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    Matthew Pearl
    “ 'Till America has learned to love literature not as an amusement, not as a mere doggerel to memorize in a college room, but for its humanizing and ennobling energy, my dear reverend president, she will not have succeeded in that high sense which alone makes a nation out of a people. That which raises it from a dead name to a living power.' ”
    ― Matthew Pearl, The Dante Club
    tags: inspirational
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    Cornelia Funke
    “A longing for books [is] nothing compared with what you [can] feel for human beings. The books [tell] you about that feeling. The books [speak] of love, and it [is] wonderful to listen to them, but they [are] no substitute for love itself.”
    ― Cornelia Funke, Inkdeath
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    Joseph Conrad
    “No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one’s existence--that which makes its truth, its meaning--its subtle and penetrating essence. It is impossible. We live, as we dream--alone.”
    ― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
    tags: dream, loneliness, subjective-experience
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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “Unhappy man! Do you share my maddness? Have you drunk also of the intoxicating draught? Hear me; let me reveal my tale, and you will dash the cup from your lips!”
    ― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
    tags: absurd, bad-reviews, boring, complain, literary-criticism, lotr, opinions, reviews, tolkien
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    Matthew Pearl
    “ 'Do not ask what brings Dante to man but what brings man to Dante-to personally enter his sphere, though it is forever severe and unforgiving.' ”
    ― Matthew Pearl, The Dante Club
    tags: inspirational, interesting
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    Matthew Pearl
    “ 'Yes, we rather condemn people for eternity without the courtesy of informing them.' ”
    ― Matthew Pearl, The Dante Club
    tags: humor-inspirational, inspirational
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    Matthew Pearl
    “ 'Pity without rigor would be cowardly egotism, mere sentimentality.' ”
    ― Matthew Pearl, The Dante Club
    tags: inspirational-quotes
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    Matthew Pearl
    “He was outwardly calm but inwardly bleeding to death.”
    ― Matthew Pearl, The Dante Club
    tags: poetic, tragic
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    Socrates
    “There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.”
    ― Socrates
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    Melissa de la Cruz
    “It was maddening how your best friend could twist the knobs inside of you so much that it hurt.”
    ― Melissa de la Cruz, Blue Bloods
    tags: friendship, interesting, pain
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day; or the agonies which are have their origins in ecstasies which might have been. ”
    ― edgar allan poe
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “How is it that from beauty I have derived a type of unloveliness?—from the covenant of peace a simile of sorrow? But as, in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact, out of joy is sorrow born.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, Berenice
    tags: beauty, happiness, sorrow
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    John Green
    “As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: love
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    Henry Miller
    “A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.”
    ― Henry Miller, The Books in My Life
    tags: books, power
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    Jane Austen
    “In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride And Prejudice
    tags: love, mr-darcy
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  • #17
    “Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.”
    ― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: age, fairytales, growing-up
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    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
    tags: love
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    Nadezhda Mandelstam
    “I decided it is better to scream. Silence is the real crime against humanity.”
    ― Nadezhda Mandelstam, Hope Against Hope
    tags: silence, voice
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    John Irving
    “You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.”
    ― John Irving, The Hotel New Hampshire
    tags: humor, life-lessons, wrestling
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    Richard Wright
    “Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books...”
    ― Richard Wright, Black Boy
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    Lemony Snicket
    “Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
    ― Lemony Snicket
    tags: humor-wicked-reading
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    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
    ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    tags: coldness, depression, happiness, life, sad, sadness, sorrow
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    Victor Hugo
    “He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
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    Books. Cats. Life is Good.
    “Books. Cats. Life is Good.”
    ― Edward Gorey
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    Dylan Thomas
    “Do not go gentle into that good night.
    Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
    ― Dylan Thomas, In Country Sleep, and Other Poems
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    Nikos Kazantzakis
    “I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.”
    ― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek
    tags: happiness, life, sea
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    Dave Eggers
    “Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.”
    ― Dave Eggers
    tags: books, time
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    Charles M. Schulz
    “What's the good of living if you don't try a few things?”
    ― Charles M. Schulz
    tags: cartoonist, humor, inspirational
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