"Men are always ready to respect anything that bores them."

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"Every single human being should be the fulfilment of a prophecy: for every human being should be the realisation of some ideal, either in the mind of God or in the mind of man."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"He looked down the slope and, at the base, in the shadow of the wall of the Park, he saw some human figures lying. Those venal and furtive loves filled him with despair. He gnawed the rectitude of his life; he felt that he had been outcast from life's feast."

James Joyce, Irish Novelist

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"Nothing changes; we humans repeat the same sins over and over, eternally."

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"Every human being desires love and happiness."

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"Gemma had blond hair and blue eyes. I did not.Gemma was always an A student. I was more of a B-all-you-can-be kind of gal.When Gemma was into science, I was into skipping.When Gemma was into foreign languages, I was into the hot Italian guy down the street."

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"Yes, cannibals. People are just cannibals unless they leave each other alone."

Doris Lessing, English Writer

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"How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another heart? How much can we hope to understand those who have suffered deeper anguish, greater deprivation, and more crushing disappointments than we ourselves have known?"

Orhan Pamuk, Turkish Novelist

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"They were like animals, men. They found too much eye contact threatening."

Jojo Moyes, British Novelist

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"A dim antagonism gathered force within him and darkened his mind as a cloud against her disloyalty: and when it passed, cloudlike, leaving his mind serene and dutiful towards her again, he was made aware dimly and without regret of a first noiseless sundering of their lives."

James Joyce, Irish Novelist

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"I love that you're worried,' she says, 'but you're worried about all the wrong things."

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"My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation but I'm working on the foundation."

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