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#1

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
― James Baldwin

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#2

“Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening, and Selected Stories

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#3

“Nothing we see or hear is perfect. But right there in the imperfection is perfect reality.”
― Shunryu Suzuki

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#4

“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: inspirational-humor

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#5

“enjoy your problems”
― shunryu suzuki

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#6

“To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one. ”
― Colette

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#7

“My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.”
― Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

tags: afternoon, schedule, tea, toast

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#8

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

tags: books, thought

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#9

“There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go--if there are no doors or windows--he walks through a wall.”
― Bernard Malamud

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#10

“There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.”
― Guy de Maupassant, The Complete Short Stories of de Maupassant

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#11

“Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.”
― John Lennon

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#12

“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

tags: memories

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#13

“Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.”
― Haruki Marukami

tags: expectation

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#14

“Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.”
― Walker Evans

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#15

“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”
― John Lennon

tags: inspirational, life

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#16

“Read, read, read. That's all I can say.”
― Carolyn Keene, The Secret of the Old Clock

tags: nancy-drew

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#17

“I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.”
― Margaret Atwood

tags: love, obsession, sleep

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#18

“It was no great surprise that the world felt as if it were in chains since they actually trawled the ocean floor and tied us up in easy knots.”
― Colum McCann, Twist

tags: community, healing, knots, ocean, quotes, repair, truth, wisdom

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#19

“The most casual things can, after all, twist our tired hearts.”
― Colum McCann, Twist

tags: healing, love, memory, repair, romance, twist

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#20

“Stupid to think that our wine will never turn.”
― Colum McCann, Twist

tags: aging, community, healing, quotes, repair, time, wine

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