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May we not then sometimes define insanity as an inability to distinguish which is the waking and which the sleeping life? We often dream without the least suspicion of unreality: 'Sleep hath its own world', and it is often as lifelike as the other.
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What does it matter where my body happens to be?' he said. 'My mind goes on working all the same.
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Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.
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Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!
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Alice: I simply must get through! Doorknob: Sorry, you're much too big. Simply impassible. Alice: You mean impossible? Doorknob: No, impassible. Nothing's impossible.
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Will you walk a little faster? said a whiting to a snail, "There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's treading on my tail! See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles all advance: They are waiting on the shingle--will you come and join the dance?
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What I tell you three times is true.
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Whatever is worth doing is worth doing well.
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Speak English!' said the Eaglet. 'I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and I don't believe you do either!
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Consider anything, only don’t cry!
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I said it in Hebrew—I said it in Dutch— I said it in German and Greek; But I wholly forgot and it vexes me much. That English is what you speak!
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It takes all the running you can do just to keep in the same place.
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You would have to be half-mad to dream me up.
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In some ways, you know, people that don't exist, are much nicer than people that do.
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You could not see a cloud, because No cloud was in the sky: No birds were flying overhead - There were no birds to fly.
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There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.
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You can't be that good; you work for me.
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She's in that state of mind that she wants to deny SOMETHING only she doesn't know what to deny!
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You couldn't have it if you DID want it.
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I said you LOOKED like an egg, Sir. And some eggs are very pretty, you know.
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Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?
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Life, what is it but a dream?
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The recent extraordinary discovery in Photography, as applied in the operations of the mind, has reduced the art of novel-writing to the merest mechanical labour.
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I wish I hadn't cried so much!” said Alice, as she swam about, trying to find her way out. I shall be punished for it now, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears!
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