That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth. ― Tim O'Brien

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One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls. ― Khaled Hosseini

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Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn. ― Mahatma Gandhi

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We are all born mad. Some remain so. ― Samuel Beckett

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In many ways you can say that the prison serves as an institution that consolidates the state’s inability and refusal to address the most pressing social problems of this era. — Angela Davis

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Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig. ― Robert Heinlein

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You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly in times of great trouble? ― J.K. Rowling

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Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty. ― Frank Herbert

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The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering. ― Ben Okri

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A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy? ― Albert Einstein

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