

“The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.”
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“Make up a story... For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light. Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief's wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear's caul.”
― The Nobel Lecture In Literature, 1993
― The Nobel Lecture In Literature, 1993

“Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.”
― A Farewell to Arms
― A Farewell to Arms

“you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.”
― The Sun Also Rises
― The Sun Also Rises

“What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven.”
― Damned
― Damned
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