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It's just that most really good-looking people are stupid, so I exceed expectations.''Right, it's primarily his hotness,' I said.'It can be sort of blinding,' he said.'It actually did blind our friend Isaac,' I said.'Terrible tragedy, that. But can I help my own deadly beauty?''You cannot.''It is my burden, this beautiful face.''Not to mention your body.''Seriously, don't even get me started on my hot bod. You don't want to see me naked, Dave. Seeing me naked actually took Hazel Grace's breath away,' he said, nodding toward the oxygen tank.

— John Green
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But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

— Aldous Huxley
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Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind.

— Kurt Vonnegut
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He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain is usually the person who locks up the maiden and throws away the key. He was the one who let me out.

— Sarah J. Maas
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It's a lot easier to be lost than found. It's the reason we're always searching and rarely discovered--so many locks not enough keys.

— Sarah Dessen
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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

— Cormac McCarthy
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I nodded, looking at Rachel with respect. "You hit the Lord of the Titans in the eye with a blue plastic hairbrush.

— Rick Riordan
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Though she be but little, she is fierce!

— William Shakespeare
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When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.

— Marilyn Monroe
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If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.

— Ayn Rand
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If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.

— Katharine Hepburn
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Ah,� said a voice from the doorway, “having your annual ‘everyone thinks Will is a lunatic’ meeting, are you? “It’s biannual,� said Jem. “And no, this is not that meeting.

— Cassandra Clare
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If no one in the entire world cared about you, did you really exist at all?

— Cassandra Clare
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I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

— Oscar Wilde
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World quotes adapted from the Abirate/english_quotes dataset (CC BY 4.0). Indian-figure and Hindi/Urdu quotes are a curated compilation of widely-attributed public sayings.