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"“Is today a good day to die?”

From the book “All the Bright Places.” By Jennifer Niven

A little bit weird 😅
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The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky-Alexey Karamazov was the third son of Fyodor Karamazov, a landowner well known in our district in his own day, and still remembered among us because of his gloomy and tragic death, which happened thirteen years ago, and which I will describe in its proper place.
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The wind shook the house,roaring like a great animal.

Strong Heart,Charlie Sheldon
"Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary.” – Jim Rohn
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It is our intention to preserve in these pages what scant biographical material we have been able to collect concerning Joseph Knecht, or Ludi Magister Josephus III, as he is called in the Archives of the Glass Bead Game.

The Glass Bead Game, Herman Hesse.
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
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Impermanence is the essence of our human condition.

from Gesture of Balance by Tarthang Tulku
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"They say that Rome can evoke a million memories, and that its sprawling alleys refresh the soul."

That was the first sentence of my current book, "Trip to Adele" written by siblings R.I. and A.I. Alyaseer.
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“I am a Siberian kitty, and we Siberians are a pretty good-looking bunch.”

This is the first sentence in Diary of a Snoopy Cat
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"Only idiots aren't afraid of flying."

One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter by Scaachi Koul
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"Jasnah Kholin pretended to enjoy the party, giving no indication that she intended to have one of the guests killed."
Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson
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Turning thirty is tricky.
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“In 1959, a week after her seventeenth birthday, Catherine missed her period in February, and then in March.”

Illustrated Short Fiction of William H Coles 2000-2016
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"They say that Rome can evoke a million memories, and that its sprawling alleys refresh the soul."
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I'm reading two right now.
1) "The author has eaten a piece of candy every single day of his life." Candyfreak by Steve Almond
2) "For a long time, I went to bed early." Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
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The hospital again, and the echo of my reluctant feet through the long, empty corridors.

My Place, Sally Morgan
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
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