"Among the tortures and devastations of life is this then-our friends are not able to finish their stories."

Mortality, Friendship, Story, Grief

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"Among the tortures and devastations of life is this then-our friends are not able to finish their stories."

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"I will not be "famous," "great." I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one's self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded."

Freedom, Individuality, Identity, Adventure

"For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing."

Creativity, Reading, Disease, Writing

"When the white arm rests upon the knee it is a triangle; now it is upright - a column; now a fountain, falling. It makes no sign, it does not beckon, it does not see us. Behind it roars the sea. It is beyond our reach. Yet there I venture. There I go to replenish my emptiness, to stretch my nights and fill them fuller and fuller with dreams. And for a second even now, even here, I reach my object and say, "Wander no more. All is trial and make-believe. Here is the end."

Dream, Longing, Imagination, Sea

"Life for both sexes-and I looked at them, shouldering their way along the pavement-is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. It calls for gigantic courage and strength. More than anything, perhaps, creatures of illusion as we are, it calls for confidence in oneself. Without self-confidence we are as babes in the cradle. And how can we generate this imponderable quality, which is yet so invaluable, most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself. By feeling that one has some innate superiority- it may be wealth, or rank, a straight nose, or the portrait of a grandfather by Romney- for there is no end to the pathetic devices of the human imagination- over other people."

Identity, Confidence, Struggle, Courage, Imagination

"As for my next book I am going to hold myself from writing it till I have it impending in me: grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear pendant gravid asking to be cut or it will fall."

Creativity, Inspirational, Writing, Patience

"As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking."

Equality, Thought, Woman, Man, Freedom

"Are we so made that we have to take death in small doses daily or we could not go on with the business of living?"

Mortality, Death, Life, Reality, Endurance

"For while directly we say that it [the length of human life] is ages long, we are reminded that it is briefer than the fall of a rose leaf to the ground."

Time, Life, Death, Transience

"For if there are (at a venture) seventy-six different times all ticking in the mind at once, how many different people are there not - Heaven help us - all having lodgment at one time or another in the human spirit?"

Mind, Thought, People, Spirit

"They disagreed always about this, but it did not matter. She liked him to believe in scholarships, and he liked her to be proud of Andrew whatever he did."

Relationship, Pride, Support, Education, Purpose

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"Never fear Death for you will feel aroused by his sleep. Never cheat death or he will slap you with a sentence of misery for the defeat."

Suzy Kassem, American Writer

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"There is only one thing in this world shittier than biting it from cancer when you're sixteen, and that's having a kid who bites it from cancer."

John Green, American Author

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"It doth not hurt", whispered a faint voice, "She will take you life and all you are and all you care'st for, and she will leave you with nothing but mist and fog. She'll take your joy. And one day you'll wake and your heart and soul will have gone. A husk you'll be, a wisp you'll be, and a thing no more than a dream on waking, or a memory of something forgotten."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Mortality, Death, Fear, Loss, Joy

"The driver, a black silhouette upon his box, whipped up his bony horses. Icy silence in the coach. Marius, motionless, his body braced in the corner of the carriage, his head dropping down upon his breast, his arms hanging, his legs rigid, appeared to await nothing now but a coffin; Jean Valjean seemed made of shadow, and Javert of stone."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"The fact that you have just buried your parent or parents and/or sibling or siblings does not make you less likely to die today."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"Let me tell you something about dying: it's not as bad as they says.it's the coming-back-to-life part that hurts."

Lauren Oliver, American Author

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"I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead, Spencer is dead, so is Milton, so is Shakespeare, and I'm not feeling so well myself."

Mark Twain, American Author

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"The thin line between life and death is still under construction."

Santosh Kalwar, Nepalese Poet

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