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Victor Hugo
“It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.”
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

Jodi Picoult
“If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?”
Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

John  Green
“I found myself thinking about President William McKinley, the third American president to be assassinated. He lived for several days after he was shot, and towards the end, his wife started crying and screaming, "I want to go too! I want to go too!" And with his last measure of strength, McKinley turned to her and spoke his last words: "We are all going.”
John Green, Looking for Alaska

Leo Tolstoy
“I sit on a man's back choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am sorry for him and wish to lighten his load by all means possible… except by getting off his back.”
Leo Tolstoy, What Then Must We Do?

Walt Whitman
“Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.”
Walt Whitman

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