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    E.E. Cummings
    “and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
    and whatever a sun will always sing is you”
    ― E.E. Cummings
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    Anne Bradstreet
    “Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.”
    ― Anne Bradstreet
    tags: flattery, praise, words
    1833 likes

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    Caroline Gordon
    “A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.”
    ― Caroline Gordon
    tags: books, imagination, writing
    2610 likes

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    Zadie Smith
    “The past is always tense, the future perfect.”
    ― Zadie Smith
    tags: future, grammar, language, past
    2870 likes

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    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
    3146 likes

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    Walker Evans
    “Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.”
    ― Walker Evans
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    Joni Mitchell
    “We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.”
    ― Joni Mitchell
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    J.G. Ballard
    “I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen.”
    ― J.G. Ballard
    tags: imagination, immortality
    1860 likes

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    Ishmael Beah
    “Some nights the sky wept stars that quickly floated and disappeared into the darkness before our wishes could meet them. ”
    ― Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
    tags: nonfiction, pretty
    1522 likes

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    Anthony Powell
    “I get a warm feeling among my books.”
    ― Anthony Powell
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    Umberto Eco
    “We live for books.”
    ― Umberto Eco
    tags: bibliophiles, book-lovers, books, reading
    5015 likes

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    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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    My course is set for an uncharted sea.
    “My course is set for an uncharted sea.”
    ― Dante Alighieri
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    Henry Miller
    “The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.”
    ― Henry Miller
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: attributed-no-source, happiness
    23765 likes

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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Compassion is the basis of morality.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
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    Ben Okri
    “Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.”
    ― Ben Okri
    tags: stories
    2840 likes

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    Seán O'Casey
    “Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.”
    ― Sean O'Casey
    tags: joy, laughter
    2632 likes

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    William Wordsworth
    “The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.”
    ― William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads
    tags: finale-of-middlemarch, tintern-abbey
    3563 likes

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    E.Y. Harburg
    “Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.”
    ― E.Y. Harburg
    2955 likes

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    François Rabelais
    “I go to seek a Great Perhaps.”
    ― François Rabelais
    tags: death, french-renaissance-writer, john-green, last-words, life, looking-for-alaska, meaning-of-life, miles-halter
    4569 likes

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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated
    3888 likes

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    Conan O'Brien
    “If you work really hard, and you're kind, amazing things will happen.”
    ― Conan O'Brien
    3092 likes

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    Alfred Tennyson
    “I will drink life to the lees.”
    ― Alfred Tennyson
    808 likes

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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “And the rest is rust and stardust.”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
    4856 likes

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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
    ― Rumi
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    Lord Byron
    “In secret we met
    In silence I grieve,
    That thy heart could forget,
    Thy spirit deceive.”
    ― George Gordon Byron
    2185 likes

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    Margaret Fuller
    “Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”
    ― Margaret Fuller
    tags: read, reader, reading
    4079 likes

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    Dorothea Lange
    “Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don't realize it.”
    ― Dorothea Lange
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: heart, importance, inspiration, secret, the-little-prince
    9965 likes



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