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Christina Rossetti A Dirge

Alfred Lord Tennyson: Ulysses Crossing the Bar The Lady of Shalott

How easy it was to capitalise on a person's own bent for self-destruction; how simple to nudge them into non-being, then to stand back and shrug and agree that it had been the inevitable result of a chaotic, catastrophic life. - Robert Galbraith / J.K. Rowling, The Cuckoo's Calling

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It is never too late to be what you might have been. - George Eliot / Mary-Anne Cross

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. - Animal Farm , George Orwell

Now I myself felt his feelings were really not all that different from the normal, what one would call the well-adjusted, normal person, only carried to an extreme degree, to an extreme extent. I myself felt that one could really think of him as the ultimate conformist. - Bruno Bettelheim, Zelig

It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more. - Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Each was a work of art. They were the product of crafts that have, unfortunately, gone out of style, like long dresses, love letters and the waltz. - Like Water for Chocolate, Laura Esquivel

But then the real world rushes in and he vanishes again...the sun, somehow, makes him vanish. He appears, and he disappears. Like a sunrise, or a sunset, or anything so ephemeral. Just like our life, hmm? We appear, and we disappear. And we are so important to some, but we are just...passing through. - Natalia, Before Midnight Still there. Still there. Still there. Gone. - Celine, Before Midnight