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    Marcel Proust
    “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
    ― Marcel Proust
    tags: gratitude, happiness
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    Marcel Proust
    “Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.”
    ― Marcel Proust
    tags: memory, nostalgia, recollection
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    Marcel Proust
    “Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can discern what he might never have seen in himself without this book. The reader's recognition in himself of what the book says is the proof of the book's truth.”
    ― Marcel Proust, Time Regained
    tags: writers-on-writing
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    Marcel Proust
    “If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less, but to dream more, to dream all the time.”
    ― Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past Volumes 1-3 Box Set
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    Marcel Proust
    “There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them, those we spent with a favorite book.”
    ― Marcel Proust, Days of Reading
    tags: books, literature, reading, words
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    Marcel Proust
    “Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.”
    ― Proust-M
    tags: books, literature, reading, solitude, words
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    Marcel Proust
    “There is no one, no matter how wise he is, who has not in his youth said
    things or done things that are so unpleasant to recall in later life that
    he would expunge them entirely from his memory if that were possible.”
    ― Marcel Proust
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    Seneca
    “Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”
    ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca
    tags: perseverance, suicide, survival
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    Seneca
    “Life is like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.”
    ― Seneca
    tags: inspirational, life
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    Seneca
    “Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.”
    ― Seneca
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    Seneca
    “Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.”
    ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca
    tags: books
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    Augustine of Hippo
    “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
    ― St. Augustine
    tags: allegory, books, broad-mindedness, classic, education, imagery, travel, world
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    “I think resentment is when you take the poison and wait for the other person to die”
    ― M.T., A Sponsorship Guide for 12-Step Programs
    tags: alcoholics-anonymous, frequently-misattributed-quote, poison, resentment
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    Augustine of Hippo
    “Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.”
    ― Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
    tags: christ, christianity, desire, god, heart, jesus, longing, peace, religion, rest, restlessness
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    Augustine of Hippo
    “There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.”
    ― St. Augustine
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    Augustine of Hippo
    “Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.”
    ― Augustine of Hippo
    tags: st-augustine
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    Augustine of Hippo
    “To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.”
    ― St. Augustine of Hippo
    tags: adventure, love, romance
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    Augustine of Hippo
    “If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.”
    ― Augustine
    tags: bible, catholic, catholic-author, catholicism, truth
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    Augustine of Hippo
    “Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.”
    ― Saint Augustine
    tags: morality, right-and-wrong
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    Augustine of Hippo
    “God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.”
    ― St. Augustine of Hippo
    tags: procrastination
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    Augustine of Hippo
    “God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail. ”
    ― St. Augustine
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    Augustine of Hippo
    “I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.”
    ― Saint Augustine
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    Augustine of Hippo
    “Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.”
    ― St. Augustine
    tags: catholic-author, catholicism, miracles, science
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    Augustine of Hippo
    “God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.”
    ― St. Augustine, City of God
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    Augustine of Hippo
    “Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.”
    ― St. Augustine of Hippo
    tags: faith, inspirational, understanding
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    Augustine of Hippo
    “There can only be two basic loves... the love of God unto the forgetfulness of self, or the love of self unto the forgetfulness and denial of God.”
    ― St. Augustine
    tags: christianity, faith, god, love, self
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  • #27
    Augustine of Hippo
    “A Christian should be an Alleluia from head to foot”
    ― St. Augustine of Hippo
    tags: christian, christian-behavior, joy
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    Augustine of Hippo
    “We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living.”
    ― Augustine of Hippo, Teaching Christianity (Vol. I/11)
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    Martin Luther
    “So when the devil throws your sins in your face and declares that you deserve death and hell, tell him this: "I admit that I deserve death and hell, what of it? For I know One who suffered and made satisfaction on my behalf. His name is Jesus Christ, Son of God, and where He is there I shall be also!”
    ― Martin Luther
    tags: christianity
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  • #30
    Martin Luther
    “If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.”
    ― Martin Luther
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