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#1

“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

tags: escape, escapism, first-sentence, opening-lines, reality, sanity

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#2

“... we were children- playing with the reflections of stars in a pool of water- thinking it was space.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Nona the Ninth

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#3

“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
― Lewis Carroll

tags: alice, humor, inspirational, philosophy-of-life, psychological, yesterday

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#4

“The way in which a man accepts his fate and all the suffering it entails, the way in which he takes up his cross, gives him ample opportunity— even under the most difficult circumstances— to add a deeper meaning to his life.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

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#5

“I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: bilbo-baggins, dissipation, old-age

1154 likes

#6

“Fear," the doctor said, "is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

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#7

“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

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#8

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism, self-awareness, self-determination, women

13880 likes

#9

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

tags: change, human

5390 likes

#10

“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

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