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#1

“It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.”
― Lois Lowry

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#2

“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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#3

“To err is human, to forgive, divine.”
― Alexander Pope, An Essay On Criticism

tags: failure, forgiveness, humanity, mistakes

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#4

“People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

tags: evil, good

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#5

“For he would be thinking of love
Till the stars had run away
And the shadows eaten the moon.”
― W.B. Yeats, Selected Poems and Four Plays

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#6

“I never change, I simply become more myself.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Solstice

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#7

“Drink wine. This is life eternal. This is all that youth will give you. It is the season for wine, roses and drunken friends. Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.”
― Omar Khayyam, رباعيات خيام

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#8

“Enjoy it. Because it's happening.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

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#9

“My only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully, and yell for help if you need it.”
― Judy Blume

tags: inspirational, life

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#11

“What's the good of living if you don't try a few things?”
― Charles M. Schulz

tags: cartoonist, humor, inspirational

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#12

“Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.”
― Dave Eggers

tags: books, time

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#13

“I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

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#14

“Our mothers, aunts, grandmothers live only in representations of their lives as we, their daughters, try to re-create them.”
― Bina Shah, Before She Sleeps

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#15

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: truth

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#16

“If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.”
― George Orwell, 1984

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#17

“You will hear thunder and remember me,
And think: she wanted storms. The rim
Of the sky will be the colour of hard crimson,
And your heart, as it was then, will be on fire.”
― Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

tags: poetry

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#18

“Your voice is wild and simple.
You are untranslatable
Into any one tongue.”
― Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

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#19

“You do not know just what you've been forgiven.”
― Anna Akhmatova

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#20

“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

tags: love, poetry

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#21

“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: democracy, elite, elitism, elitist, voter, voting

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#22

“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
― William Faulkner

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#23

“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”
― William Faulkner

tags: advocacy, dissent, protest, truth, truth-telling

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#24

“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
― William Faulkner

tags: courage, determination, hope, risk

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