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#1

“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

tags: hell, love, suffering

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#2

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

tags: action, attitude, choice, imagination, inspiration, life, pretend

18011 likes

#3

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: inspirational, life, yourself

27257 likes

#4

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
― Charles W. Eliot

tags: books, friends, reading, teachers

13928 likes

#5

“We are as liable to be corrupted by books as we are by companions.”
― Henry Fielding

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#6

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx

tags: books, humor, reading, television

23101 likes

#7

“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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#8

“All the higher life forms scythed away, just like that. [ . . . ] Nothing but dust and fundamentalists.”
― Terry Pratchett

tags: fundamentalists

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#9

“Why bother with a cunning plan when a simple one will do?”
― Terry Pratchett, Thud!

tags: humor-but-oh-so-true, words-to-live-by

189 likes

#10

“The beginning is always today.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft

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#11

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy

74323 likes

#12

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin

28802 likes

#13

“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.”
― Henry Adams

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#14

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
― Frederick Douglass

7688 likes

#15

“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

tags: inspiration

4194 likes

#16

“Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
― Roald Dahl

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#17

“She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Work: A Story of Experience

tags: books

5872 likes

#18

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

tags: book, inspirational

12713 likes

#19

“Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

tags: humor

5168 likes

#20

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire

9010 likes

#21

“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora

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#22

“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
― Jane Goodall

tags: inspiration

3539 likes

#24

“Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.”
― Arthur Miller

1265 likes

#25

“When I discovered libraries, it was like having Christmas every day.”
― Jean Fritz

1085 likes

#26

“Only when a book is written out of passion is there much hope of its being read with passion.”
― Jean Fritz

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#27

“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: truth

6765 likes

#28

“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
― Walter Cronkite

tags: education, ignorance, intelligence, libraries

3989 likes

#29

“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
― Henry Ward Beecherr

tags: books, humor

7428 likes

#30

“Sometimes the small dreams were all a person needed to live.”
― Amy Lane

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#31

“Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.”
― Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye

tags: age-adult

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