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    Dave Eggers
    “We are unusual and tragic and alive.”
    ― dave eggers
    tags: life
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    Dave Eggers
    “But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them.”
    ― Dave Eggers, What Is the What
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, The Road
    tags: life
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    Dave Eggers
    “GOD: I own you like I own the caves.
    THE OCEAN: Not a chance. No comparison.
    GOD: I made you. I could tame you.
    THE OCEAN: At one time, maybe. But not now.
    GOD: I will come to you, freeze you, break you.
    THE OCEAN: I will spread myself like wings. I am a billion tiny feathers. You have no idea what's happened to me.”
    ― Dave Eggers, How We Are Hungry
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    Dave Eggers
    “I see colors like you hear jet planes.”
    ― Dave Eggers, How We Are Hungry
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    Augusten Burroughs
    “I, myself, am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.”
    ― Augusten Burroughs
    tags: flaws, individuality
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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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    Jeffrey Eugenides
    “In the end, it wasn't death that surprised her but the stubbornness of life.”
    ― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
    tags: death, life
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    Dave Eggers
    “It is no way to live, to wait to love.”
    ― Dave Eggers
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    Dave Eggers
    “I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love.”
    ― Dave Eggers, What Is the What
    tags: carpe-diem, love
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    Dave Eggers
    “Humans are divided between those who can still look through the eyes of youth and those who cannot.”
    ― Dave Eggers, What Is the What
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    Dave Eggers
    “The only infallible truth of our lives is that everything we love in life will be taken from us.”
    ― Dave Eggers
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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “We loved each other with a premature love, marked by a fierceness that so often destroys adult lives.”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
    tags: pp-18
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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “Everything in the world is beautiful, but Man only recognizes beauty if he sees it either seldom or from afar. Listen, today we are gods! Our blue shadows are enormous! We move in a gigantic, joyful world!”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov, The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov
    tags: beauty
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: happiness
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    Bob Dylan
    “Don't criticize what you can't understand.”
    ― Bob Dylan
    tags: condemnation, criticism, song-lyrics
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    Bob Dylan
    “Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.”
    ― Bob Dylan
    tags: beautiful, behind, kind, of, pain, thing
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    “Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
    ― Ernest Benn
    tags: misattributed-groucho-marx, politics, problems
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    Groucho Marx
    “Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, and I'm going to be happy in it.”
    ― Groucho Marx
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    Groucho Marx
    “Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: truism
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    Albert Camus
    “You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, happiness, meaning-of-life
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    Albert Camus
    “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: seasons, strength, trial, triumph
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    “There are perhaps many causes worth dying for, but to me, certainly, there are none worth killing for.”
    ― Albert Dietrich, Army GI, Pacifist CO: The World War II Letters of Frank Dietrich and Albert Dietrich
    tags: martyrdom, misattributed-to-albert-camus, pacifism, principles, war
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: books, children
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah
    tags: inspirational
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah
    tags: art, reminding
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, The Doctor's Dilemma
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
    130288 likes



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