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    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein
    tags: philosophy
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    Stewart O'Nan
    “You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.”
    ― Stewart O'Nan, The Odds: A Love Story
    tags: acceptance, life, love, worth
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    Robert Bloch
    “Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”
    ― Robert Bloch
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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “And the rest is rust and stardust.”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
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    William Congreve
    “Say what you will, ’tis better to be left than never to have been loved.”
    ― William Congreve
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    Norman Mailer
    “I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.”
    ― Norman Mailer
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    Emily Dickinson
    “A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.”
    ― Emily Dickinson
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    Henry Adams
    “Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.”
    ― Henry Adams
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    Pierre Boulle
    “There's always some further action to take.”
    ― Pierre Boulle
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    Irwin Shaw
    “There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.”
    ― Irwin Shaw
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    Sylvia Beach
    “I am a citizen of the world.”
    ― Sylvia Beach
    tags: citizenship, identity, world
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    Lena Dunham
    “Let's be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading.”
    ― Lena Dunham
    tags: humor, reading
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    Kate Greenaway
    “Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling - I can so well remember it. There was always something more - behind and beyond everything - to me, the golden spectacles were very, very big.”
    ― Kate Greenaway
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    Herman Melville
    “I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.”
    ― Herman Melville
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    Leonora Carrington
    “We went down into the silent garden. Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the hour of silence. Everything is transfixed, only the light moves.”
    ― Leonora Carrington
    tags: dawn, light, silence
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    William Wordsworth
    “The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.”
    ― William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads
    tags: finale-of-middlemarch, tintern-abbey
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    Conan O'Brien
    “If you work really hard, and you're kind, amazing things will happen.”
    ― Conan O'Brien
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    Bobbie Ann Mason
    “One day I was counting the cats and I absent-mindedly counted myself.”
    ― Bobbie Ann Mason, Shiloh and Other Stories
    tags: cats
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    Edward Lear
    “The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea
    In a beautiful pea green boat...”
    ― Edward Lear
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    L. Frank Baum
    “No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.”
    ― L. Frank Baum, The Lost Princess of Oz
    tags: knowledge, thievery, treasure
    4656 likes

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    Lord Byron
    “In secret we met
    In silence I grieve,
    That thy heart could forget,
    Thy spirit deceive.”
    ― George Gordon Byron
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle
    tags: books, humor
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    Joseph Brodsky
    “The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even—if you will—eccentricity.”
    ― Joseph Brodsky
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    André Brink
    “In love, no question is ever preposterous.”
    ― Andre Brink, Before I Forget
    tags: love
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    Walt Whitman
    “I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.”
    ― Walt Whitman
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    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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    Marion Zimmer Bradley
    “Remain true to yourself, child. If you know your own heart, you will always have one friend who does not lie.”
    ― Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Forest House
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    Alexander Pushkin
    “I want to understand you,
    I study your obscure language.”
    ― Alexander Pushkin
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    Louise Erdrich
    “When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.”
    ― Louise Erdrich, The Plague of Doves
    tags: athe-plague-of-dives
    2639 likes

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    William Styron
    “We're all in this game together.”
    ― William Styron
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