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“A white person was by definition somebody. Other people needed, across their hearts, one steel rib.”
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“Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate.”
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“There are ten church-members by inheritance for one by conviction.”
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“The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.”
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“They use force, to make you do, what the deciders, have decided you must do.”
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“A lot of actors are like, 'Why do I do this? My character wouldn't do this? This doesn't make sense.' And in a comedy, you kind of just need to walk into the door.”
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“The paradox of communism in power was that it was conservative.”
Source : Eric J. Hobsbawm (1994). “Age of extremes: the short twentieth century, 1914-1991”
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“There are several ways to react to being lost. One is to panic: this was usually Valentina's first impulse. Another is to abandon yourself to lostness, to allow the fact that you've misplaced yourself to change the way you experience the world.”
Source : Audrey Niffenegger (2009). “Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel”, p.264, Simon and Schuster