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    Charles Bukowski
    “what matters most is how well you walk through the fire”
    ― Charles Bukowski
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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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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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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
    92160 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
    71689 likes

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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality
    69681 likes

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    Philip José Farmer
    “Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.”
    ― Philip José Farmer
    tags: imagination, writing
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    Lewis Carroll
    “Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
    Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
    All mimsy were the borogoves,
    And the mome raths outgrabe.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky and Other Poems
    tags: alice, carroll, jabberwock, jabberwocky, lewis, wonderland
    1242 likes

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    Barbara W. Tuchman
    “Books are the carriers of civilization...They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.”
    ― Barbara W. Tuchman
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    Colette
    “You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”
    ― Colette
    tags: enthusiasm, foolishness, silliness, wisdom
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    Edith Wharton
    “There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it.”
    ― Edith Wharton
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    Thornton Wilder
    “Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.”
    ― Thornton Wilder, Our Town
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    Edward Hirsch
    “I am a tiny seashell
    that has secretly drifted ashore
    and carries the sound of the ocean
    surging through its body.”
    ― Edward Hirsch
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    A.A. Milne
    “I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.”
    ― A.A. Milne
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    Anton Chekhov
    “Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and when he dies only the five senses that we know perish with him, and the other ninety-five remain alive.”
    ― Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard
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    Lorrie Moore
    “All the world's a stage we're going through.”
    ― Lorrie Moore, Anagrams
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    Diana Gabaldon
    “Don't be afraid. There's the two of us now.”
    ― Diana Gabaldon, Outlander
    tags: jamie-fraser
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    “One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.”
    ― Stephen Hawking
    tags: philosophy, science
    8639 likes

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    Let our scars fall in love.
    “Let our scars fall in love.”
    ― Galway Kinnell
    tags: poetry
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    Marianne Moore
    “Your thorns are the best part of you.”
    ― Marianne Moore
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    Chris Rock
    “Comedy is the blues for people who can’t sing.”
    ― Chris Rock
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    Alice Walker
    “No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
    ― Alice Walker
    tags: acceptance, friendship
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    Robinson Jeffers
    “The tides are in our veins, we still mirror the stars, life is your child, but there is in me
    Older and harder than life and more impartial, the eye that watched before there was an ocean.”
    ― Robinson Jeffers
    tags: nature, poetry, the-continent-s-end
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    Walter Mosley
    “We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky.”
    ― Walter Mosley, Blue Light
    tags: change, growth
    2146 likes

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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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    Steve Jobs
    “Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”
    ― Steve Jobs
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    Anthony Burgess
    “Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.”
    ― Anthony Burgess
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