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"All she knew was that she must be in love with someone, or she wouldn't feel so miserable."
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"And I realized, that the reason why good things were not happening to me as often as wanted them to, was because I in fact was a good thing that needed to happen. I needed to happen to me, to other people and to the world. And so I happened."

"It's not when you realise that nothing can help you - religion, pride, anything - it's when you realise that you don't need any aid."

"We all have been given a gift; if you have not sort it out yet, yours is stupidity."

"She didn't realize she was in a prison until she collided with the bars."

"Acceptance is the vessel of realization."

"Whoever has money would have realized that it doesn't bring happiness."

"I shall no longer be instructed by the Yoga Veda or the Aharva Veda, or the ascetics, or any other doctrine whatsoever. I shall learn from myself, be a pupil of myself; I shall get to know myself, the mystery of Siddhartha." He looked around as if he were seeing the world for the first time."

"A moment can change the way you view the world, and the way you view the world will give you more moments."

"Are you kidding? He's arrogant, sarcastic, likes to intimidate people, and-oh." Okay. Maybe she had a point."

"Maybe you had to come close to losing something before you could remember its value."
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"If you can't think of what to write, tough luck; write anyway. If you can think of lots more when you've finished the three pages, don't write it; it'll be that much easier to get going next day."

"One moment several things are possible, the next moment only one happens, and the rest don't exist. Except that other worlds have sprung into being, on which the did happen."

"When you stopped believing in God,' he went on, 'did you stop believing in good and evil?''No. But I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are. All we can say is that this is a good deed, because it helps someone, or that's an evil one, because it hurts them. People are too complicated to have simple labels."

"When you live for many hundreds of years, you know that every opportunity will come again."

"We measure the value of a civilized society by the number of Libraries it opens, not the number it closes down."

"You going to be a scientist when you grow up? That sort of question deserved a blank stare, which it got."

"Who are you?' the woman said at last.'Lyra Silver-''No, where d'you come from? What are you? How do you know things like this?' Wearily Lyra sighed; she had forgotten how roundabout Scholars could be. It was difficult to tell them the truth when a lie would have been so much easier for them to understand."

"I can't bear the thought of oblivion, Asriel, she continued. 'Sooner anything than that. I used to think pain would be worse-to be tortured forever-I thought that must be worse . . . But as long as you were conscious, it would be better, wouldn't it? Better than feeling nothing, just going into the dark, everything going out forever and ever?"

"If there is a war to be fought, we don't consider cost one of the factors in deciding whether or not to fight."

"What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training for writing good prose."
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