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"It is adversity that often creates beauty."
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Personal Development

"Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her."
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Personal Development

"Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes."
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Personal Development

"In an emergency, one often learns that one's companions can be of even less help in extraordinary circumstances than they are during an average evening."
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Personal Development

"Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us."
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Personal Development

"They're a group called The Spirit-crushers and their leader is known as The Almighty Spirit-crusher."
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Personal Development

"Only when we face the impossible, and experience the unbearable, do we find out who we truly are."
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"There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them.But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there."
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"You are unfortunate in my judgment, for you have never been unfortunate. You have passed through life with no antagonist to face you; no one will know what you were capable of, not even you yourself."
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Personal Development

"Trouble seems to follow me around, waiting to club me with a tire iron."
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"My silence knot is tied up in my hair; as if to keep my love out of my eyes. I cannot speak to one for whom i care. A hatpin serves as part of my disguise. In the play, my role is baticeer; a word which here means "person who trains bats." The audience may feel a prick of fear, as if sharp pins are hidden in thier hats. My co-star lives on what we call a brae. His solitude might not be just an act. A piece of mail fails to arrive one day. This poignant melodrama's based on fact.The curtain falls just as the knot unties; the silence is broken by the one who dies."
Drama


"Yes, I know," Isadora said, and then read her poem, leaning forward so Carmelita Spats would not overhear:"I would rather eat a bowl of vampire batsthan spend an hour with Carmelita Spats."The Baudelaires giggled and then covered their mouths so nobody would know they were laughing at Carmelita."That was great," Klaus said. "I like the part about the bowl of bats."
Humor


"No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many people are chasing you, what you don't read is often as important as what you do read."
Learning


"Why does anyone have a lot of rules? So they can boss people around, I guess."
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"Read about things that wouldn't keep you up all night long, weeping and tearing out your hair."
Learning


"Boredom is not black licorice, Snicket," she said. "There's no reason to share it with me."
Humor


"A long time ago, there was no such thing as school, and children spent their days learning a trade, a phrase which here means "standing around doing tedious tasks under the instruction of a bossy adult." In time, however, people realized that the children could be allowed to sit, and the first school was invented."
Education


"In an emergency, one often learns that one's companions can be of even less help in extraordinary circumstances than they are during an average evening."
Adversity


"If you ask one question, it will lead you to another, and another. It's like peeling an onion."
Curiosity


"One of the most difficult things to think about in life is one's regrets. Something will happen to you, and you will do the wrong thing, and for years afterward you will wish you had done something different."
Regret
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