but nobody ever is sea-sick - on land. At sea, you come across plenty of people very bad indeed, whole… — Jerome K. Jerome
Helmer: I would gladly work night and day for you. Nora- bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrafice his honor… — Henrik Ibsen
So it's an absolute lie that has killed thousands of kids. Because the mothers who heard that lie, many of them didn't have their kids… — Bill Gates
To a man whose mind is free there is something even more intolerable in the sufferings of animals than in the sufferings of man. For… — Romain Rolland
Steal five dollars and you're a common thief. Steal thousands and you're either the government or a hero. — Terry Pratchett
To us, it is incomprehensible that millions of Christian men killed and tortured each other because Napoleon was ambitious or Alexander was firm, or because… — Leo Tolstoy
To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feel the breath of a mist moving… — Rachel Carson
The search for the purpose of life has puzzled people for thousands of years. That’s because we typically begin at the wrong starting point—ourselves. We… — Rick Warren

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