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“Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with soaking joy. But sometimes, under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots, keeping itself alive.”
― The Five People You Meet in Heaven
― The Five People You Meet in Heaven
“Death to the young is more than that undiscovered country; despite its inevitability, it is a place having reality only in song or in other people's grief.”
― Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas
― Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas
“But I should be false in the earliest sentiments of my soul, if I suppressed the opinion. I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence.”
― Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
― Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
“It is not good to want a thing too much. It sometimes drives the luck away. You must want it just enough, and you must be very tactful with Gods or the gods.”
― The Pearl
― The Pearl
“And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”
― 1984
― 1984
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