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"Hobbies are for pleasure, but rituals keep you going."
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"Do not shorten the morning by getting up late look upon it as the quintessence of life and to a certain extent sacred."
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"Percy: I'll walk down to the cabins and Connor and Travis are stealing stuff from the camp store, and Silena is arguing with Annabeth trying to give her a new makeover, and Clarisse is still sticking the new kids' head into the toilets. It's nice that some things never change."
"Like a breakfast time or lunch time, you must have a thinking time! Without eating and thinking we cannot stick to the existence; without them we cannot stay in the port of this universe!"
"Hobbies are for pleasure, but rituals keep you going."
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"Humans live in a pit of cheating, exploiting, hurting, incarcerating. Every time, the species wastes some part of what it could be. This waste is poisonous."
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"Rights are susceptible to subversion, as even granite is susceptible to erosion. My fifth Declaration posits how, in a cycle as old as tribalism, ignorance of the Other engenders fear; fear engenders hatred; hatred engenders violence; violence engenders further violence until the only "rights, the only law, are whatever is willed by the most powerful."
"Glass & peace alike betray proof of fragility under repeated blows."
"The novelist is more like a pregnant woman who delivers her own child unaided. A messy procedure, with lots of groaning."
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