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“Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

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“Hell is—other people!”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

tags: garcin, hell, people

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“As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

tags: choices, eternal-life, human-desire, immortality, money, wisdom

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“I was supposed to be having the time of my life.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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“To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

tags: sylvia-plath, ted-hughes, the-bell-jar

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