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    Anton Chekhov
    “And what does it mean -- dying? Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and only the five we know are lost at death, while the other ninety-five remain alive.”
    ― Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard
    tags: death, life
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    Janet Fitch
    “The phoenix must burn to emerge.”
    ― Janet Fitch, White Oleander
    tags: death, failure, rebirth
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    “When she transformed into a butterfly, the caterpillars spoke not of her beauty, but of her weirdness. They wanted her to change back into what she always had been. But she had wings.”
    ― Dean Jackson
    tags: butterfly, change, transformation, woman
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    Alberto Manguel
    “Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.”
    ― Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night
    tags: book, books, immortality, reader, reading, rebirth
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    Michael Chabon
    “He has the memory of a convict, the balls of a fireman, and the eyesight of a housebreaker. When there is crime to fight, Landsman tears around Sitka like a man with his pant leg caught on a rocket. It's like there's a film score playing behind him, heavy on the castanets. The problem comes in the hours when he isn't working, when his thoughts start blowing out the open window of his brain like pages from the blotter. Sometimes it takes a heavy paperweight to pin them down.”
    ― Michael Chabon, The Yiddish Policemen's Union
    tags: fiction, hollywood, humor, jewish, satire
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    Michael Chabon
    “Every generation loses the Messiah it has failed to deserve.”
    ― Michael Chabon, The Yiddish Policemen's Union
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    Michael Chabon
    “A mere redrawing of borders, a change in governments, those things can never faze a Jewess with a good supply of hand wipes in her bag.”
    ― Michael Chabon, The Yiddish Policemen's Union
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    Michael Chabon
    “The day you ever have that much control over my behavior, it will be because somebody's asking you, should she get the pine box or a plain white shroud?”
    ― Michael Chabon, The Yiddish Policemen's Union
    tags: self-determination, snark
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    Zhuangzi
    “The fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you've gotten the fish you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit. Once you've gotten the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words exist because of meaning. Once you've gotten the meaning, you can forget the words. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can talk with him?”
    ― Zhuangzi, Chuang Tsu: Inner Chapters
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    Frank Herbert
    “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: bene-gesserit, fear, litany-against-fear, motivational, scifi
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    T.E. Lawrence
    “All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake up in the day to find it was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.”
    ― T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph
    tags: dreamers, dreaming, dreams, open-eyes, open-mind
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    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Writers are liars my dear, surely you know that by now?”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 3: Dream Country
    tags: sandman
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    Neil Gaiman
    “The only reason people die, is because EVERYONE does it. You all just go along with it.
    It's RUBBISH, death. It's STUPID. I don't want nothing to do with it.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 2: The Doll's House
    tags: hob-gadling
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  • #17
    I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn
    “I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-marilyn-monroe
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    George Orwell
    “The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: books, reading
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    George Orwell
    “What can you do, thought Winston, against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.”
    ― H. P. Lovecraft
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  • #21
    Claude Cahun
    “Under this mask, another mask. I will never be finished removing all these faces.”
    ― Claude Cahun
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    Baruch Spinoza
    “No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.”
    ― Spinoza
    tags: disputes
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  • #23
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: food, happiness
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    Patrick Rothfuss
    “There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear
    tags: fear, name-of-the-wind, patrick-rothfuss, wisdom
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  • #26
    Neil Gaiman
    “Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
    tags: writing
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  • #27
    Sophie Kinsella
    “There’s no such thing as ruining your life. Life’s a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.”
    ― Sophie Kinsella, The Undomestic Goddess
    tags: life, resilience, ruins, truth
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  • #28
    Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
    “Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.”
    ― Jean Paul
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