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    Roald Dahl
    “So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,
    Go throw your TV set away,
    And in its place you can install
    A lovely bookshelf on the wall.
    Then fill the shelves with lots of books.”
    ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
    tags: books, humor, television
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    Roald Dahl
    “And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
    ― Roald Dahl
    tags: believe, glittering-eyes, hidden, magic, secrets, unlikely-places, watch, world
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    Roald Dahl
    “It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.”
    ― Roald Dahl, The Witches
    tags: love
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    Roald Dahl
    “A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”
    ― Roald Dahl, The Twits
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    Roald Dahl
    “We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.”
    ― Roald Dahl
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    Christopher Hampton
    “The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.”
    ― Christopher Hampton, Total Eclipse
    tags: l-existence-est-feroce, sucky-things, weltschmerz
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    Arthur Rimbaud
    “I believe I am in Hell, therefore I am.”
    ― Arthur Rimbaud
    tags: belief, hell, paraphrased, perception
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    Arthur Rimbaud
    “Love...no such thing.

    Whatever it is that binds families and married couples together, that's not love. That's stupidity or selfishness or fear. Love doesn't exist.

    Self interest exists, attachment based on personal gain exists, complacency exists. But not love. Love has to be reinvented, that’s certain.”
    ― Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat
    tags: love
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    Arthur Rimbaud
    “Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.”
    ― Arthur Rimbaud, Une saison en enfer suivi de Illuminations et autres textes
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    Arthur Rimbaud
    “Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.”
    ― Arthur Rimbaud, Selected Poems and Letters
    tags: a-season-in-hell, alchemy-of-the-word, arthur-rimbaud, collected-poems, festival-of-patience, song-of-the-highest-tower
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    Arthur Rimbaud
    “One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.”
    ― Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell
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    George Orwell
    “In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
    ― George Orwell
    tags: truth
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    George Orwell
    “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: inspirational
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    George Orwell
    “War is peace.
    Freedom is slavery.
    Ignorance is strength.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: freedom, ignorance, inspirational, war
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    George Orwell
    “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: april, dystopia, first-sentence, opening-lines
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    George Orwell
    “The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.”
    ― George Orwell, In Front of Your Nose: 1945-1950
    tags: humanity, truth, wisdom
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    George Orwell
    “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: future
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    George Orwell
    “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
    ― George Orwell, Animal Farm
    tags: animal-farm, animals, closing-line, man, satirical
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    George Orwell
    “We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
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    George Orwell
    “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
    ― George Orwell
    tags: freedom-of-speech, liberty
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    George Orwell
    “If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: secrets
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    George Orwell
    “Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: political
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    J.G. Ballard
    “Civilised life, you know, is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willingly. The trouble is we forget after a while that they are illusions and we are deeply shocked when reality is torn down around us.”
    ― J.G. Ballard
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    J.G. Ballard
    “In a totally sane society, madness is the only freedom.”
    ― J.G. Ballard, Running Wild
    tags: humor
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    J.G. Ballard
    “Maybe you are a poet and a dreamer, but don't you realize that those two species are extinct now?”
    ― J.G. Ballard
    tags: art, dreamers, poet
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    J.G. Ballard
    “I wanted to rub the human race in its own vomit, and force it to look in the mirror.”
    ― J.G. Ballard, Crash
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    J.D. Salinger
    “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing
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    J.D. Salinger
    “I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
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    J.D. Salinger
    “I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
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    J.D. Salinger
    “When you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: cemetery, death, funeral-rites, holden
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