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    Oscar Wilde
    “Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: saint-sinner
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    Anton Chekhov
    “Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and when he dies only the five senses that we know perish with him, and the other ninety-five remain alive.”
    ― Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard
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    Ruth Reichl
    “Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.”
    ― Ruth Reichl
    tags: community, eating, food, life, sharing
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    Émile Zola
    “I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.”
    ― Emile Zola
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: hate, love
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Rick Yancey
    “I am a shark, Cassie," he says slowly, drawing the words out, as if he might be speaking to me for the last time. Looking into my eyes with tears in his, as if he's seeing me for the last time. "A shark who dreamed he was a man.”
    ― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave
    tags: evan-walker
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    Erin Morgenstern
    “You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows that they might do because of it, because of your words. That is your role, your gift.”
    ― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus
    tags: inspirational, story-teller, storytelling, your-gift
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    Erin Morgenstern
    “The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.”
    ― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus
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    Geoffrey Chaucer
    “Patience is a conquering virtue.”
    ― Geoffrey Chaucer
    tags: canterbury-tales, chaucer, franklin-s-tale, patience
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    Yasmin Mogahed
    “Today, we’re no longer just ‘Muslim’. We’re ‘progressives’, ‘Islamists’, ‘traditionalists’, ‘salafis’, ‘indigenous’, and ‘immigrants’. And each group has become so alienated from the other, that we’ve almost forgotten that we share a common creed.”
    ― Yasmin Mogahed, Reclaim Your Heart
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    Art Spiegelman
    “To die, it's easy. But you have to struggle for life.”
    ― Art Spiegelman, Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
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    Edward Gibbon
    “We improve ourselves by victory over our self. There must be contests, and you must win.”
    ― Edward Gibbon
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    Frank Herbert
    “There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”
    ― Frank Herbert
    tags: endings, happy-endings, writing
    4810 likes

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    Jo Walton
    “It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.”
    ― Jo Walton, Among Others
    tags: books
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    عزيز نيسين
    “الابتسامة هي القناع الأفضل لكي تخفي حالتك الحقيقية”
    ― عزيز نيسين
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    Diana Gabaldon
    “For where all love is, the speaking is unnecessary”
    ― Diana Gabaldon, Outlander
    tags: love
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    Stendhal
    “A good book is an event in my life.”
    ― Stendhal, The Red and the Black
    tags: books, literature, reading
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    W.E.B. Du Bois
    “Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.”
    ― W.E.B. DuBois
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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
    “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
    ― George Orwell, Animal Farm
    tags: animal-farm
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    Anna Sewell
    “It is good people who make good places.”
    ― Anna Sewell, Black Beauty
    tags: attitude, genius-loci, goodness, people, places, spirit, warmth, welcoming
    1734 likes

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  • #23
    Vincent van Gogh
    “I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.”
    ― Vincent van Gogh
    tags: night-day
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  • #24
    William Shakespeare
    “Wishes were ever fools”
    ― William Shakespeare
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  • #25
    Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
    “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
    tags: books, reading
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    Stanley Fish
    “The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.”
    ― Stanley Fish
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    Ibn Khaldun
    “اتباع التقاليد لا يعني أن الأموات أحياء، بل أن الأحياء أموات.”
    ― ابن خلدون
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    Cassandra Clare
    “Have you fallen in love with the wrong person yet?'
    Jace said, "Unfortunately, Lady of the Haven, my one true love remains myself."
    ..."At least," she said, "you don't have to worry about rejection, Jace Wayland."
    "Not necessarily. I turn myself down occasionally, just to keep it interesting.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
    tags: city-of-bones, jace
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    Chad Sugg
    “If you're reading this...
    Congratulations, you're alive.
    If that's not something to smile about,
    then I don't know what is.”
    ― Chad Sugg, Monsters Under Your Head
    tags: alive, congratulations, hope, humanity, inspiration, inspirational, inspire, life, poetry, smile, wisdom
    8489 likes

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    Ernest Hemingway
    “Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
    2774 likes



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