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"Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books."
— Jasper Fforde (The Eyre Affair)

tags: books, reading
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"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: confidence, inspirational, wisdom
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"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

tags: books, classic, humor
5,702 people liked it

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
— Oscar Wilde (Lady Windermere's Fan)

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
5,241 people liked it

"It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything. "
— Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club)

tags: loss
679 people liked it

"The things you own end up owning you."
— Chuck Palahniuk

265 people liked it

"A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand."
— Geraldine Brooks (People of the Book)

tags: books
21 people liked it

"To know a man's library is, in some measure, to know a man's mind."
— Geraldine Brooks

tags: from-the-book-march
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"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: friendship
7,769 people liked it

"We read to know that we are not alone."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: reading
3,149 people liked it

"Tomorrow is fresh, with no mistakes in it."
— L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables)

tags: beginnings, fresh-start, inspirational, mistake, mistakes, new-day, start-over, tomorrow
142 people liked it

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