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    Albert Einstein
    “The definition of insanity is doing the same experiment and expecting different results.”
    ― Albert Einstein
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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir
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    Thomas Aquinas
    “Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine”
    ― St.Thomas Aquinas
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
    tags: future, life, past, reflection, understanding
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    William Shakespeare
    “For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds,
    Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.
    —Sonnet 94”
    ― William Shakespeare, Shakespear's Sonnets
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    Victor Hugo
    “To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.”
    ― Victor Hugo
    tags: reading
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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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    Lord Byron
    “A drop of ink may make a million think.”
    ― George Gordon Byron
    tags: power-of-words
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
    ― Cicero
    tags: books
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    Gustave Flaubert
    “Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
    ― Gustave Flaubert
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: freedom, women, writing
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    John Keats
    “Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.”
    ― John Keats
    tags: books, wine
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    Fernando Pessoa
    “Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
    ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
    tags: literature, reading, solitude
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    Charles de Gaulle
    “How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?”
    ― Charles de Gaulle
    tags: cheese, diversity, divisiveness, food, france, politics
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: books, friends, novelist-quotes
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    Stephen King
    “Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
    tags: books, magic, reading
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