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#1

“Books may well be the only true magic.”
― Alice Hoffman

tags: books

#2

“Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.”
― Joseph Campbell

tags: meaning-of-life

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#3

“Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.”
― Marguerite Duras

tags: mothers

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#4

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

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#5

“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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#6

“Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.”
― Richard P. Feynman

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#7

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

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#8

“There's things that happen in a person's life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there's no forgetting them.”
― John Boyne

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#9

“Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.”
― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

tags: friendship

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#10

“His books were the closest thing he had to furniture and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs.”
― Laura Hillenbrand, Seabiscuit: An American Legend

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#11

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
― Neil Gaiman

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#12

“Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.”
― Haruki Marukami

tags: expectation

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#13

“Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.”
― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

tags: william-shakespeare

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#14

“Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”
― Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

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#15

“You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.”
― Stewart O'Nan, The Odds: A Love Story

tags: acceptance, life, love, worth

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#16

“A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.”
― Emily Dickinson

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#17

“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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#18

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

tags: life, navigation

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#19

“Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.”
― Ben Okri

tags: stories

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#20

“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.”
― Louis L'Amour

tags: inspirational, writing

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#21

“I live for coincidences. They briefly give to me the illusion or the hope that there's a pattern to my life, and if there's a pattern, then maybe I'm moving toward some kind of destiny where it's all explained.”
― Jonathan Ames, My Less Than Secret Life: A Diary, Fiction, Essays

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#22

“Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.”
― Erica Jong

tags: courage, talent

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#23

“I think; therefore I am.”
― Rene Descartes

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#24

“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”
― Robert Bloch

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#25

“If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.”
― Seamus Heaney, Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney

tags: expression, finding-your-voice, poetry

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#26

“If you work really hard, and you're kind, amazing things will happen.”
― Conan O'Brien

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#27

“I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.”
― Joshua Slocum, Sailing Alone around the World

tags: alone, books, friends, solitude

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