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#1

“I want to understand you,
I study your obscure language.”
― Alexander Pushkin

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#2

“And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death.”
― Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

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#3

“I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

tags: dreams, finality, love, soul

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#4

“Let the wild rumpus start!”
― Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are

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#5

“We're all in this game together.”
― William Styron

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#6

“A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow.”
― Djuna Barnes

tags: jungism, personhood, shadow-self

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#7

“You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.”
― Amy Bloom

tags: beauty, body-image, imperfections, self-acceptance

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#8

“Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.”
― Pearl S. Buck

tags: contentment

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#9

“In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.”
― Thurgood Marshall

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#10

“The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”
― Anna Quindlen

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#11

“The more the heart is nourished with happiness, the more it is insatiable.”
― Gabrielle Roy

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#12

“Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise.”
― Ingmar Bergman

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#13

“To love and win is the best thing.
To love and lose, the next best.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray

tags: inspirational

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#14

“The main thing you got to remember is that everything in the world is a hustle.”
― Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

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#15

“You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

tags: friendship, inspirational, pooh, winnie

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#16

“When you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”
― William Saroyan

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#17

“There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.”
― Ray Bradbury

tags: censorship

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#18

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
― Frederick Douglass

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#19

“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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#20

“We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

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#21

“There was no harm in taking aim, even if the target was a dream.”
― John Knowles, A Separate Peace

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#22

“Every life has death and every light has shadow. Be content to stand in the light and let the shadow fall where it will.”
― Mary Stewart, The Hollow Hills

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#23

“Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.”
― Aisha Tyler

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#24

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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#25

“A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.”
― Stephen King

tags: life-experience, writing, writing-craft

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#26

“The weariest nights, the longest days, sooner or later must perforce come to an end.”
― Baroness Emmuska Orczy

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#27

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: bilbo, journey, lost, quest, travel, wander

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#28

“If I told you I’ve worked hard to get where I’m at, I’d be lying, because I have no idea where I am right now.”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale

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#29

“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

tags: activism, determination, enterprise, success

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#30

“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”
― Robert F. Kennedy

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