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“If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature and Selected Essays

tags: astronomy, beauty, heavens, nature, night, night-sky, religion, sky, stars

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“Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.”
― Francesco Petrarca

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#3

“The aim of literature ... is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart.”
― Donald Barthelme, Come Back, Dr. Caligari

tags: literature

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#4

“Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.”
― Anne Lamott

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#5

“Ghosts don't haunt us. That's not how it works. They're present among us because we won't let go of them.”
― Sue Grafton, M is for Malice

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#6

“He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

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#7

“Travolti dal torrente dell'incertezza,
i nostri sogni hanno teso le braccia
Per afferrare la terra.
In mattoni e pietra si irrigidiscono
i loro sogni e così sono state costruite
le città dell'uomo.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Lover's Gift

tags: india, poetry, tagore

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#8

“Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.”
― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

tags: book, books, fiction, read, reading, stories, story

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#9

“Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.”
― Richard P. Feynman

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#10

“If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.”
― Katharine Hepburn

tags: katharine-hepburn

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#11

“The bravest people are the ones who don’t mind looking like cowards.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

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#12

“The earth was overwhelmed with beauty and indifferent to it, and I went with a heart ready to crack for its unbearable loveliness.”
― Josephine Winslow Johnson, Now in November

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#13

“You will hear thunder and remember me,
and think: she wanted storms...”
― Anna Akhmatova

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#14

“may you kiss
the wind then turn from it
certain that it will
love your back”
― Lucille Clifton

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#15

“The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

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#16

“People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.”
― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

tags: inadequacy-of-words, salvation, sin, words

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#17

“It's a dangerous mission. You could die out there. You could go on forever.”
― Tess Gallagher

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#18

“No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.”
― Eugene Field

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#19

“Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones.”
― Antonin Artaud

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#20

“Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.”
― Stephen Jay Gould

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#21

“People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: character, humanity

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#22

“The men who cannot laugh at themselves frighten me even more than those who laugh at everything.”
― Anne Perry, The Whitechapel Conspiracy

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#23

“By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

tags: foreshadowing, macbeth

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#24

“Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.”
― Bill Nye

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#25

“Do those things that incline you toward the big questions, and avoid the things that would reduce you and make you trivial.”
― George Saunders

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#26

“Love is the absence of judgment.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

tags: inspiration

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#27

“I want to know everything about you, so I tell you everything about myself.”
― Amy Hempel

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#28

“One eye sees, the other feels.”
― Paul Klee

tags: art

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#29

“The only obsession everyone wants: 'love.' People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you're whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You're whole, and then you're cracked open. ”
― Philip Roth, The Dying Animal

tags: love

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#30

“Any planet is 'Earth' to those that live on it.”
― Isaac Asimov, Pebble in the Sky

tags: normalcy

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