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#1

“One eye sees, the other feels.”
― Paul Klee

tags: art

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#2

“Be glad. Be good. Be brave.”
― Eleanor Hodgman Porter

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#3

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

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“Funny, when you finally faced reality, it was amazing how clearly you could see things.”
― Mary Higgins Clark, Loves Music, Loves to Dance

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#7

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
― Neil Gaiman

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#8

“Any planet is 'Earth' to those that live on it.”
― Isaac Asimov, Pebble in the Sky

tags: normalcy

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#9

“I suspect the most we can hope for, and it's no small hope, is that we never give up, that we never stop giving ourselves permission to try to love and receive love.”
― Elizabeth Strout, Abide with Me

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#10

“The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”
― Abigail Van Buren

tags: character, life, wisdom

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“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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#12

“I woke up thinking a very pleasant thought. There is lots left in the world to read.”
― Nicholson Baker, The Anthologist

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#13

“These are the times that try men's souls.”
― Thomas Paine, The American Crisis

tags: adversity, american-revolution, trials

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#14

“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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#15

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

tags: expectation

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#16

“One had to build shelters. One had to make pockets and live inside them.”
― Lorrie Moore, Like Life

tags: hide, protect, shelter

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#17

“The sun doesn't just hang on one family's tree”
― Anchee Min, Empress Orchid

tags: luck

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#18

“Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.”
― Moliere

tags: inspirational, patience

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#19

“Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.”
― Susan Sontag

tags: attention, eagerness

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#20

“All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography.”
― Federico Fellini

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#21

“Quotable quotes are coins rubbed smooth by circulation.”
― Louis Menand

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#22

“Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”
― Francis Bacon

tags: hope

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#23

“One can acquire everything in solitude except character.”
― Stendhal, Five Short Novels of Stendhal

tags: community

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#24

“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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#25

“A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.”
― Gilles Deleuze, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

tags: anarchy, freedom, inspirational, lateral-thinking, philosophy, rationalism

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#26

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

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#27

“I went to collect the few personal belongings which...I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.”
― Colette

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#28

“It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.”
― W.C. Fields

tags: labels, names

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#29

“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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#30

“It's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.”
― John Guare, Landscape of the Body

tags: future, hope

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#31

“Basically, I have been compelled by curiosity.”
― Mary Leakey

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#32

“We'd get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.”
― Sinclair Lewis

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