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    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: inspirational, love
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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  • #3
    Walter Kirn
    “Art, art of any kind, shows that folks are trying.”
    ― Walter Kirn, Mission to America
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    Thor Heyerdahl
    “Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.”
    ― Thor Heyerdahl
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  • #5
    Kiran Desai
    “The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.”
    ― Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss
    tags: change, past, present
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  • #6
    Boris Pasternak
    “I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them. ”
    ― Boris Pasternak
    tags: life
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  • #7
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Not all those who wander are lost.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: bilbo, journey, lost, quest, travel, wander
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  • #8
    Jane Smiley
    “Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
    ― Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel
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  • #9
    Do one thing every day that scares you.
    “Do one thing every day that scares you.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: attributed, fear, inspiration
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  • #10
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    “Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.”
    ― Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign
    tags: inspirational, sci-fi, vorkosigan
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  • #11
    Joseph Conrad
    “It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.”
    ― Joseph Conrad, An Outcast of the Islands
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  • #12
    Gustave Flaubert
    “Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.”
    ― Gustave Flaubert
    tags: inspirational, life, work
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  • #13
    Isaac Asimov
    “Any planet is 'Earth' to those that live on it.”
    ― Isaac Asimov, Pebble in the Sky
    tags: normalcy
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  • #14
    Nicholson Baker
    “I woke up thinking a very pleasant thought. There is lots left in the world to read.”
    ― Nicholson Baker, The Anthologist
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  • #15
    Abigail Van Buren
    “The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”
    ― Abigail Van Buren
    tags: character, life, wisdom
    7576 likes

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  • #16
    Haruki Murakami
    “Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.”
    ― Haruki Marukami
    tags: expectation
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  • #17
    Gilles Deleuze
    “A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.”
    ― Gilles Deleuze, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
    tags: anarchy, freedom, inspirational, lateral-thinking, philosophy, rationalism
    2542 likes

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  • #18
    I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
    “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
    ― Jorge Luis Borges
    tags: books, library
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  • #19
    Pierre Boulle
    “There's always some further action to take.”
    ― Pierre Boulle
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  • #20
    Johnny Cash
    “All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love.”
    ― Johnny Cash
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  • #21
    Irwin Shaw
    “There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.”
    ― Irwin Shaw
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  • #22
    Ralph Ellison
    “What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?”
    ― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
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  • #23
    “Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.”
    ― Rob Reiner
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  • #24
    Keri Hulme
    “You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they've been read...”
    ― Keri Hulme, The Bone People
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  • #25
    Douglas Adams
    “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
    39248 likes

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  • #26
    Ben Okri
    “Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.”
    ― Ben Okri
    tags: stories
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  • #27
    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
    177129 likes

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  • #28
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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  • #29
    Erica Jong
    “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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  • #30
    Charlotte Brontë
    “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism, self-awareness, self-determination, women
    13885 likes



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