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“To love love and not its meaning, hardens the heart in monstrous ways..." (The Rape Of The Swan) Footnote : A form of self-edification, infatuation, lust and the epitome of hedonism.”

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“Other people are, as a rule, so immaterial to us that, when we have entrusted to any one of them the power to cause so much suffering or happiness to ourselves, that person seems at once to belong to a different universe, is surrounded with poetry, makes of our lives a vast expanse, quick with sensation, on which that person and ourselves are ever more or less in contact.”

People Happiness Suffering

Book:Swann’s Way

Source: Swann’s Way

“Wait, Armand, he heard behind him but kept walking, ignoring the calls. Then he remembered what Emile had meant to him and still did. Did this one bad thing wipe everything else out? That was the danger. Not that betrayals happened, not that cruel things happened, but that they could outweigh all the good. That we could forget the good and only remember the bad. But not today. Gamache stopped.”

Friendship Betrayal Choice

Book:Bury Your Dead

Source: Bury Your Dead

“It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.”

Bravery

Book:To Kill a Mockingbird

Source: To Kill a Mockingbird

“What's the bravest thing you ever did? He spat in the road a bloody phlegm. Getting up this morning, he said.”

Bravery Perseverance

Book:The Road

Source: The Road

“She doesn't need your money. Even a penniless fool like you can make her fall in love with you. That's just miracle.”

Love Happiness Money Fool Miracle Shanghai Money Not Happiness Miracles In Life Penniless Shanghai Nobody Sugar Mama Love Fool

Book:Shanghai Nobody

Source: Shanghai Nobody

“When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.”

Bravery Brave

Author:Billy Graham

“She knew that this day, this feeling, couldn't last forever. Everything passed; that was partly why it was so beautiful. Things would get difficult again. But that was okay too. The bravery was in moving forward, no matter what.”

Bravery Moving On Time Passing

Book:Panic

Source: Panic

“Oh, God, if I'm anything by a clinical name, I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I think people are plotting to make me happy.”

Funny Happiness Happy Paranoia

Book:Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction

Source: Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction

“I wanted you to see something about her—I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do. Mrs. Dubose won, all ninety-eight pounds of her. According to her views, she died beholden to nothing and nobody. She was the bravest person I ever knew.”

Bravery Atticus Finch

Book:To Kill a Mockingbird

Source: To Kill a Mockingbird

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