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    Oscar Wilde
    “You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: books, morality, reading, writing
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    Jandy Nelson
    “I love you," I say to him, but it only comes out, "Hey"

    "So damn much," he says back, it only comes out, "Dude”
    ― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun
    tags: noah
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    Oscar Wilde
    “To define is to limit.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: dandy, lord-henry-wotton, wilde
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    John Green
    “Thomas Edison's last words were "It's very beautiful over there". I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful.”
    ― John Green, Looking for Alaska
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: art, painting
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The basis of optimism is sheer terror.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: optimism
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    Jandy Nelson
    “Maybe a person is just made up of a lot of people," I say. "Maybe we're accumulating these new selves all the time.”
    ― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun
    tags: jude-sweetwine, life, personality, self, selves
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    Jandy Nelson
    “If you're going through hell, keep going." - Winston Churchill”
    ― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun
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    John Green
    “As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: love
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    John Green
    “The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
    ― John Green, Looking for Alaska
    tags: compassion, life, suffering
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    John Green
    “What a slut time is. She screws everybody.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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    John Green
    “Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: augustus-waters, hazel, heartbreak, privilege
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    John Green
    “Caring doesn't sometimes lead to misery. It always does.”
    ― John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
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    I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.
    “I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
    tags: truth
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    Suzanne Collins
    “Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
    tags: the-hunger-games
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    Suzanne Collins
    “Well, don't expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
    tags: boggs, finnick, funny, humour, hunger-games, katniss, mockingjay, odair, suzanne-collins, witty
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    William Shakespeare
    “Doubt thou the stars are fire;
    Doubt that the sun doth move;
    Doubt truth to be a liar;
    But never doubt I love.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Hamlet
    tags: love
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    John Green
    “But it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he has Cassius note, ‘The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: tfios, the-fault-in-our-stars
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    William Shakespeare
    “Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Macbeth
    tags: concealment, dark-plans, darkness, stealth
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    William Shakespeare
    “Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
    tags: love, romeo-and-juliet, values, waste
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    William Shakespeare
    “What's done cannot be undone.”
    ― William Shakespeare , Macbeth
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    William Shakespeare
    “I dare do all that may become a man;
    Who dares do more, is none”
    ― William Shakespeare, Macbeth
    tags: dare, macbeth, man
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    William Shakespeare
    “O, full of scorpions is my mind!”
    ― William Shakespeare, Macbeth
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    William Shakespeare
    “Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell.
    Though all things foul would wear the brows of grace,
    Yet Grace must still look so.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Macbeth
    tags: brightness, foul, grace
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    Tennessee Williams
    “I didn't go to the moon, I went much further—for time is the longest distance between two places”
    ― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
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    Tennessee Williams
    “attempting to find in motion what was lost in space.”
    ― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
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    James Baldwin
    “I thought of the people before me who had looked down at the river and gone to sleep beneath it. I wondered about them. I wondered how they had done it--it, the physical act.

    I simply wondered about the dead because their days had ended and I did not know how I would get through mine.”
    ― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
    tags: death, existential
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    James Baldwin
    “...for nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.”
    ― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
    tags: freedom
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    James Baldwin
    “With everything in me screaming No! yet the sum of me sighed Yes.”
    ― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
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