Most people see the world as a threatening place, and, because they do, the world turns out, indeed, to be a threatening place.
("The Alchemist")
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If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.
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The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader.
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Hatred. Something almost as physical as walls, pianos, or nurses. She could almost touch the destructive energy leaking out of her body. She allowed the feeling to emerge, regardless of whether it was good or bad; she was sick of self-control, of masks, of appropriate behavior. Veronika wanted to spend her remaining two or three days of life behaving as inappropriately as she could.
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No one places her dreams in the hands of those who might destroy them.
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