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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
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    Elbert Hubbard
    “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
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    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    André Gide
    “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
    ― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves
    tags: life, love
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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
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    Elie Wiesel
    “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
    ― Elie Wiesel
    tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy
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    Pablo Neruda
    “I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
    ― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
    tags: love, poetry
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
    tags: love
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    Toni Morrison
    “If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
    ― Toni Morrison
    tags: books, writing
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    Stephen King
    “If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: reading, writing
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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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    Oscar Wilde
    “Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: books, morality, reading, writing
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    William Faulkner
    “Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
    Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
    ― William Faulkner
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    Stephen King
    “Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: writing
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    Elif Shafak
    “Either grant me the bliss of the ignorant or give me the strength to bear the knowledge.”
    ― Elif Shafak, The Bastard of Istanbul
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    Alok Vaid-Menon
    “It’s not just that you internalize the shame; rather, it becomes you. You no longer need the people at school telling you not to dress like that; you already do it to yourself.”
    ― Alok Vaid-Menon, Beyond the Gender Binary
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    John Keats
    “I never knew before, what such a love as you have made me feel, was; I did not believe in it; my Fancy was afraid of it, lest it should burn me up. But if you will fully love me, though there may be some fire, 'twill not be more than we can bear when moistened and bedewed with Pleasures.”
    ― John Keats, Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne
    tags: bright-star, john-keats, love-letters, non-fiction
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you - especially when you are near me, as now: it is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter of your little frame. And if that boisterous channel, and two hundred miles or so of land some broad between us, I am afraid that cord of communion will be snapt; and then I've a nervous notion I should take to bleeding inwardly. As for you - you'd forget me.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: bilbo-baggins, dissipation, old-age
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    Patricia A. McKillip
    “Night is not something to endure until dawn. It is an element, like wind or fire. Darkness is its own kingdom; it moves to its own laws, and many living things dwell in it.”
    ― Patricia A. McKillip, Harpist in the Wind
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    Sophia Rose
    “I'm trying to be a better man, Liz. Are you watching?”
    ― Sophia Rose, The Darcy Monologues
    tags: anthology, jane-austen-inspired, romance, short-story-collection
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    Micah Nemerever
    “I hope you looked west while I was looking east, and that for a moment you met my eyes without knowing it. I know you never look away, ever when your eyes are closed, but I'm never certain you can see what's really there.
    I miss you to pieces.
    Yours Always
    - J”
    ― Micah Nemerever, These Violent Delights
    tags: dark-academia, letters
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    Victoria Lee
    “The question isn't whether magic is real. It's whether I can touch it without being consumed by it.”
    ― Victoria Lee, A Lesson in Vengeance
    tags: dark-academia, dark-magic, darkness, magic
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    Micah Nemerever
    “I always think of a passage from the Symposium, this allegory about people who started off as two halves of a whole, but then something cut them apart, and they spend their whole lives looking for their other half so they can fit themselves back together. And that's how it feels, it hurts, it's like I lost you before I was born.”
    ― Micah Nemerever, These Violent Delights
    tags: dark-academia, symposium
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    M.L. Rio
    “Sleep crawled on top of me like an affectionate, purring pet-”
    ― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains
    tags: dark-academia, humor, oliver-marks, pet, sleep
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    Laura Chouette
    “We were never supposed to be in love; for everything that exists inside a heart eventually dies.”
    ― Laura Chouette, Profound Reverie
    tags: aesthetic, dark-academia, deep-quotes, life-quotes, literature, modern-poetry, poetry, poets, quotes-about-life
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    Ezgi Yücebaş
    “...that means we’re in love,” His eyes were never leaving her lips, “madly so.”
    The spirits waltzed across the leaves, enclosing two lovers, singing their own melody as the bodies became one.”
    ― Ezgi Yücebaş, Curse of the Stars
    tags: dark-academia, dark-fantasy, fantasy, historical-fantasy, love, romance, witchcraft, yafantasy, young-adult
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    “An act of translation is always an act of betrayal.”
    ― R. F. Kuang
    tags: babel, dark-academia, linguistics, magical-realism, r-f-kuang, translation
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