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#1

“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

tags: hell, love, suffering

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#2

“Freedom lies in being bold.”
― Robert Frost

tags: boldness, courage, freedom

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#3

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: books, library

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#4

“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: despair, evil, goodness, inspirational, love, sadness, truth, victory

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#5

“O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales.”
― Leo Rosten

tags: adulthood, fairy-tales

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#6

“Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.”
― Howard Nemerov

tags: humor, knowledge, literature, writing

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#7

“Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody — no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds... Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 5: A Game of You

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#8

“A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.”
― Henry Miller, The Books in My Life

tags: books, power

3334 likes

#9

“Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.”
― Carl Sandburg

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#10

“Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.”
― Dave Eggers

tags: books, time

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#11

“It was one of those humid days when the atmosphere gets confused. Sitting on the porch, you could feel it: the air wishing it was water.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

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#12

“Life, a good life, a great life is about "Why not?" May we never forget it.”
― Danielle Steel, Happy Birthday

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#13

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

tags: books, reading

27730 likes

#14

“When my father would yell at me, I told myself someday I'd use it in a book.”
― Paula Danziger

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#15

“Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.”
― Kathleen Winsor

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#16

“My life has a superb cast, but I cannot figure out the plot.”
― Ashleigh Brilliant

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#17

“One can acquire everything in solitude except character.”
― Stendhal, Five Short Novels of Stendhal

tags: community

1568 likes

#18

“Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.”
― August Wilson

tags: character, courage, self-assessment, self-esteem, strength

4211 likes

#19

“There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read—unless it be reading while you eat. Amabel did both: they are not the same thing, as you will see if you think the matter over.”
― E. Nesbit, The Magic World

tags: eat, eating, humor, luxury, reading

1552 likes

#20

“The more you leave out, the more you highlight what you leave in.”
― Henry Green

tags: highlight, revision, secrets, storytelling, style, writer, writers

1566 likes

#21

“Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.”
― Jack Kerouac

5615 likes

#22

“The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.”
― V. S. Naipaul, In a Free State

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#23

“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.”
― Jeanette Winterson

4603 likes

#24

“Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
― Charlaine Harris

tags: books-vacation

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