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Edith Wharton Novelist, Short Story Writer
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"She had been bored all afternoon by Percy Gryce... but she could not ignore him on the morrow, she must follow up her success, must submit to more boredom, must be ready with fresh compliances and adaptibilities, and all on the bare chance that he might ultimately decide to do her the honour of boring her for life."

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Carl Jung Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
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"My whole being was seeking for something still unknown which might confer meaning upon the banality of life."

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Carl Jung Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
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"I could well imagine that I might have lived in former centuries and there encountered questions I was not yet able to answer; that I had been born again because I had not fulfilled the task given to me."

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Adam Brown Artist
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"I’m not afraid of anything that might happen to me on this earth, because I know no matter what, nothing can take my spirit from me."

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"I don't know what impression you might have of the way I live. I live in a quiet place. I do not live as a hermit, though other people would prefer it if I did."

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Dante Alighieri Poet, Philosopher
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"Your fame is as the grass, whose hue comes and goes, and His might withers it by whose power it sprang from the lap of the earth."

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Adrienne Rich Poet, Essayist, Feminist
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"A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you... where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire."

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Dolly Parton Singer, Songwriter, Actress
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"I never know tomorrow what I might be doing. I just ask God to lead me and show me and direct me and help me and support me in it. So I just wait to hear the call."

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Dorothy Parker Poet, Writer, Critic
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"[From a window in the Writer's Building at MGM, which overlooked a cemetery:] Hello down there. It might interest you to know that up here we are just as dead as you are."

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Donald Miller Author
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"I am human because God made me. I experience suffering and temptation because mankind chose to follow Satan. God is reaching out to me to rescue me. I am learning to trust Him, learning to live by His precepts that I might be preserved."

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Cormac McCarthy Novelist, Screenwriter
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"He imagined the pain of the world to be like some formless parasitic being seeking out the warmth of human souls wherein to incubate and he thought he knew what made one liable to its visitations. What he had not known was that it was mindless and so had no way to know the limits of those souls and what he feared was that there might be no limits."

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Betty Wright Singer
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"You just have to realize that no matter how delectable that meal looks, there's a chance that you might not get to eat it while it's hot."

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