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In the past, the poverty they shared had a certain sweetness about it. When the end of the day came and they would eat their dinner in silence with the oil lamp between them, there was a secret joy in such simplicity, such retrenchment.


Albert Camus


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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.


William Samuel Johnson


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You think you know how this story is going to end, but you don't.


Christopher Moore


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Marley was dead: to begin with.


Charles Dickens


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Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?


Bertrand Russell


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No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.


Shirley Jackson


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Harry Potter was a highly unusual boy in many ways.


J.K. Rowling


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It was a pleasure to burn.


Ray Bradbury


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We went to the moon to have fun, but the moon turned out to completely suck.


M.T. Anderson


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Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.


Abraham Lincoln


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