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    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    “Thus it is that no cruelty whatsoever passes by without impact. Thus it is that we always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.”
    ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
    tags: cruelty, impact
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    Philip Levine
    “Some things you know all your life. They are so simple and true they must be said without elegance, meter and rhyme...they must be naked and alone, they must stand for themselves.”
    ― Philip Levine
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    Edith Wharton
    “There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it.”
    ― Edith Wharton
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    Alice Walker
    “No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
    ― Alice Walker
    tags: acceptance, friendship
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    Steve Jobs
    “Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”
    ― Steve Jobs
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”
    ― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
    tags: existence, truth
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    Kenneth Grahame
    “Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.”
    ― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
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    Stephen Vincent Benét
    “There is a wilderness we walk alone
    However well-companioned”
    ― Stephen Vincent Benét, Western Star
    tags: life-s-journey, poetry-quotes, solitude
    1466 likes

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    Lawrence Ferlinghetti
    “Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.”
    ― Lawrence Ferlinghetti
    tags: lyricism, poetry
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    Ai Qing
    “Without movement there is no Life...We should use our energy to the fullest.”
    ― Ai Qing
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: hate, love
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Charles Baudelaire
    “A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.”
    ― Charles Baudelaire
    tags: books, garden, reading
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    Geoffrey Chaucer
    “Patience is a conquering virtue.”
    ― Geoffrey Chaucer
    tags: canterbury-tales, chaucer, franklin-s-tale, patience
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    Daniel Defoe
    “The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.”
    ― Daniel Defoe
    tags: diamond, soul
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    Orhan Pamuk
    “Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.”
    ― Orhan Pamuk, Snow
    tags: happiness, love
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    I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.
    “I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
    tags: truth
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    George Eliot
    “Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.”
    ― George Eliot, Impressions of Theophrastus Such
    tags: loquacity, remaining-silent, silence
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    John W. Campbell Jr.
    “History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, 'Can't you remember anything I told you?' and lets fly with a club.”
    ― John W. Campbell Jr.
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    Jennifer Donnelly
    “Meet me where the sky touches the sea. Wait for me where the world begins.”
    ― Jennifer Donnelly
    tags: jennifer-donnelly, the-tea-rose, the-winter-rose
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    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”
    ― Robert Louis Stevenson
    tags: life
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    Marie Lu
    “Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything's possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time.”
    ― Marie Lu, Legend
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    Raymond Chandler
    “To say goodbye is to die a little.”
    ― Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye
    tags: change, life, parting, romantics
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    Chang-rae Lee
    “It is 'where we are' that should make all the difference, whether we believe we belong there or not.”
    ― Chang-rae Lee, On Such a Full Sea
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    Guy de Maupassant
    “Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.”
    ― Guy de Maupassant
    tags: memory
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke
    tags: extraterrestrials, humor, intelligent-life, life, science, universe
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    Lisa Kleypas
    “A long time ago I learned not to explain things to people. It misleads them into thinking they're entitled to know everything I do. —[Sara]”
    ― Lisa Kleypas, Dreaming of You
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    R.A. Salvatore
    “Only when we admit to our failures and recognize our weaknesses can we rise above them.”
    ― R.A. Salvatore, Passage to Dawn
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