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"A whale has nowhere to hide in a river."
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"A toothless wolf is less dangerous than a fanged insect."
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"The rent is a little higher herebut so far I've been able to pay itand that's a miracle toolike still maybe being sanewhile thinking of guns and sidewalksand old ladies in libraries."
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"She might have been born this way, without an empathy gene and other essentials. In that case, she would interpret any kindness as weakness. Among predatory beasts, any display of weakness is an invitation to attack."
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"There is no enemy that respect and love will not conquer. The moral authority for survival comes from respect."
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"Fish are small, but do not drown in the sea. Ships are big, but sink in the ocean."
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"I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival."
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"Sometimes the very things that we're expending our lives to sustain are the very things that are killing our ability to live. And against our blind and frequently raging protests, these are the very things that God let's die so that we can live."
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"There is time for a fight and a time for a flight, knowing the right time to do one or the other can mean the difference between life and death."
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"There's nothing todiscussthere's nothing torememberthere's nothing toforgetit's sadand it's notsadseems themost sensiblethinga person can doissitwith drink inhandas the wallswavetheir goodbyesmilesone comes throughit allwith a certain amount ofefficiency andbraverythenleavessome acceptthe possibility ofGodto help themgetthroughotherstake itstaight onand to theseI drink tonight."
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"There's nothing wrong with athletics, but they shouldn't get in the way of your schoolwork."
Education
"A new experience can be extremely pleasurable, or extremely irritating, or somewhere in between, and you never know until you try it out."
Life
"A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them."
Education
"How did you do that? Mr. Poe asked. "Nice girls shouldn't know how to do such things."My sister is a nice girl, Klaus said, "and she knows how to do all sorts of things."
Family
"The world is quiet here."
Peace
"Unless you have been very, very lucky, you have undoubtedly experienced events in your life that have made you cry. So unless you have been very, very lucky, you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit."
Emotion
"It is useless for me to describe to you how terrible Violet, Klaus, and even Sunny felt in the time that followed. If you have ever lost someone very important to you, then you already know how it feels, and if you haven't, you cannot possibly imagine it."
Emotion
"The sea is nothing but a library of all the tears in history."
Nature
"A letter may be coded, and a word may be coded. A theatrical performance may be coded, and a sonnet may be coded, and there are times when it seems the entire world is in code. Some believe that the world can be decoded by performing research in a library. Others believe that the world can be decoded by reading a newspaper."
Knowledge
"I never want to be away from you again, except at work, in the restroom or when one of us is at a movie the other does not want to see."
Love
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