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"What men classify as living is often but the discontentment of making oneself itch just to enjoy the scratch."

"Desire is easy to fight. Especially when the only weapon desire possesses is attraction. It's not so easy when you're trying to win a war against the heart."

"Not everyone who owns it, Loves it; nor everyone who Loves it, Can own it!"

"Life curses some poor people with the love of luxury, while it blesses some with the very same thing."

"We want money but we crave appreciation."
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"Madness is a wholly human malady borne in a brain too evolved-or not quite evolved enough-to bear the awful burden of its own existence."


"But hope is no less realistic than despair. It is still our choice whether to live in light or lie down in darkness."


"I, um, I thought you might want this back.I pull out the battered old teddy bear and hold it toward him. He frowns and shakes his head and doesn't reach for it, and I feel like he's punched me in the gut.Then my baby brother slaps that damned bear out of my hand and crushes his face against my chest, and beneath the odors of sweat and strong soap I can smell it, his smell, Sammy's, my brother's."


"The experience was like running into someone you hadn't seen since middle school - you recognize them, but what you really notice is the ways they've changed. They don't match your memory of how they should look and for a second you're thrown off, because your memory of them IS them."


"The answer is they didn't. They aren't here, Razor. They never were it's just us. It's always been just us."


"The cold stars spun to the ancient rhythm, the august march of an everlasting symphony. They are old, the stars, and their memory is long."


"Without trust there's no cooperation. And without cooperation there's no progress. History stops."


"And it occurs to me that there's no real difference between us, the living and the dead; it's just a matter of tense: past-dead and future-dead."
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