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    “I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.”
    ― Taylor Swift
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    Frances Hodgson Burnett
    “If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”
    ― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
    tags: perspective, positive-attitude
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  • #3
    “One person's craziness is another person's reality.”
    ― Tim Burton
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    Alphonse Karr
    “We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.”
    ― Alphonse Karr, A Tour Round My Garden
    tags: complaints, glass-half-full, gratitude, misattributed-abraham-lincoln, optimism, perspective, pessimism, positive-thinking, roses, thorns
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  • #5
    Douglas Adams
    “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: humor, perspective, science
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  • #6
    Ali Hazelwood
    “I wish you could see yourself the way I see you"
    - Adam”
    ― Ali Hazelwood, The Love Hypothesis
    tags: rom-com
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    Ali Hazelwood
    “I'm starting to wonder if this is what being in love is. Being okay with ripping yourself to shreds, so the other person can stay whole.”
    ― Ali Hazelwood, The Love Hypothesis
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    Ali Hazelwood
    “Ik hou van jou, Adam.”
    ― Ali Hazelwood, The Love Hypothesis
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    Ali Hazelwood
    “What did Adam's fortune cookie say?"
    "Mmm." Olive made a show to look at the strip. "Not much. Just 'Holden Rodrigues, Ph.D., is a loser.'" Malcolm sped up just as Holden flipped her off, making her burst into laughter.
    "What does it really say?" Adam asked when they were finally alone.
    Olive handed him the crumpled paper and remained silent as he angled it to read it in the lamplight. She wasn't surprised when she saw a muscle jump in his jaw, or when he slid the fortune into the pocket of his jeans. She knew what it said, after all.
    You can fall in love: someone will catch you.”
    ― Ali Hazelwood, The Love Hypothesis
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  • #10
    Ocean Vuong
    “In Vietnamese, the word for missing someone and remembering them is the same: nhớ. Sometimes, when you ask me over the phone, Có nhớ mẹ không? I flinch, thinking you meant, Do you remember me?

    I miss you more than I remember you.”
    ― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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    Ocean Vuong
    “What were you before you met me?"
    "I think I was drowning"
    "And what are you now?"
    "Water”
    ― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
    tags: life, love, poetry
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    Ocean Vuong
    “I am thinking of beauty again, how some things are hunted because we have deemed them beautiful. If, relative to the history of our planet, an individual life is so short, a blink, as they say, then to be gorgeous, even from the day you're born to the day you die, is to be gorgeous only briefly.”
    ― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
    tags: beauty, earth
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    “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
    ― Elizabeth Appell
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  • #14
    Oscar Wilde
    “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: books, morality, reading
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: books, morality, reading, writing
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  • #16
    William Shakespeare
    “We know what we are, but not what we may be.”
    ― William Shakespeare
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    Sylvia Beach
    “I am a citizen of the world.”
    ― Sylvia Beach
    tags: citizenship, identity, world
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    Julian Barnes
    “Memory is identity....You are what you have done; what you have done is in your memory; what you remember defines who you are; when you forget your life you cease to be, even before your death.”
    ― Julian Barnes, Nothing to Be Frightened Of
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    Virginia Woolf
    “I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
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    Karl Lagerfeld
    “What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.”
    ― Karl Lagerfeld
    tags: art, capture, fashion-designer, forever, gone, impossible, memories, memory, moment, photo, photography, reproduce, shoot
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    Rita Mae Brown
    “One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.”
    ― Rita Mae Brown
    tags: bad-memory, forgiveness, happiness, memory
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  • #22
    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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    Julian Barnes
    “How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life. Told to others, but—mainly—to ourselves.”
    ― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending
    tags: biography, life, memory
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  • #24
    Rupi Kaur
    “what is the greatest lesson a woman should learn

    that since day one
    she's already had everything she needs within herself
    it's the world that convinced her she did not”
    ― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers
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    Rupi Kaur
    “despite knowing
    they won’t be here for long
    they still choose to live
    their brightest lives

    - sunflowers”
    ― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers
    tags: short-lives, sunflowers, time
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    Rupi Kaur
    “we have been dying
    since we got here
    and forgot to enjoy the view

    - live fully”
    ― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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    Robert Musil
    “One must conform to the baseness of an age or become neurotic.”
    ― Robert Musil
    tags: conforming, conforming-and-attitude, conformity, fitting-in, immorality, individual-vs-society, morality, neurosis, neuroticism, societal-expectations, societal-norms
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    Jeff Vandermeer
    “That's how the madness of the world tries to colonize you: from the outside in, forcing you to live in its reality.”
    ― Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation
    tags: colonize, madness, reality
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    Trevor D. Richardson
    “They live, we sleep, we starve, they eat. You must comply with their deceit, don't trust the wolves to guard the sheep. They'll colonize when you close your eyes into a superpower that will never die.”
    ― Trevor D. Richardson, Dystopia Boy: The Unauthorized Files
    tags: band, colinization, colonialism, colonize, colony, deceit, die, eyes, fat-cats, live, lyrics, money, music, sheep, sleep, starve, superpower, the-johnny-high-fives, wolves
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