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#1

“Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.”
― Kathleen Winsor

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#2

“The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet black bough.”
― Ezra Pound

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“I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen.”
― J.G. Ballard

tags: imagination, immortality

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#4

“Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: eating-reading

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#5

“Nothing on earth can make up for the loss of one who has loved you.”
― Selma Lagerlöf

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#6

“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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#9

“We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.”
― Stephen Hawking

tags: inspirational, science

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#10

“Anticipation! It occurred to him that his anticipation was more pleasant to him than the experiencing.”
― Patricia Highsmith, The Talented Mr. Ripley

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#11

“I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.”
― Norman Mailer

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#12

“Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.”
― Langston Hughes

tags: dreams, hope, inspiration, knowledge, wisdom

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#13

“A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.”
― Emily Dickinson

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#14

“The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.”
― Henry Miller

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#15

“Sometimes thou seem'st not as thyself alone, But as the meaning of all things that are.”
― Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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#16

“The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness. ”
― Michel de Montaigne

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#17

“We went down into the silent garden. Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the hour of silence. Everything is transfixed, only the light moves.”
― Leonora Carrington

tags: dawn, light, silence

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#18

“And the rest is rust and stardust.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

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#19

“You swam in a river of chance and coincidence. You clung to the happiest accidents—the rest you let float by.”
― David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

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#20

“It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.”
― W.G. Sebald, Vertigo

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#21

“Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes,' otherwise you'll lead a very dull life.”
― Ian Fleming

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#22

“So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

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#23

“You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.”
― Amy Bloom

tags: beauty, body-image, imperfections, self-acceptance

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#24

“It is the same woman, I know, for she is always creeping, and most women do not creep by daylight.”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories

tags: creepy, woman

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#25

“Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise.”
― Ingmar Bergman

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#26

“To love and win is the best thing.
To love and lose, the next best.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray

tags: inspirational

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#27

“Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.”
― Charles Bukowski

tags: humour

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#28

“If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I would be your slave.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

tags: classics, love, obsession

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#29

“When you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”
― William Saroyan

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#30

“The weariest nights, the longest days, sooner or later must perforce come to an end.”
― Baroness Emmuska Orczy

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#31

“The truth is, honey, I've enjoyed my life. I've had a hell of a good time.”
― Ava Gardner

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#32

“For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.”
― Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene

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