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    Richard Matheson
    “That which you believe becomes your world.”
    ― Richard Matheson, What Dreams May Come
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    W.E.B. Du Bois
    “Believe in life! Always human beings will progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.”
    ― W.E.B. Du Bois
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    John Updike
    “Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. ”
    ― John Updike
    tags: to-keep-up-ur-dreams-_
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Spring is the time of plans and projects.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: spring
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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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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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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    André Gide
    “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
    ― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves
    tags: life, love
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    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor
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    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
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    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy
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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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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: paraphrased, strength
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
    tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton
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    Mother Teresa
    “If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: happiness
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    Sigmund Freud
    “Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.”
    ― Sigmund Freud
    tags: emotion, expression, freud, repression, self-expression
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    Rabindranath Tagore
    “A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.”
    ― Rabindranath Tagore
    tags: emotion, logic
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    James Thurber
    “Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.”
    ― James Thurber
    tags: emotion, humour, memory
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    Marianne Moore
    “The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence.”
    ― Marianne Moore
    tags: emotion, silence
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    Horatius
    “Anger is a brief madness.”
    ― Horace
    tags: anger, emotion
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    Stendhal
    “A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.”
    ― Stendhal
    tags: love
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    James Joyce
    “Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants willing to be dethroned.”
    ― James Joyce
    tags: fear, secrets, silence, tiredness
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    “There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless.”
    ― John Barrymore Jr.
    tags: ancestry, secrets
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    Pat Conroy
    “I was trying to unravel the complicated trigonometry of the radical thought that silence could make up the greatest lie ever told.”
    ― Pat Conroy, South of Broad
    tags: greatest-lie, secrets, silence
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    Jean de la Fontaine
    “Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.”
    ― Jean de La Fontaine
    tags: jean-de-la-fontaine, secrets
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    Lewis Carroll
    “It is the one of the great secrets of life that those things are most worth doing,we do for others.”
    ― Lewis Carroll
    tags: secrets
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    James Joyce
    “His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before.”
    ― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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