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    Dave Eggers
    “Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.”
    ― Dave Eggers
    tags: books, time
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    Nikos Kazantzakis
    “I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.”
    ― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek
    tags: happiness, life, sea
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    W.E.B. Du Bois
    “The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.”
    ― W.E.B. Du Bois
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    Victor Hugo
    “He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
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    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
    ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    tags: coldness, depression, happiness, life, sad, sadness, sorrow
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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”
    ― Gabriel García Márquez
    tags: happiness
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    Jeffrey Eugenides
    “It was one of those humid days when the atmosphere gets confused. Sitting on the porch, you could feel it: the air wishing it was water.”
    ― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
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    Vita Sackville-West
    “Damn you, spoilt creature; I shan’t make you love me any the more by giving myself away like this.”
    ― Vita Sackville-West, The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf
    tags: correspondence, love, writers
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    Horton Foote
    “I’ve known people that the world has thrown everything at to discourage them...to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a dignity. They face life and don’t ask quarters.”
    ― Horton Foote
    tags: inspirational, life
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    Joseph Campbell
    “Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.”
    ― Joseph Campbell
    tags: meaning-of-life
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    Stefan Zweig
    “The strength of a love is always misjudged if we evaluate it by its immediate cause and not the stress that went before it, the dark and hollow space full of disappointment and loneliness that precedes all the great events in the heart's history.”
    ― Stefan Zweig, The Burning Secret and other stories
    tags: disappointment, heart, loneliness, love
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    Nikolai Gogol
    “The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.”
    ― Nikolai V. Gogol
    tags: humor, sadness
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    Nikolai Gogol
    “...how much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners...”
    ― Nikolai Gogol
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    Shaun Tan
    “You discover how confounding the world is when you try to draw it. You look at a car, and you try to see its car-ness, and you’re like an immigrant to your own world. You don’t have to travel to encounter weirdness. You wake up to it.”
    ― Shaun Tan
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    Hans Christian Andersen
    “But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.”
    ― Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid
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    Zelda Fitzgerald
    “Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
    ― Zelda Fitzgerald
    tags: love
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    George R.R. Martin
    “They can keep their heaven. When I die, I’d sooner go to Middle-earth.”
    ― George R.R. Martin
    tags: fantasy, heaven
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    Charlotte Eriksson
    “I could write about how I feel when I sing, write and create something from heartbreak, sorrow, sadness or just simply nothingness. How nothingness can become the most beautiful, unexplainable feeling that makes you forget about gravity for an hour.”
    ― Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps
    tags: art, beautiful-chaos, creative-process, creativity, heartbreak, inspiration, music, poetry, singing, writing, writing-inspiration
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    Daniel Defoe
    “It is never too late to be wise.”
    ― Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
    tags: empathy, thankful, understanding, understanding-others
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: demographics
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    Sue Grafton
    “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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    John Boyne
    “There's things that happen in a person's life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there's no forgetting them.”
    ― John Boyne
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    John Keats
    “Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”
    ― John Keats, Letters of John Keats
    tags: art, depression, growth, life, pain, suffering, wisdom
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    John Steinbeck
    “There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.”
    ― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
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    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
    tags: books, reading, truth
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    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “Not evil. Moronic, which isn't quite the same thing. Evil presupposes a moral decision, intention, and some forethought. A moron or a lout, however, doesn't stop to think or reason. He acts on instinct, like a stable animal, convinced he's doing good, that he's always right, and sanctimoniously proud to go around f***ing up ... anyone he perceives to be different from himself, be it because of skin color, creed, language, nationality, or ... leisure habits. What the world needs is more thoroughly evil people and fewer borderline pigheads.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
    tags: philosophical-humor
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    Joseph Conrad
    “Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.”
    ― Joseph Conrad, Chance
    tags: women
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    Coco Chanel
    “Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. ”
    ― Coco Chanel
    tags: failure, success, time
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    John Lennon
    “I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?”
    ― John Lennon
    tags: beatles, dragons, dreamers, dreaming, dreams, fairies, faith, mythology, nightmares, reality, truth
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