My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.
— Ayn Rand (Anthem)
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That proves you are unusual,’ returned the Scarecrow; ‘and I am convinced that the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed.
— L. Frank Baum (The Land of Oz)
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Right now I want a word that describes the feeling that you get—a cold sick feeling, deep down inside—when you know something is happening that will change you, and you don’t want it to, but you cant stop it. And you know, for the first time, for the very first time, that there will now be a before and an after, a was and a will be. And that you will never again quite be the same person you were.
— Jennifer Donnelly (A Northern Light)
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