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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
    “It's hard to love a woman and do anything.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: love, woman
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “All the girls in the world were divided into two classes: one class included all the girls in the world except her, and they had all the usual human feelings and were very ordinary girls; while the other class -herself alone- had no weaknesses and was superior to all humanity.”
    ― Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: classic
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    Michael Bassey Johnson
    “The more death, the more birth. People are entering, others are exiting. The cry of a baby, the mourning of others. When others cry, the other are laughing and making merry. The world is mingled with sadness, joy, happiness, anger, wealth, poverty, etc.”
    ― Michael Bassey Johnson
    tags: birth, burial, casket, celebrate, ceremony, christmas, coffin, crying, death, different-people, funeral, happiness, hope, life, lost, mind, mourning, psyche, psychic, re-incarnation, rituals, sadness, soul, tears, thoughts, ups-and-down
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    Marilynne Robinson
    “This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it.”
    ― Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
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    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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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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    Kate Chopin
    “She wanted something to happen - something, anything: she did not know what.”
    ― Kate Chopin
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
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    Stephen Vincent Benét
    “There is a wilderness we walk alone
    However well-companioned”
    ― Stephen Vincent Benét, Western Star
    tags: life-s-journey, poetry-quotes, solitude
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    نزار قباني
    “In the summer
    I stretch out on the shore
    And think of you. Had I told the sea
    What I felt for you,
    It would have left its shores,
    Its shells,
    Its fish,
    And followed me.”
    ― Nizar Qabbani
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  • #12
    I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.
    “I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
    tags: truth
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    Alexandre Dumas
    “I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.”
    ― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
    tags: happiness, pride
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    Charles Dickens
    “I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”
    ― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
    tags: love
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    H.G. Wells
    “We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.”
    ― H.G. Wells
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
    tags: writing
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    Willa Cather
    “The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one’s own.”
    ― Willa Cather
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    Sarah Vowell
    “We are flawed creatures, all of us. Some of us think that means we should fix our flaws. But get rid of my flaws and there would be no one left.”
    ― Sarah Vowell, Take the Cannoli
    tags: flaws, individuality, inspirational
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    Edward Abbey
    “Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.”
    ― Edward Abbey
    tags: truth
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    Chelsea Handler
    “Laugh loudly, laugh often, and most important, laugh at yourself.”
    ― Chelsea Handler, Lies That Chelsea Handler Told Me
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    Alice Hoffman
    “Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.”
    ― Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic
    tags: life
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    William Shakespeare
    “When he shall die,
    Take him and cut him out in little stars,
    And he will make the face of heaven so fine
    That all the world will be in love with night
    And pay no worship to the garish sun.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
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    Gregory Maguire
    “Remember this: Nothing is written in the stars. Not these stars, nor any others. No one controls your destiny.”
    ― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
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    Wallace Thurman
    “I am reminded again that the greatest phrase ever written is words, words, words.”
    ― Wallace Thurman
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    Marshall B. Rosenberg
    “What I want in my life is compassion, a flow between myself and others based on a mutual giving from the heart.”
    ― Marshall B. Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
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    Clive James
    “Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.”
    ― Clive James
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    Mae C. Jemison
    “Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations.”
    ― Mae Jemison
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    Ella Wheeler Wilcox
    “Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes.”
    ― Ella Wheeler Wilcox
    tags: love-and-hate
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Compassion is the basis of morality.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
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    Maya Angelou
    “Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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