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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

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The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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