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    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: books, friends, novelist-quotes
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden
    tags: happiness
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: sleep
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway: A Literary Reference
    tags: war
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    Jeffrey Eugenides
    “You never get over it, but you get to where it doesn't bother you so much.”
    ― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
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    Jeffrey Eugenides
    “She wanted out of that decorating scheme.”
    ― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
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    George Orwell
    “In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
    ― George Orwell
    tags: truth
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    George Orwell
    “The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
    ― George Orwell
    tags: history, propaganda, rewriting-history
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    George Orwell
    “Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: truth
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    George Orwell
    “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
    ― George Orwell
    tags: freedom-of-speech, liberty
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    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    “Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not.”
    ― Nathaniel Hawthorne
    tags: inspirational
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    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    “Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.”
    ― Nathaniel Hawthorne
    tags: life, living
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    William Shakespeare
    “This above all: to thine own self be true,
    And it must follow, as the night the day,
    Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Hamlet
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    William Shakespeare
    “Lord, what fools these mortals be!”
    ― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
    tags: comedy, elizabethan, robin-goodfellow
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    William Shakespeare
    “We know what we are, but not what we may be.”
    ― William Shakespeare
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    William Shakespeare
    “Presume not that I am the thing I was;
    For God doth know, so shall the world perceive,
    That I have turn'd away my former self;
    So will I those that kept me company.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part Two
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    William Shakespeare
    “To die, - To sleep, - To sleep!
    Perchance to dream: - ay, there's the rub;
    For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
    When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
    Must give us pause: there's the respect
    That makes calamity of so long life;”
    ― William Shakespeare, Hamlet
    tags: afterlife, death-and-dying, hamlet, shakespeare
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    William Shakespeare
    “Et tu, Brute?”
    ― William Shakespeare , Julius Caesar
    tags: betrayal, brutus, julius-caesar, shakespeare
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    William Shakespeare
    “In time we hate that which we often fear.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra
    tags: fear, hate, hatred
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    William Shakespeare
    “Do you not know I am a woman? when I think, I must speak.”
    ― William Shakespeare, As You Like It
    tags: iii-2
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    William Shakespeare
    “I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.”
    ― William Shakespeare
    tags: as-you-like-it, celia, nature, poetry
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    William Shakespeare
    “The lady doth protest too much, methinks.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Hamlet
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    William Shakespeare
    “Oh, I am fortune's fool!”
    ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
    tags: classic, fate, fortune, luck
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    Gustave Flaubert
    “Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
    ― Gustave Flaubert
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    Gustave Flaubert
    “Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.”
    ― Flaubert
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    Gustave Flaubert
    “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”
    ― Gustave Flaubert
    tags: tourism, travel
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
    "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: adventuring, death, time
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
    tags: fellowship, gamgee, hobbit, samwise, tolkien
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I am in fact, a hobbit in all but size”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: hobbit, tolkien
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    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
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