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#1

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

tags: books, thought

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#2

“Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them.”
― Andy Rooney

tags: humor, sweetness

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#3

“If you knew your potential to feel good, you would ask no one to be different so that you can feel good. You would free yourself of all of that cumbersome impossibility of needing to control the world, or control your mate, or control your child. You are the only one who creates your reality. For no one else can think for you, no one else can do it. It is only you, every bit of it you.”
― Esther Hicks

tags: abraham, abraham-hicks, allow, control-freaks, control-issues, controlling, esther-hicks, law-of-attraction, peace-of-mind, reality, reality-check, self-determination

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#4

“The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.”
― Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

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#5

“In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody else. It's important to combine the two in just the right amount.”
― Haruki Murakami, After Dark

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#6

“People with places to go and people with no place to go; people with a purpose and people with no purpose; people trying to hold time back and people trying to urge it forward”
― Haruki Murakami, After Dark

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#7

“It's not as if our lives are simply divided into light and dark. There's a shadowy middle ground. Recognizing and understanding the shadows is what a healthy intelligence does.”
― Haruki Murakami, After Dark

tags: life, understanding

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#8

“Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

tags: memory

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#9

“I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it's just too much. The current's too strong. They've got to let go, drift apart. That's how it is with us. It's a shame, Kath, because we've loved each other all our lives. But in the end, we can't stay together forever.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

tags: never-let-me-go

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#10

“Sometimes I get so immersed in my own company, if I unexpectedly run into someone I know, it's a bit of a shock and takes me a while to adjust.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

tags: 208, solitude

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#11

“You have to accept that sometimes that's how things happen in this world. People's opinions, their feelings, they go one way, then the other. It just so happens you grew up at a certain point in this process.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

tags: never-let-me-go

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#12

“She always wanted to believe in things.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

tags: believe, imagination

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#13

“Because maybe, in a way, we didn't leave it behind nearly as much as we might once have thought. Because somewhere underneath, a part of us stayed like that: fearful of the world around us, and no matter how much we despised ourselves for it--unable quite to let each other go.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

tags: leaving, let-go, never-let-go

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#14

“You need to remember that. If you’re to have decent lives, you have to know who you are and what lies ahead of you, every one of you.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

tags: life, self-awareness

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#15

“And what made these heart-to-hearts possible--you might even say what made the whole friendship possible during that time--was this understanding we had that anything we told each other during these moments would be treated with careful respect: that we'd honor confidences, and that no matter how much we rowed, we wouldn't use against each other anything we'd talked about during those sessions.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

tags: friendship, honor, respect, understanding

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#16

“It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.”
― W.G. Sebald, Vertigo

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#17

“He'll be coming and going" he had said. "One day you'll see him and another you won't. He doesn't like being tied down--and of course he has other countries to attend to. It's quite all right. He'll often drop in. Only you mustn't press him. He's wild, you know. Not like a tame lion.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

tags: aslan, lion

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#18

“All shall be done, but it may be harder than you think.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

tags: inspirational

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#19

“There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them.
But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Fifth Mountain

tags: encouragement, wisdom

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#20

“If you have a past with which you feel dissatisfied, then forget it, now. Imagine a new story for your life and believe in it. Focus only on the moments when you achieved what you desired, and that strength will help you to get what you want.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Fifth Mountain

tags: dissatisfied, forget, past, strength

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#21

“Make whatever decision you wish but never forget one thing: all of you are much better than you believed. Take advantage of the chance that tragedy has given you; not everyone is capable of doing so”
― Paulo Coelho, The Fifth Mountain

tags: decisions-inspirational

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#22

“Singing from your heart is like fresh air that heal you again from the pollution around you”
― Ahmed Farrag

tags: air, heart, sing

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#23

“I thought it might be a great thing to be the air. I could be something and nothing all at the same time. I could be necessary and also invisible. Everyone would need me and no one would be able to see me.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

tags: air, ari, aristotle, invisible

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#24

“I found my way to street level and into what optimists call 'fresh air”
― Gunnar Staalesen, Kalde hjerter

tags: air, street, way

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#25

“The truth." Dumbledore sighed. "It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

tags: truth

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#26

“Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.”
― J.K. rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

tags: fear

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#27

“For those who are lost, there will always be cities that feel like home.”
― Simon Van Booy, Everything Beautiful Began After

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#28

“You are in the place that was meant for you. Everything had to be arranged like this to get you here.”
― Simon Van Booy, Everything Beautiful Began After

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#29

“To love again, you must not discard what has happened to you, but take from it the strength you’ll need to carry on.”
― Simon Van Booy, Everything Beautiful Began After

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#30

“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

tags: identity

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