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    Franz Kafka
    “I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: writing
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    Annie Dillard
    “I am sorry I ran from you. I am still running, running from that knowledge, that eye, that love from which there is no refuge. For you meant only love, and love, and I felt only fear, and pain. So once in Israel love came to us incarnate, stood in the doorway between two worlds, and we were all afraid.”
    ― Annie Dillard, Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters
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    Clarice Lispector
    “So long as I have questions to which there are no answers, I shall go on writing.”
    ― Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star
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    John Williams
    “Sometimes, immersed in his books, there would come to him the awareness of all that he did not know, of all that he had not read; and the serenity for which he labored was shattered as he realized the little time he had in life to read so much, to learn what he had to know.”
    ― John Williams, Stoner
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    Virginia Woolf
    “anyone who’s worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room
    tags: books, libraries, virginia-woolf
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    Victor Hugo
    “He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “Better to be tentative than to be recklessly sure- to be an apprentice at sixty, than to present oneself as a doctor at ten.”
    ― Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De -
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    Jeanette Winterson
    “Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it. Those who do not do it, think of it as a cousin of stamp collecting, a sister of the trophy cabinet, bastard of a sound bank account and a weak mind.”
    ― Jeanette Winterson
    tags: books, obsession
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    Helen Keller
    “Good friends walk in when the old ones walk out.”
    ― Helen Keller
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    Mao Zedong
    “To read too many books is harmful.”
    ― Mao Zedong
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    Virginia Woolf
    “And the poem, I think, is only your voice speaking.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, The Waves
    tags: poem
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    Virginia Woolf
    “I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, The Letters of Virginia Woolf: Volume Three, 1923-1928
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    Virginia Woolf
    “I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Moments of Being: A Collection of Autobiographical Writing
    tags: desire, disatisfaction, life
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    Richard P. Feynman
    “Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.”
    ― Richard Feynmann
    tags: curiosity, learning, scholarship
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    Jean Racine
    “Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.”
    ― Jean Racine
    tags: comedy, emotions, feeling, life, thinking, tragedy
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    Antonio Tabucchi
    “I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions.”
    ― Antonio Tabucchi
    tags: contradictions, eccentrics, maladjusted-people
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    Antonio Tabucchi
    “personally I don't trust literature that soothes people's consciences.”
    ― Antonio Tabucchi, Requiem: A Hallucination
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    Anne Michaels
    “There's a moment when love makes you believe in death for the first time. You recognize the one whose loss, even contemplated, you'll carry forever, like a sleeping child. All grief, anyone's grief...is the weight of a sleeping child.”
    ― Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces
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    William Shakespeare
    “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
    ― William Shakespear, Hamlet
    tags: philosophy
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    Anaïs Nin
    “We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
    ― Anaïs Nin
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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    W. Somerset Maugham
    “There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”
    ― W. Somerset Maugham
    tags: writing
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    “When it's over, I want to say: all my life
    I was a bride married to amazement.
    I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.

    When it is over, I don't want to wonder
    if I have made of my life something particular, and real.
    I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened,
    or full of argument.

    I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.”
    ― Mary Oliver
    tags: life
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    “To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.”
    ― Mary Oliver
    tags: attention, life, poetry, work
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    Bertrand Russell
    “Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”
    ― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
    tags: happiness, love
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    John Wooden
    “Don't mistake activity with achievement.”
    ― John Wooden
    tags: achievement, acquirement, act, action, activity, attainment, completion, conclusion, deed, doing, energy, enterprise, exertion, feat, fulfullment, labor, occurence, perfection, performance, production, service, success, undertaking, venture, work
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    Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.
    “Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
    ― Roald Dahl
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    Mortimer J. Adler
    “In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”
    ― Mortimer J. Adler
    tags: books, reading
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    François Mauriac
    “If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.”
    ― Francois Mauriac
    tags: books, literacy, reading
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    George Sand
    “Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.”
    ― George Sand, Letters of George Sand
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