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  • #1
    Orhan Pamuk
    “La razón fundamental de mi soledad es que ni siquiera yo sé de qué historia formo parte.”
    ― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red
    tags: historia, soledad
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    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: charles-bayard-mitchell
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  • #3
    I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
    “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
    ― Jorge Luis Borges
    tags: books, library
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    Haruki Murakami
    “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
    tags: books, thought
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  • #5
    J.K. Rowling
    “The world isn’t split into good people and Death Eaters.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
    tags: black, choices, harry-potter, inside-us, light, sirius, sirius-black
    1968 likes

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  • #6
    Ray Bradbury
    “Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I'm one of them.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
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    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “Do you know the best thing about broken hearts? They can only really break once the rest is just scratches.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game
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  • #8
    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “Few things leave a deeper mark on the reader, than the first book that finds its way to his heart.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
    tags: reading
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  • #9
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
    tags: happiness, pain, peace, scar, sweetness
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  • #10
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
    tags: life, love
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  • #11
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
    tags: loss
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  • #12
    David Nicholls
    “You can live your whole life not realizing that what you're looking for is right in front of you.”
    ― David Nicholls, One Day
    tags: life, love
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  • #13
    Alan Moore
    “People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.”
    ― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta
    tags: democracy, equality, government, misattributed
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  • #14
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “You’re just the romantic age,” she continued- “fifty. Twenty-five is too worldly wise; thirty is apt to be pale from overwork; forty is the age of long stories that take a whole cigar to tell; sixty is- oh, sixty is too near seventy; but fifty is the mellow age. I love fifty.” - Hildegarde”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
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  • #15
    Charlotte Brontë
    “The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë
    tags: companionship, loneliness, marriage, single, spinsterhood
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  • #16
    “What you read in the newspapers, hear on the radio and see on television, is hardly even the truth as seen by experts; it is the wishful thinking of journalists, seen through filters of prejudice and ignorance.”
    ― Hans Eysenck, Intelligence: A New Look
    tags: journalism
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  • #17
    John Milton
    “The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
    ― John Milton, Paradise Lost
    tags: inspirational, religion
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  • #18
    C.G. Jung
    “Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
    tags: darkness-self-knowledge, social
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  • #19
    C.G. Jung
    “Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
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    C.G. Jung
    “As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections
    tags: childhood, psychology
    1667 likes

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  • #21
    J.D. Salinger
    “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing
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    Patrick Rothfuss
    “There are times when the mind is dealt such a blow it hides itself in insanity. While this may not seem beneficial, it is. There are times when reality is nothing but pain, and to escape that pain the mind must leave reality behind.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
    tags: fantasy, insanity, madness, normal, reality, rothfuss
    546 likes

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  • #23
    J.K. Rowling
    “It is a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: dread, hungarian-horntail, panic, relativity
    1320 likes

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  • #24
    J.K. Rowling
    “Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: pain
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  • #25
    J.K. Rowling
    “We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: dumbledore, strength, unity
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  • #26
    J.K. Rowling
    “It is my belief... that the truth is generally preferable to lies.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: truth-lies
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  • #27
    J.K. Rowling
    “Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: acceptance, inspiration, inspirational, smart, understanding, wise
    4144 likes

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  • #28
    Stephen King
    “I think that real friendship always makes us feel such sweet gratitude, because the world almost always seems like a very hard desert, and the flowers that grow there seem to grow against such high odds.”
    ― Stephen King, The Eyes of the Dragon
    tags: 1987, friendship, gratitude, harsh-world
    76 likes



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