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#1

“Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

tags: love

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#2

“It's a strange courage
you give me ancient star:
Shine alone in the sunrise
toward which you lend no part!”
― William Carlos Williams

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#3

“Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you are two steps ahead.”
― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

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#4

“Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
― Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel

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#5

“None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

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#6

“A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.”
― Caroline Gordon

tags: books, imagination, writing

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#7

“The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.”
― Katherine Mansfield

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#8

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

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#9

“What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.”
― Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook

tags: inspirational

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#10

“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
― Anne Tyler

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#11

“By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

tags: foreshadowing, macbeth

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#12

“Slowly I learnt the ways of humans: how to ruin, how to hate, how to debase, how to humiliate. And at the feet of my Master I learnt the highest of human skills, the skill no other creature owns: I finally learnt how to lie.”
― Nick Dear, Frankenstein, Based on the Novel by Mary Shelley

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#13

“Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving. ”
― Alan Paton

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#14

“My course is set for an uncharted sea.”
― Dante Alighieri

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#15

“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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#16

“I live for coincidences. They briefly give to me the illusion or the hope that there's a pattern to my life, and if there's a pattern, then maybe I'm moving toward some kind of destiny where it's all explained.”
― Jonathan Ames, My Less Than Secret Life: A Diary, Fiction, Essays

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#17

“I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.”
― Jimmy Dean

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#18

“When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

tags: freedom, identity, independence, self-awareness, self-discovery

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#19

“Nothing is unreal as long as you can imagine like a crow”
― Munia Khan

tags: as-long-as, crow, dark, darkness, imagination, imagine, unreal

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#20

“The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.”
― Edward Gibbon

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#21

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
― Charles M. Schulz

tags: chocolate, food, humor

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#22

“Little solace comes
to those who grieve
when thoughts keep drifting
as walls keep shifting
and this great blue world of ours
seems a house of leaves

moments before the wind.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

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#23

“If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up.”
― Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

tags: love, music

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#24

“There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. ”
― George Carlin

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