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#1

“Being scared isn't the problem. It's not running away that's the hard part.”
― John Connolly, Nocturnes

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#2

“Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

tags: adults, antoine-de-saint-exupery, children, philosophy, the-little-prince

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#3

“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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#4

“The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

tags: antoine-de-saint-exupery

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#5

“A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

tags: vulnerability

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#6

“If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: inspirational

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#7

“When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, There's just something about you that pisses me off.”
― Stephen King, Storm of the Century

tags: god, humor, religion

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#8

“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”
― Linda Grayson

tags: chocolate, friendship

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#9

“There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.”
― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

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#10

“No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.”
― Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

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#11

“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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#12

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
― Cicero

tags: books

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#13

“For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero, Yasalar Üzerine

tags: commandments, essential, justice, law, reason, society

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#14

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

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#15

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor

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#16

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard

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#17

“Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.”
― Agatha Christie, The Labours of Hercules

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#18

“Damn me to hell or take me to heaven, but for Gods sake, do it now....”
― Nora Roberts, The Stanislaski Brothers: Mikhail and Alex

tags: romance

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#19

“If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.”
― Nora Roberts

tags: inspirational

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#20

“Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

tags: happiness, man, trouble

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#21

“Of what use to humanity, I ask myself, is a man who cannot see beyond his own hurt?”
― Janisse Ray

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#22

“There are two tragedies in life. One is never getting your heart's desire. The other is getting it.”
― Joan D. Vinge, The Summer Queen

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#23

“Real power is control. Knowing that you can do anything...and not doing it only because you can.”
― Joan D. Vinge, The Snow Queen

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#24

“I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

tags: lost-innocence, memories

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#25

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth

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#26

“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
― Mark Twain

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#27

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism

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#28

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy

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#29

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation

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#30

“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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