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    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
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    C.S. Lewis
    “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship, inspirational
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    C.S. Lewis
    “No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: age, books, re-reading, reading
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    C.S. Lewis
    “I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books-reading
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
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    C.S. Lewis
    “It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, old-books, reading
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  • #8
    Dante Alighieri
    “The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.”
    ― Dante Alighieri
    tags: afterlife, attributed-no-source, hell, morality, neutrality
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  • #9
    Dante Alighieri
    “In that book which is my memory,
    On the first page of the chapter that is the day when I first met you,
    Appear the words, ‘Here begins a new life’.”
    ― Dante Alighieri, Vita Nuova
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    Dante Alighieri
    “Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always”
    ― Dante
    tags: beginnings, inspirational, memory
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  • #11
    Dante Alighieri
    “The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and pain.”
    ― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
    tags: inferno-canto-vi-105
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  • #12
    Jasper Fforde
    “Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.”
    ― Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair
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    Jasper Fforde
    “Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system and lights it up like a brushfire. It's the crack cocaine of the literary world.”
    ― Jasper Fforde, First Among Sequels
    tags: humor, poetry
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  • #14
    Jasper Fforde
    “Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.”
    ― Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair
    tags: religion, war
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    Jasper Fforde
    “Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence.”
    ― Jasper Fforde, Lost in a Good Book
    tags: humor, insults, put-downs
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  • #16
    G.K. Chesterton
    “The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
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    Herbert Hoover
    “Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.”
    ― Herbert Hoover
    tags: age, death, fighting, old-age, war, youth
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  • #18
    Haruki Murakami
    “Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
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  • #19
    “War does not determine who is right — only who is left.”
    ― Anonymous
    tags: misattributed-bernard-shaw, misattributed-bertrand-russell, war
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  • #20
    Shel Silverstein
    “Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy.”
    ― Shel Silverstein, The Giving Tree
    tags: self-sacrifice
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  • #21
    Lauren Willig
    “Old books exert a strange fascination for me -- their smell, their feel, their history; wondering who might have owned them, how they lived, what they felt.”
    ― Lauren Willig
    tags: history, old-books
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    Jess C. Scott
    “When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.”
    ― Jess C. Scott, The Intern
    tags: desire, emotion, friendship, honesty, imagination, individuality, life, love, passion, reality, relationships, romance, truth, wisdom, wise-words
    20052 likes

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  • #23
    Socrates
    “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: knowledge, wisdom
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  • #24
    Isaac Asimov
    “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: life, science, wisdom
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    Mark Twain
    “In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: bookroom, books, libraries, wisdom
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  • #26
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Never laugh at live dragons.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: dragons, wisdom
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  • #27
    Paulo Coelho
    “The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
    tags: wisdom
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    Elbert Hubbard
    “God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
    tags: faith, god, wisdom
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  • #29
    Langston Hughes
    “Hold fast to dreams,
    For if dreams die
    Life is a broken-winged bird,
    That cannot fly.”
    ― Langston Hughes
    tags: dreams, hope, inspiration, knowledge, wisdom
    11254 likes

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  • #30
    Truman Capote
    “Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
    ― Truman Capote
    tags: experience, failure, metaphor, success, wisdom
    3808 likes



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