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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
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    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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  • #5
    Virginia Woolf
    “I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: women
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  • #6
    “The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”
    ― Joe Klaas, The Twelve Steps to Happiness: A Practical Handbook for Understanding and Working the Twelve Step Programs for Alcoholism, Codependency, Eating Disorders, and Other Addictions
    tags: anger, freedom, misattributed-gloria-steinem, truth
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    Alan Moore
    “My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.”
    ― Alan Moore
    tags: life
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    Douglas Adams
    “I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer”
    ― Douglas Adams
    tags: attributed-no-source, humor, misattributed-douglas-adams, wit
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  • #9
    Milan Kundera
    “Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.”
    ― Milan Kundera
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  • #10
    Daphne du Maurier
    “But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”
    ― Daphne du Maurier
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    Joseph Campbell
    “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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    Joseph Campbell
    “The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”
    ― Joseph Campbell
    tags: cave, fear
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    Joseph Campbell
    “If you are falling....dive.”
    ― Joseph Campbell
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    Joseph Campbell
    “Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time.”
    ― Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth
    tags: advice-for-daily-living, inspirational, reading
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    Joseph Campbell
    “Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half contends that they are not facts at all. As a result we have people who consider themselves believers because they accept metaphors as facts, and we have others who classify themselves as atheists because they think religious metaphors are lies.”
    ― Joseph Campbell, Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor
    tags: atheists, believers, metaphor, myth, organized-religion, religion, theists
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    Douglas Adams
    “The story so far:
    In the beginning the Universe was created.
    This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
    tags: humor, scifi
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  • #17
    Stephen King
    “When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, There's just something about you that pisses me off.”
    ― Stephen King, Storm of the Century
    tags: god, humor, religion
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  • #18
    Helen Keller
    “When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
    ― Helen Keller
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    C.S. Lewis
    “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Always do what you are afraid to do.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: inspirational
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    Anaïs Nin
    “Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
    ― Anais Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
    tags: friendship
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    Anaïs Nin
    “Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.”
    ― Anais Nin
    tags: inspirational
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  • #23
    Anaïs Nin
    “There is not one big cosmic meaning for all; there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.”
    ― Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
    tags: anais-nin, individuality, meaning-of-life
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    Anaïs Nin
    “In chaos, there is fertility.”
    ― Anais Nin
    tags: anais-nin, chaos, diary
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  • #25
    Anaïs Nin
    “If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses”
    ― Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
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    C.G. Jung
    “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
    tags: chemistry, relationships
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  • #27
    C.G. Jung
    “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
    tags: knowing-others, perception, self-awareness, understanding
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  • #28
    C.G. Jung
    “Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
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  • #29
    C.G. Jung
    “The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
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    C.G. Jung
    “Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
    tags: psychiatry, sanity
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  • #31
    C.G. Jung
    “One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
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