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"Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind."
— Oswald Chambers

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"What can we know? What are we all? Poor silly half-brained things peering out at the infinite, with the aspirations of angels and the instinct of beasts."
— Arthur Conan Doyle

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"You, if you were sensible,
When I tell you the stars flash signals,
each one dreadful,
You would not turn and answer me
"The night is wonderful.""
— DH Lawrence

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"Everybody lies...every day, every hour, awake, asleep, in his dreams, in his joy, in his mourning. If he keeps his tongue still his hands, his feet, his eyes, his attitude will convey deception."
— Mark Twain

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"We exist to bear witness.

We had to be.

The infinite needs us to see it.

Without the perceiver,

the perceived does not exist.

That gives us leverage.

Don't look until you get what you want."
— Unanimous

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"Power without guilt, love without doubt...."
— Madonna

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"If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and
rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.
"
— Benjamin Franklin

tags: inspirational
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"We do not mourn the loss of those who die fulfilling their destinies."
— Laura and Tracy Hickman

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"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being."
— Carl Gustav Jung

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"But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most, our one fellow and brother who most needed a friend yet had not a single one, the one sinner among us all who had the highest and clearest right to every Christian's daily and nightly prayers, for the plain and unassailable reason that his was the first and greatest need, he being among sinners the supremest?"
— Mark Twain

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"Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death."
— Rousseau

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"One who burns books, will, in the end, burn people. "
— Heinrich Heine

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"Government schools can't teach reading, writing, and arithmetic - why should we trust them to teach morality, respect, and character? If public education does for ethics what it's done for learning, we'll end up with a generation of immoral, disrespectful, and characterless students."
— Steve Dasbach

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"Rhiannon rings like a bell through the night,
and wouldn't you love to love her?
Takes to the sky like a bird in flight,
and who will be her lover?
All your life, you've never seen a woman
taken by the wind.
Would you stay if she promised you heaven?
Will you ever win?
She is like a cat in the dark,
and then she is the darkness.
She rules her life like a fine skylark,
when the sky is starless.
All your life, you've never seen a woman
taken by the wind.
Would you stay if she promised you heaven?
Will you ever win?"
— Fleetwood Mac

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""All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing.""
— Edmund Burke

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"It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly. "
— Margaret Mead

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"By the prickling of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes."
— William Shakespeare

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"Skin white as snow, lips red as blood, and hair black as ebony."
— The Brothers Grimm

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"Every heart is much the same, We tell ourselves down here, The same chambers fed by veins, The same maze of love and fear."
— John Ritter

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"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
— Robert Frost

tags: life
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"All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by frost."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
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"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
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"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
— Mark Twain

tags: education
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"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."
— Robert A. Heinlein (Stranger in a Strange Land)

tags: essential, happiness, love
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"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman."
— Virginia Woolf

tags: women
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"Reality continues to ruin my life."
— Bill Watterson (The Complete Calvin and Hobbes)

tags: calvin-and-hobbes, humor, life
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"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
— Maya Angelou

tags: inspirational, stories, writing
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"Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up."
— Neil Gaiman (The Sandman Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones)

tags: love
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"I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; so I love you because I know no other way."
— Pablo Neruda (100 Love Sonnets/Cien Sonetos De Amor)

tags: love, poetry
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"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
— Albert Einstein

tags: reality
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"I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. "
— W.C. Fields

tags: humor, sinister
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"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings."
— Anaïs Nin

tags: death, love
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"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: good, writing
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"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: life
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"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: books, reading
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"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: identity, opinions
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"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: dreaming, dreams, imagination
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"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: truth
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"The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: temptation
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"The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: humor, suspense
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"There is no friend as loyal as a book."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: books, friends, novelist, quotes
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"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: happiness
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"The first draft of anything is shit."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: writing
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"When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: listening
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"It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: journey, travel
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"The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, shit detector."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: writing
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"The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: writing
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"It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: writing
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"Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: death, honesty, life, truth, wisdom
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