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"Happiness is a prison, Evey. Happiness is the most insidious prison of all."
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Personal Development
"Milly Brush once might almost have fallen in love with these silences."
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Personal Development
"Hatred may keep a body warm, but it takes a lot to keep the fire stoked, so unless a person is extraordinary in some way, some people are not worth hating, just like they're not worth loving."
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Personal Development
"I don't understand my sudden obsession with staring at her, but i can't seem to stop."
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Personal Development
"Strong thoughts are accompanied by great emotions."
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Personal Development
"I was tired of her getting away with being so young."
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Personal Development
"I had one of those headaches. It kept pounding and got into that crazy realm where the guillotine seems like a good idea."
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Personal Development
"Sometimes it made her want to put her fist through glass; other times, it made her cry a river."
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Personal Development
"There's no way to tell what will make someone break down in tears. There are some who will cry at the merest melancholy word, and there are some who need the longest, cruelest speech to even dampen one eyelash. There are those who will cry at any sad song but no sad book, and there are those who are immune to the most saddening newspaper articles but will weep for days over a terrible meal. People cry at silence or at violence, in a graveyard or a schoolyard."
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"The lonely people have taught me, that I am not alone."
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"Telling people they look relaxed makes them look relaxed."
People
"Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure."
Power
"Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time."
Time
"Their talk was endless, compulsive, and indulgent, sometimes sounding like the remains of the English language after having been hashed over by nuclear war survivors for a few hundred years."
Culture
"If God drives a car, He'd drive a 1973 Ford LTD Brougham sedan with a claret-colored vinyl roof, with oxblood leather upholstery and an opera window."
God
"I was always the youngest person in class, skinny, scrawny, no good at sports. I asserted myself by being smart. But then I got to college and started to get C's and D's. That was fantastic. I no longer had to be the smartest person in the room."
Education
"It was a December night so cold and clear that the air felt like the air of the Moon - lung-burning, mentholated and pure."
Nature
"If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween."
Courage
"And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened."
Life
"When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon."
Ethics
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