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    Walter M. Miller Jr.
    “You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”
    ― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz
    tags: body-soul, misattributed-to-c-s-lewis
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina
    tags: family, first-sentence
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “I think... if it is true that
    there are as many minds as there
    are heads, then there are as many
    kinds of love as there are hearts.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: care, diversity, heart, individuality, love, mind, seduction, soul
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: romantic
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    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    ― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
    tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
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    Joseph Addison
    “Should the whole frame of nature round him break,
    In ruin and confusion hurled,
    He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack,
    And stand secure amidst a falling world.”
    ― Joseph Addison
    tags: apocalypse
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    Angela Carter
    “Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.”
    ― Angela Carter
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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir
    tags: feminism
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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir
    tags: freedom-of-choice, heterosexuality, homosexuality, love
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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman Destroyed
    tags: books, culture, literature
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    Oscar Wilde
    “This wallpaper is dreadful, one of us will have to go.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: last-words, taste, wallpaper
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    Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.
    “Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
    ― Roald Dahl
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    Suzanne Collins
    “You’ve got about as much charm as a dead slug.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
    tags: the-hunger-games
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    Angela Carter
    “I will tell you what Jeanne was like. She was like a piano in a country where everyone has had their hands cut off.”
    ― Angela Carter
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    Karen Joy Fowler
    “Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter.”
    ― Karen Joy Fowler
    tags: jane-austen-book-club, kathy-baker
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    Voltaire
    “God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: god, voltaire
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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
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    George Carlin
    “Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: cynicism, disillusionment, idealism
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    Lord Byron
    “And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on.”
    ― George Gordon Byron
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    Billy Graham
    “When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.”
    ― Billy Graham
    tags: brave, bravery
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one'.... (The man who first said that) was probably a coward.... He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “It could be worse,' Passini said respectfully. "There is nothing worse than war."
    Defeat is worse."
    I do not believe it," Passini said still respectfully. "What is defeat? You go home.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
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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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    H.G. Wells
    “It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.”
    ― H.G. Wells, The Time Machine
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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male's arrogance made it "a discussion”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
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    Jane Jacobs
    “We expect too much of new buildings, and too little of ourselves.”
    ― Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
    tags: buildings, expectations
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “We have art in order not to die of the truth.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: art
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    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind
    tags: art, hunger, paris, starving
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    Susan Sontag
    “Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art. ”
    ― Susan Sontag
    tags: art, art-criticism, criticism, critique, intelligence, interpretation, scholars, scholarship
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    Jeremy Bentham
    “...the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.”
    ― Jeremy Bentham
    tags: philosophy, utilitarianism
    116 likes



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