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#1

“There are no bargains between lion and men. I will kill you and eat you raw.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

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#2

“He showed me his scars, and in return he let me pretend that I had none.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

tags: circe, greek-mythology, intimacy, love, odysseus, scars, vulnerability

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#3

“I am half-sick of shadows,' said The Lady of Shalott.”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Lady of Shalott

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#4

“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: aesthetics, appreciation, hidden-things

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#5

“Remember, the enemy's gate is down.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

tags: ender

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#6

“I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

tags: ender-wiggin, identity, pain

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#7

“I would rather have been loved”
― Genevieve Gornichec, The Weaver and the Witch Queen

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#8

“Before you came along I wasn't sure if I could love, either," she said, and tried not to sound as resentful as she felt. Then she softened those words by adding, "I had always been fine alone. And I still am. But I'm better when you're here.”
― Genevieve Gornichec, The Witch's Heart

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#9

“Where have you been all this time, Mother? Where have you been while I rotted?”
― Genevieve Gornichec, The Witch's Heart

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#10

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell

tags: truth

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#11

“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

tags: animal-farm, animals, closing-line, man, satirical

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#12

“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
― George Orwell, Politics and the English Language

tags: 1946, language, power-of-words, propaganda, thought

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#13

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: books, reading

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#14

“I have crossed oceans of time to find you.”
― James V. Hart, Bram Stoker's Dracula

tags: 1993, dracula, film-quote, gary-oldman

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#15

“I do not believe that there is any thought process possible without personal experience.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Portable Hannah Arendt

tags: 20th-century, literary-theory, philosophy

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#16

“The matter of merely laboring and consuming is of crucial importance for the reason that a kind of worldlessness defines itself there too. Nobody cares any longer what the world looks like.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Portable Hannah Arendt

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#17

“There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking it-self is dangerous.”
― Hannah Arendt

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