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    Sylvia Plath
    “I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: books, life, limits
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    Charles Bukowski
    “Find what you love and let it kill you.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
    tags: love
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    Sylvia Plath
    “To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
    tags: sylvia-plath, ted-hughes, the-bell-jar
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    Charles Bukowski
    “For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
    tags: atheism, religion
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: charles-bayard-mitchell
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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
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    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    ― Narcotics Anonymous
    tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein
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    Thomas A. Edison
    “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
    ― Thomas A. Edison
    tags: edison, failure, inspirational, paraphrased
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: happiness
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: reminding
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: caring, inspirational, love, roses, time
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: butterflies, caterpillars, philosophy
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: heart, importance, inspiration, secret, the-little-prince
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “What makes the desert beautiful,' said the little prince, 'is that somewhere it hides a well...”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: inspirational
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: beatitudes
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    Lewis Carroll
    “But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
    "Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad."
    "How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice.
    "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
    tags: alice-s-adventures-in-wonderland
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    Sylvia Plath
    “When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn’t know.
    "Oh, sure you know," the photographer said.
    "She wants," said Jay Cee wittily, "to be everything.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
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    Voltaire
    “‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: inspirational
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    H.G. Wells
    “We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.”
    ― H.G. Wells
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    Charles Bukowski
    “Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
    tags: humor
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    Charles Bukowski
    “Do you hate people?”

    “I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Barfly
    tags: humour, misanthropy, paraphrased
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “We are our choices.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre
    tags: choices
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
    It is up to you to give [life] a meaning.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre
    tags: freedom, life, personal-responsibility
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.”
    ― Jean Paul Sartre
    tags: freedom
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    “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
    ― Harry Crosby, Transit of Venus
    tags: poetry
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