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    David Foster Wallace
    “Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”
    ― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
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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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    John Muir
    “When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”
    ― John Muir
    tags: inspirational
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    Nathanael West
    “Numbers constitute the only universal language.”
    ― Nathanael West
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    Tracy Chevalier
    “I have consistently loved books that I've read when I've been sick in bed.”
    ― Tracy Chevalier
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    Joe Raposo
    “Sunny day
    Sweepin' the clouds away
    On my way to where the air is sweet”
    ― Joe Raposo
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    Selma Lagerlöf
    “Nothing on earth can make up for the loss of one who has loved you.”
    ― Selma Lagerlöf
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Compassion is the basis of morality.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
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    Jeffrey Eugenides
    “Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.”
    ― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
    tags: brain, mind
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    Kate DiCamillo
    “Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart.”
    ― Kate DiCamillo, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
    tags: edward
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    René Descartes
    “I think; therefore I am.”
    ― Rene Descartes
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    Aung San Suu Kyi
    “The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear”
    ― Aung San Suu Kyi
    tags: civil-rights
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    Anita Desai
    “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.”
    ― Anita Desai
    tags: travel
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    Jhumpa Lahiri
    “That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
    ― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake
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    Maxine Hong Kingston
    “In a time of destruction, create something.”
    ― Maxine Hong Kingston
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    Jane Austen
    “Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.”
    ― Jane Austen, Emma
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    Albert Einstein
    “The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: wonder
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    Zora Neale Hurston
    “Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.”
    ― Zora Neale Hurston
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    Helen Keller
    “I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
    ― Helen Keller
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    Charles M. Schulz
    “All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
    ― Charles M. Schulz
    tags: chocolate, food, humor
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    S.E. Hinton
    “If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky.”
    ― S.E. Hinton
    tags: friends, friendship
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    Raymond Chandler
    “To say goodbye is to die a little.”
    ― Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye
    tags: change, life, parting, romantics
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    “Maybe some people just aren't meant to be in our lives forever. Maybe some people are just passing through. It's like some people just come through our lives to bring us something: a gift, a blessing, a lesson we need to learn. And that's why they're here. You'll have that gift forever.”
    ― Danielle Steel, The Gift
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    Andre Dubus III
    “The truth is life is full of joy and full of great sorrow, but you can't have one without the other.”
    ― Andre Dubus III, House of Sand and Fog
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    William Golding
    “Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.”
    ― William Golding, Lord of the Flies
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    Tim O'Brien
    “That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.”
    ― Tim O'Brien
    tags: fiction, on-fiction, stories, truth, writing
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    Zadie Smith
    “Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.”
    ― Zadie Smith, White Teeth
    tags: history
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    Evelyn Waugh
    “Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.”
    ― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited
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    Andrew Solomon
    “I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.”
    ― Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
    tags: conversation, depression, fear, life, speaking, words
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    Willa Cather
    “The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one’s own.”
    ― Willa Cather
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