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“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”
― Margaret Fuller

“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

“We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

“We are all worthy of one another.”
― Edward P. Jones, The Known World

“Terror made me cruel . . .”
― Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

“That luminous part of you that exists beyond personality–your soul, if you will–is as bright and shining as any that has ever been....Clear away everything that keeps you separate from this secret luminous place. Believe it exists, come to know it better, nurture it, share its fruits tirelessly.”
― George Saunders

“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
― Pablo Neruda, Love: Ten Poems

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