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Veronica Roth Author
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"I suppose that now would be the time to ask for forgiveness for all the things I've done, but I'm sure my list would never be complete. I also don't believe that whatever comes after life depends on my correctly reciting a list of my transgressions...I don't believe that what comes after depends on anything I do at all."

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"Ignore them. They don't know what it is to make a difficult decision." "You wouldn't have done it, I bet." "That is only because I have been taught to be cautious when I don't know all the information, and you have been taught that risks can produce great rewards."

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Veronica Roth Author
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"I have done bad things. I can't take them back, and they are part of who I am. Most of the time, they seem like the only thing I am."

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Veronica Roth Author
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"She taught me all about real sacrifice. That it should be done from love, not misplace disgust for another person's genetics."

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Veronica Roth Author
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"Okay, okay.” I set my hand on top of his and guide it to my chest, so it’s right over my heart. “Feel my heartbeat. Can you feel it?” “Yes.” “Feel how steady it is?” “It’s fast.” “Yes, well, that has nothing to do with the box.” I wince as soon as I’m done speaking. I just admitted to something. Hopefully he doesn’t realize that."

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Veronica Roth Author
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"Scrubbing the floor when no one else wanted to was something that my mother would have done. If I can't be with her, the least I can do is act like her sometimes."

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Tao Lin Author and Poet
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"It seems like most people will agree that they would like if they were treated by other people based on what they have concretely done in their life, not what other people have done, with their lives."

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Tao Lin Author and Poet
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"I think mostly the commodifying comes after I've done something that has some other value to me."

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Rainer Maria Rilke Poet, Novelist
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"That is at bottom the only courage that is demanded of us: to have courage for the most strange, the most singular, and the most inexplicable that we may encounter."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action. What they have done commits and enforces them to do the same again. The first act, which was to be an experiment, becomes a sacrament."

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