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    Madeline Miller
    “In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
    tags: love
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    Madeline Miller
    “And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
    tags: quotes
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    Madeline Miller
    “I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
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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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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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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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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!
    “I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!”
    ― Charles M. Schulz
    tags: humor, mankind, people
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    Octavia E. Butler
    “Freedom is dangerous but it's precious, too. You can't just throw it away or let it slip away. You can't sell it for bread and pottage.”
    ― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower
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    Octavia E. Butler
    “All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth Is Change.”
    ― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower
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    Octavia E. Butler
    “That’s all anybody can do right now. Live. Hold out. Survive. I don’t know whether good times are coming back again. But I know that won’t matter if we don’t survive these times.”
    ― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower
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    Octavia E. Butler
    “In order to rise From its own ashes A phoenix First Must Burn.”
    ― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower
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    Octavia E. Butler
    “There is no end
    To what a living world
    Will demand of you.”
    ― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower
    tags: demands, life, living, novels, science-fiction, world
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    Toni Morrison
    “Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”
    ― Toni Morrison, Beloved
    tags: freedom, self
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    Toni Morrison
    “Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.”
    ― Toni Morrison, Beloved
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    Toni Morrison
    “You are your best thing”
    ― Toni Morrison, Beloved
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    Toni Morrison
    “Something that is loved is never lost.”
    ― Toni Morrison, Beloved
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    Ray Bradbury
    “The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
    tags: books, magic, universe
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Let this be the hour when we draw swords together. Fell deeds awake. Now for wrath, now for ruin, and the red dawn. Forth, Eorlingas!”
    ― J. R. R. Tolkein, The Lord of the Rings
    tags: theoden
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “What do you fear, lady?" [Aragorn] asked.
    "A cage," [Éowyn] said. "To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
    tags: caged, fear, gender-roles
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
    tags: gandalf, grief
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Arise, arise, Riders of Théoden!
    Fell deeds awake, fire and slaughter!
    spear shall be shaken, shield be splintered,
    a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises!
    Ride now, ride now! Ride to Gondor!”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
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    George Orwell
    “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
    ― George Orwell, Animal Farm
    tags: animal-farm
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    George Orwell
    “Four legs good, two legs bad.”
    ― George Orwell, Animal Farm
    tags: animals, four, humans, legs, two
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    Alice Walker
    “I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.”
    ― alice walker, The Color Purple
    tags: color, god, purple, religion
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    Suzanne Collins
    “Fire is catching! And if we burn, you burn with us!”
    ― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
    tags: mockingjay
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    Aiden Thomas
    “You don't need anyone's permission to be you, Yads.”
    ― Aiden Thomas, Cemetery Boys
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    Sarah Beth Durst
    “Books should be shared with everyone who wants to open their minds and hearts to them.”
    ― Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop
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