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“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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“Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books...”
― Richard Wright, Black Boy

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#3

“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
― Khaled Hosseini

tags: life

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#4

“You don't have anything
if you don't have the stories.”
― Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony

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#5

“Adventure is just bad planning.”
― Roald Amundsen

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#6

“You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?”
― Edward Albee

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#7

“Surely only boring people went in for conversations consisting of questions and answers. The art of true conversation consisted in the play of minds.”
― Ved Mehta, All for Love

tags: conversation

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#8

“You will always be the bread and the knife, not to mention the crystal goblet and—somehow—the wine.”
― Billy Collins

tags: poetry

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#9

“My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.”
― Louis Adamic

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#10

“But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.”
― Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid

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#11

“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
― Zelda Fitzgerald

tags: love

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#12

“If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.”
― Charles Darwin, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–82

tags: arts, life, music, poetry

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#13

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

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#14

“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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#15

“Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

tags: life, unfairness

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#16

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life

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#17

“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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#18

“Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is the way you can both hate and love something you are not sure you understand.”
― Dorothy Allison, Two or Three Things I Know for Sure

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#19

“The heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.”
― Noah Webster

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#20

“Life is a beautiful magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.”
― Charles Chaplin

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#21

“And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on.”
― George Gordon Byron

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#22

“For man is essentially alone, and one should pity him and love him and grieve with him.”
― Halldór Laxness

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#23

“It is never too late to be wise.”
― Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

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#24

“He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.”
― Rafael Sabatini, Scaramouche

tags: epitaph, first-sentence, great-first-lines, laughter, literary, merriment, opening-lines

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#25

“In the menu, there should be a climax and a culmination. Come to it gently. One will suffice.”
― Alice B. Toklas

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#26

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

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#27

“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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#28

“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

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#29

“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter”
― John Keats, Ode On A Grecian Urn And Other Poems

tags: philosophy, religion, science

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#30

“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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