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Perspective basically guarantees that there’s no such thing as a pure emotion. Every emotion is based on how sucky (or not) something is in relation to something else that has already happened. I realized that Hy and Marcus and my ankle wouldn’t be so huge if I had experienced a Hiroshima-size disaster.It kind of makes me wish that the worst thing that will ever happen to me will just hurry up and happen already. That way I could live the rest of my life in bliss, if only because I know how much worse things could be. ↗

— Megan McCafferty

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Success never goes on sale, but most spend their whole life dickering over the cost, never making the purchase. ↗

— Orrin Woodward

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Remember, what goes around comes around, if you give out venom, sooner or later it will come back to poison you ↗

— TheEmoQueen

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Work for your afterlife as if you will die tomorrow, and work for this life as if you will live forever ↗

— An Islamic Historical Quote

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Will wrestled with his conscience, grappled it to the ground and sat on it until he couldn't hear a squeak out of it. ↗

— Nick Hornby

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I beg your pardon; one knows exactly what to think. ↗

— Jane Austen

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The end of reading is not more books, but more life. ↗

— George Holbrook Jackson

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There are two novels that can transform a bookish 14-year-kid’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish daydream that can lead to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood in which large chunks of the day are spent inventing ways to make real life more like a fantasy novel. The other is a book about orcs. ↗

— Raj Patel

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The whole story, paradoxically enough, strengthens our relish for real life. This excursion into the preposterous sends us back with renewed pleasure to the actual. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

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It has been said that the great things in life are exactly what they seem to be. Such simplicity can be difficult to understand. I have had many visions that I could not interpret, visions meant to be passed to a greater soul. I am but a thread in the fabric. Nevertheless, I do know this: even the finest and most self-sacrificing actions must be paid for. Strangely enough, that is what makes them so fine. --Seer Narda Chayton WOLF REVENGE ↗

— Susan Cartwright

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