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It seemed funny to me that the sunset she saw from her patio and the one I saw from the back steps was the same one. Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren't so different. We saw the same sunset. —The Outsiders, Writer, S. E. Hinton

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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view—until you climb into his skin and walk around in it. ——To Kill a Mockingbird, Novelist, Harper Lee

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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have. —The Uncommon Reader, Playwright, Alan Bennett

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We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there. —Night Train to Lisbon, Writer, Pascal Mercier

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Leo Tolstoy (September 9, 1828 - November 20, 1910), Russian critical realist writers, political thinkers and philosophers in The mid-19th century, His representative works include War and Peace, Anna Karenina and Resurrection. Anniversary: The Beginning of Spring

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Meanwhile spring arrived. My old dejection passed away and gave place to the unrest which spring brings with it, full of dreams and vague hopes and desires. —The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories, Novelist, Leo Tolstoy

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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich. —Everybody's Autobiography, Writer, Gertrude Stein

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We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory. —Meadowlands, Poet, Louise Glück

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I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word 'love' frightens me. ——Around the World in Eighty Days, Writer, Jules Verne

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The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned. —All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes,Writer, Maya Angelou

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It was the great day of good luck, when everybody looked forward to a better and more prosperous new year, when everybody had the pleasure of adding one year to his age and was ready with an auspicious luck-bringing word for his neighbours. —How I Celebrated New Year's Eve, Writer,Lin Yutang

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A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. —The Brook Kerith, Novelist, George Augustus Moore

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Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. ——Pale Blue Dot, Astrophysicist, Carl Sagan

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When we see the beauty of the snow, when we see the beauty of the full moon, when we see the beauty of the cherries in bloom, when in short we brush against and are awakened by the beauty of the four seasons, it is then that we think most of those close to us, and want them to share the pleasure. —Japan, the Beautiful and Myself, Writer, Yasunari Kawabata

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Human nature is complex and multifaceted; don't judge others lightly.

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William somerset Maugham, January 25, 1874-December 16, 1965), British novelist and playwright. His representative works include drama " Circle ", novel " The Yoke of Life ", " Moon and sixpence ", short story collection " Tremor of Leaves ", " Ah Kin " and so on. Remembrance Day: William somerset Maugham's Birthday William somerset Maugham's Birthday

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I had not yet learnt how contradictory is human nature; I did not know how much pose there is in the sincere, how much baseness in the noble, or how much goodness in the reprobate. —The Moon and Sixpence, Novelist, William Somerset Maugham

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With the vigorous development of various media forms, the information we receive every day is overwhelming, and the gap between media reality and real-life reality is also widening.

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John Anthony Burgess Wilson, February 25, 1917-November 22, 1993), pseudonym Anthony Burgess, a well-known contemporary British writer. His novels include the Malaya trilogy about the decline of the British Empire in the Far East, Describes a retired poet and his brooding comic novel, Mr. Enderby Quartet, Nothing Like the Sun, a fictional pastime depicting Shakespeare's love life, A Clockwork Orange, a moral choice, published in 1980, Earthly power, which received the highest rating from critics.

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It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen. —A Clockwork Orange, Writer, Anthony Burgess

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