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    William Golding
    “We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?”
    ― William Golding, Lord of the Flies
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    William Golding
    “I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior [to men] and always have been.”
    ― William Golding, Lord of the Flies
    tags: empowerment, equality, gender, men, superiority, women
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    Leigh Bardugo
    “The less you say, the more weight your words will carry.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm
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    Madeline Miller
    “I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
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    Madeline Miller
    “And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
    tags: quotes
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    Madeline Miller
    “In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
    tags: love
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    Madeline Miller
    “But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.”
    ― Madeline Miller, Circe
    tags: circe, constellations, daedalus, greek-mythology, love, stars
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    Madeline Miller
    “He showed me his scars, and in return he let me pretend that I had none.”
    ― Madeline Miller, Circe
    tags: circe, greek-mythology, intimacy, love, odysseus, scars, vulnerability
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    Umberto Eco
    “We live for books.”
    ― Umberto Eco
    tags: bibliophiles, book-lovers, books, reading
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I'm a man of simple tastes. I'm always satisfied with the best.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: lifestyle, living, oscar-wilde
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
    tags: earnestness, gullibility, honesty
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “For you, a thousand times over”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
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    Lancali
    “Suns can’t see their own light.”
    ― Lancali ., I Fell in Love With Hope
    tags: light, sad-but-true, sentimental, sun, sun-light
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
    tags: identity, opinions
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    Oscar Wilde
    “A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: inspirational, oscar-wilde
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    Jorge Luis Borges
    “I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me...”
    ― Jorge Luis Borges, The Aleph and Other Stories
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    Jorge Luis Borges
    “I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.”
    ― Jorge Luis Borges
    tags: life
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    Donna Tartt
    “Cubitum eamus?"
    "What?"
    "Nothing.”
    ― Donna Tartt, The Secret History
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    Donna Tartt
    “In short: I felt my existence was tainted, in some subtle but essential way.”
    ― Donna Tartt, The Secret History
    tags: donna-tartt, secret-history
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    E.A. Bucchianeri
    “So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.”
    ― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
    tags: grief, grief-inspirational, heartbreak, life, life-lessons, love, love-hurts, love-story, price-of-love, prices, romance, sad, sad-but-true, sadness, true-love
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    Nikita Gill
    “We have calcium in our bones, iron in our veins, carbon in our souls, and nitrogen in our brains. 93 percent stardust, with souls made of flames, we are all just stars that have people names.”
    ― Nikita Gill
    tags: poetry, stars
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    Nikita Gill
    “Some people will always taste like fire and leave the ones that love them tasting like ash.”
    ― Nikita Gill, Your Soul is a River
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    Alejandro Jodorowsky
    “Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.”
    ― Alejandro Jodorowsky
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    William Shakespeare
    “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
    tags: self-determination, self-responsibility, timidity
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    “Am I to be thought the only criminal, when all human kind sinned against me?”
    ― Mary Shelly, Frankenstein
    tags: gothic-literature
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    Frank O'Hara
    “Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern.”
    ― Frank O'Hara, Meditations in an Emergency
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    Madeline Miller
    “He is half of my soul, as the poets say.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
    tags: inspirational, love
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    Madeline Miller
    “When he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
    tags: death, death-of-a-loved-one, love
    3913 likes



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