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“O, there is lovely to feel a book, a good book, firm in the hand, for its fatness holds rich promise, and you are hot inside to think of good hours to come.”
― Richard Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley

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“Living is a horizontal fall.”
― Jean Cocteau, Opium: The Illustrated Diary of His Cure

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“Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve.”
― Carol Shields, The Republic of Love

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#4

“A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.”
― Jean de La Fontaine, Fables

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#5

“Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.”
― Iris Murdoch, Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature

tags: love, realization

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#6

“Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: alcohol, drinking

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#7

“A line is a fuse
that's lit.
The line smolders,
the rhyme explodes—
and by a stanza
a city
is blown to bits.”
― Vladimir Mayakovsky

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#8

“There's no one thing that's true. It's all true.”
― Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

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#9

“A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.”
― Herman Melville, Pierre; or, The Ambiguities

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#10

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
― James Baldwin

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#11

“Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.”
― Pablo Picasso

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#12

“Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.”
― Mary Anne Radmacher

tags: courage, inspirational, perseverance

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#13

“Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.”
― Anaïs Nin, Incest: From "A Journal of Love": The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1932-1934

tags: ecstasy, escape, freedom, intoxication, reality

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#14

“If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.”
― Francois Mauriac

tags: books, literacy, reading

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#15

“Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.”
― Cesare Pavese, Il mestiere di vivere: Diario 1935-1950

tags: life, luxury

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#16

“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

“Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.”
― Alan Watts

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#18

“Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.”
― Edith Wharton, Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verses

tags: carpe-diem, day, daytime, window

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#19

“No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

tags: happiness

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#20

“The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.”
― Albert Einstein

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#21

“It was one of those humid days when the atmosphere gets confused. Sitting on the porch, you could feel it: the air wishing it was water.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

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#22

“But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”
― Daphne du Maurier

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#23

“I have never been convinced there's anything inherently wrong in having fun. ”
― George Plimpton

tags: living

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#24

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

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#25

“The minute you become conscious that you are doing good, that's the minute you have to stop because from then on it's wrong.”
― Paula Fox

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#26

“Laugh all you want and cry all you want and whistle at pretty men in the street and to hell with anybody who thinks you're a damned fool!”
― Armistead Maupin, More Tales of the City

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#27

“Make me immortal with a kiss.”
― Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus and Other Plays

tags: kiss

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#28

“I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

tags: journalist, truth

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#29

“The farther you go...the harder it is to return. The world has many edges and it's easy to fall off.”
― Anderson Cooper, Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival

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#30

“I am large, I contain multitudes”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

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