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  • #1
    René Descartes
    “I think; therefore I am.”
    ― Rene Descartes
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    George R.R. Martin
    “The night is dark and full of terrors.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Winter is coming.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: forcasting, mottos, winter
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    José Ortega y Gasset
    “Yo soy yo y mi circunstancia.”
    ― José Ortega y Gasset
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    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
    tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books
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    Carl Sagan
    “Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.”
    ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
    tags: love, mercy
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke
    tags: distance, life, loneliness, qotd, sense-of-wonder, universe
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    Orhan Pamuk
    “I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”
    ― Orhan Pamuk, The New Life
    tags: books, orhan-pamuk, reading, the-new-life
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    Carl Sagan
    “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
    ― Carl Sagan
    tags: astronomer, science, writer
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  • #10
    Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
    “Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: eating-reading
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    Brandon Mull
    “Smart people learn from their mistakes. But the real sharp ones learn from the mistakes of others.”
    ― Brandon Mull, Fablehaven
    tags: mistakes
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    Joshua Slocum
    “I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.”
    ― Joshua Slocum, Sailing Alone around the World
    tags: alone, books, friends, solitude
    3498 likes

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  • #13
    Norton Juster
    “So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.”
    ― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
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  • #14
    Jhumpa Lahiri
    “That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
    ― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake
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  • #15
    David Nicholls
    “This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.”
    ― David Nicholls, One Day
    tags: hope, love
    2501 likes

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  • #16
    J.K. Rowling
    “We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.”
    ― J.K. Rowling
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  • #17
    Frederick Douglass
    “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
    ― Frederick Douglass
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    Mark Haddon
    “I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them”
    ― Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
    tags: life, prime-numbers
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  • #19
    Gustave Flaubert
    “Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.”
    ― Gustave Flaubert
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  • #20
    The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.
    “The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.”
    ― William H. Gass, A Temple of Texts
    tags: alchemy, writing
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  • #21
    Gertrude Stein
    “It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.”
    ― Gertrude Stein
    tags: genius, humor
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    George R.R. Martin
    “My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer and I have my mind...and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone if it is to keep its edge. That's why I read so much Jon Snow.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: abilities, song-of-fire-and-ice, tyrion-lannister
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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”
    ― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
    tags: existence, truth
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  • #24
    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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    Geoffrey Chaucer
    “Patience is a conquering virtue.”
    ― Geoffrey Chaucer
    tags: canterbury-tales, chaucer, franklin-s-tale, patience
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  • #26
    William Faulkner
    “You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
    ― William Faulkner
    tags: courage, determination, hope, risk
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  • #28
    C.S. Lewis
    “I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books-reading
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  • #29
    Douglas Adams
    “Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.”
    ― Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
    tags: philosophy
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    Shirley Jackson
    “No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.”
    ― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House
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  • #31
    Lemony Snicket
    “For some stories, it's easy. The moral of 'The Three Bears,' for instance, is "Never break into someone else's house.' The moral of 'Snow White' is 'Never eat apples.' The moral of World War I is 'Never assassinate Archduke Ferdinand.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, The Wide Window
    tags: humor
    1124 likes



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