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The Cry of the Owl

by Patricia Highsmith

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“But what I do I do because I like to do.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

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“If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self—himself—he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it.”
― Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales

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“But life is not a legend or a story. Reality is far more precious than a story...”
― David Clement-Davies, The Sight

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“sometimes when we look forward to an event with great and happy anticipation, the event itself may disappoint or be in import so different from what we have expected that we can say the anticipated event did not occur at all but some other experience.”
― Sena Jeter Naslund ahab's wife or the star gazer

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“The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

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