Memorable Quotes from various sources

If the moral of stories affected people, life would not be as bad as it is.
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A listener should be painstakingly picked. The good listener invests esteem on both the fiction and the raconteur.

The greatest gift you can give to somebody is the purity of your attention.

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Through her fortune, she was tempting fate, inviting the evil eye.
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It was a long Polar night...one must wait for the sun to rise again. The Polar night was over. But it was a gray dawn, overcast and cheerless.
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Life is a temporary victory over the causes which induce death.
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez in Of Love and other Demons:
Love was an emotion contra natura that condemned two strangers to a base and unhealthy dependence, and the more intense it was, the more ephemeral.
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..cling to her skirts and follow her to heaven.
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Happiness we have not and it does not exist, we only long for it...Anton Chekov-Three Sisters.
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...door closing quietly,slowly,like the end of some sad story.
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...each object losing a little more worth as the list grew longer.