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    Joanne Harris
    “Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.”
    ― Joanne Harris, Chocolat
    tags: alive, bittersweet, chocolate, happiness, heart, simplicity, torture
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    Емилиян Станев
    “Понякога постигаме в себе си тихо щастие, като се заглеждамЕ в птиците, цветята и въобще в природата, и ни се струва, че навлизаме в един чудесен свят, някаква еманация на зримата реалност, в която е скрит смисълът на света и на човека.”
    ― Емилиян Станев
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    Димитър Талев
    “Такава една чудна и толкова хубава бъркотия е животът!”
    ― Димитър Талев, Железният светилник
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    Allen Saunders
    “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
    ― Allen Saunders
    tags: fate, life, misattributed-john-lennon, planning, plans
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    Douglas Adams
    “The story so far:
    In the beginning the Universe was created.
    This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
    tags: humor, scifi
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time
    tags: humor
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    Woody Allen
    “I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer.”
    ― Woody Allen
    tags: humor, life, sex
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    Markus Herz
    “Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.”
    ― Markus Herz
    tags: books, health, humor, misattributed-mark-twain, misprints
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    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
    ― Robert Louis Stevenson
    tags: day, inspirational, judge, plant, reap, seed, seeds, sow
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Winter is coming.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: forcasting, mottos, winter
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    Herman Melville
    “We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.”
    ― Herman Melville
    tags: connection
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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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    Chris Rock
    “You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named "Bush", "Dick", and "Colin." Need I say more?”
    ― Chris Rock
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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  • #15
    Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.
    “Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
    ― Roald Dahl
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  • #16
    Ayn Rand
    “[Dean] “My dear fellow, who will let you?”

    [Roark] “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
    ― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
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  • #17
    Evelyn Waugh
    “Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.”
    ― Evelyn Waugh
    tags: punctuality
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  • #18
    Lao Tzu
    “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: travel
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  • #19
    “There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”
    ― Linda Grayson
    tags: chocolate, friendship
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?'
    'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: bravery, courage, fear
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    Ray Bradbury
    “There was her face, like a summer peach, beautiful and warm, and the light of the candles reflected in her dark eyes. [He] held his breath. The entire world waited and held its breath.”
    ― Ray Bradbury
    tags: love, women
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    Douglas Adams
    “A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”
    ― Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless
    tags: design, foolproof, ingenuity
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  • #23
    Terry Pratchett
    “Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man
    tags: books, humor
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  • #24
    Terry Pratchett
    “There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
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    W. Somerset Maugham
    “There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”
    ― W. Somerset Maugham
    tags: writing
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    Ray Bradbury
    “I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
    tags: humour, individuality, science-fiction
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  • #27
    Plato
    “Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”
    ― Plato
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
    tags: love
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    Neil Gaiman
    “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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  • #30
    Algernon Charles Swinburne
    “Behold, when thy face is made bare, he that loved thee shall hate;
    Thy face shall be no more fair at the fall of thy fate
    For thy life shall fall as a leaf and be shed as the rain;
    And the veil of thine head shall be grief, and the crown shall be pain.”
    ― Algernon Charles Swinburne
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