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- Not the shadow of a doubt crossed my mind of the purpose for which the Count had left the theatre. His escape from us, that evening, was beyond all question the preliminary only to his escape from London. The mark of the Brotherhood was on his arm-I felt as certain of it as if he had shown me the brand; and the betrayal of the Brotherhood was on his conscience-I had seen it in his recognition of Pesca.
(Wilkie Collins, "The Woman in White")
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- Well, she thought, that big old dawg with the hatred in his eyes had killed her after all.
(Zora Neale Hurston, "Their Eyes Were Watching God")
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- I'd have liked to have you for a sweetheart, or a wife, or my mother or my sister--anything a woman can be to a man. The idea of you is part of my mind; you influence my likes and dislikes, all my tastes, hundreds of times when I don't realize it. You really are a part of me.
(Willa Cather, "My Ántonia")
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- When the people sat around on the porch and passed around the pictures of their thoughts for the others to look at and see, it was nice. The fact that the thought pictures were always crayon enlargements of life made it even nicer to listen to.
(Zora Neale Hurston, "Their Eyes Were Watching God")
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- His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink.
(William Golding, "Lord of the Flies")
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- The enemy is always in the mind.
(William Goldman, "The Princess Bride")
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- Time has dealt kindly with that stout officer, as it does ordinarily with men who have good stomachs and good tempers, and are not perplexed over much by fatigue of the brain.
(William Makepeace Thackeray, "Vanity Fair")
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- Because it is a customary cross, As die to love as thoughts, and dreams, and sighs, Wishes, and tears, poor fancy's followers.
(William Shakespeare, "A Midsummer Night's Dream")
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- Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.
(William Shakespeare, "A Midsummer Night's Dream")
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- Some time in the night I got up, tiptoed to my window, and looked out at my doghouse. It looked so lonely and empty sitting there in the moonlight. I could see that the door was slightly ajar. I thought of the many times I had lain in my bed and listened to the squeaking of the door as my dogs went in and out. I didn't know I was crying until I felt the tears roll down my cheeks.
(Wilson Rawls, "Where the Red Fern Grows")
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- High calls low and low calls high. I tell you, if you were in such dire straits as I was, you too would elevate your thoughts. The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar.
(Yann Martel, "Life of Pi")
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- We have it all arranged in our minds, and the less often we see a particular person the more satisfying it is to check how obediently he conforms to our notion of him every time we hear of him. Any deviation in the fates we have ordained would strike us as not only anomalous but unethical. We would prefer not to have known our neighbor, the retired hot-dog stand operator, if it turns out he has just produced the greatest book of poetry his age has seen.
(Vladimir Nabokov, "Lolita")
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- Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science.
(Yann Martel, "Life of Pi")
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- We live not only in a world of thoughts, but also in a world of things. Words without experience are meaningless.
(Vladimir Nabokov, "Lolita")
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- And everyone must lose his mind, everyone must! The sooner the better! It is essential - I know it.
(Yevgeny Zamyatin, "We")
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