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    Cassandra Clare
    “Fate is never fair. You are caught in a current much stronger than you are; struggle against it and you'll drown not just yourself but those who try to save you. Swim with it. and you'll survive”
    ― Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes
    tags: cassandra-clare, fate, valentine
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    Jeanette Winterson
    “I knew it like destiny, and at the same time, I knew it as choice.”
    ― Jeanette Winterson, Lighthousekeeping
    tags: choice, destiny, fate, life
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    Huey P. Newton
    “The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.”
    ― Huey P. Newton
    tags: anarchy, fate, politics, resignation, revolution, revolutionaries, war
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    Kevin Brockmeier
    “Sometimes you imagine that everything could have been different for you, that if only you had gone right one day when you chose to go left, you would be living a life you could never have anticipated. But at other times you think there was no other way forward--that you were always bound to end up exactly where you have.”
    ― Kevin Brockmeier, The View from the Seventh Layer
    tags: destiny, fate, life, predetermination
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “The prince says that the world will be saved by beauty! And I maintain that the reason he has such playful ideas is that he is in love.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Beauty will save the world.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot
    tags: beauty
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “It wasn't the New World that mattered... Columbus died almost without seeing it; and not really knowing what he had discovered. It's life that matters, nothing but life — the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Compassion was the most important, perhaps the sole law of human existence.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
    tags: humanity, individuals, love, mankind
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: change, tolstoy
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: perfection
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata
    tags: beauty, delusion, goodness, lies, self-deception, wisdom
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Essays, Letters and Miscellanies
    tags: advice-for-writers, awareness, life
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession
    tags: conscience, majority, right-and-wrong, truth, wrong
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “All the girls in the world were divided into two classes: one class included all the girls in the world except her, and they had all the usual human feelings and were very ordinary girls; while the other class -herself alone- had no weaknesses and was superior to all humanity.”
    ― Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: classic
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: closeness, love, soul-mate
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
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    Dr. Seuss
    “Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    J.K. Rowling
    “It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: albus-dumbledore, courage, friends
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    Maya Angelou
    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
    ― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing
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    J.K. Rowling
    “It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default.”
    ― J.K. Rowling
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    Oscar Wilde
    “It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: books, reading
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    Neil Gaiman
    “I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
    tags: dying, facts, fame, knowing, love, poverty, reality, school, teach, wealth
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    Donna Tartt
    “A great sorrow, and one that I am only beginning to understand: we don’t get to choose our own hearts. We can’t make ourselves want what’s good for us or what’s good for other people. We don’t get to choose the people we are.”
    ― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch
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