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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
    177091 likes

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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
    127115 likes

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  • #3
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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  • #4
    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
    119061 likes

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  • #5
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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  • #6
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
    88101 likes

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  • #7
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality
    69681 likes

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  • #8
    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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  • #9
    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
    81812 likes

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  • #10
    J.K. Rowling
    “Imperfect understanding is often more dangerous than ignorance.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
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  • #11
    Jacqueline Susann
    “I've got a library copy of Gone with the Wind, a quart of milk and all these cookies. Wow! What an orgy!”
    ― Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls
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  • #12
    Rick Riordan
    “If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
    tags: inspirational, life, meaning
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    John Green
    “Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”
    ― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
    tags: books, reading
    16495 likes

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  • #14
    John Green
    “What a slut time is. She screws everybody.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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  • #15
    John Green
    “The marks humans leave are too often scars.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: humans, pain, scars
    18079 likes

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  • #16
    John Green
    “What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?”
    ― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
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  • #17
    Deva Fagan
    “Perhaps I had started to believe again in magic, or perhaps in love. Or perhaps they were the same thing.”
    ― Deva Fagan, Fortune's Folly
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    John Green
    “You like someone who can't like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot. ”
    ― John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
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    David Levithan
    “I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me.”
    ― David Levithan, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
    tags: homicide, suicide
    3524 likes

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    John Green
    “Caring doesn't sometimes lead to misery. It always does.”
    ― John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
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  • #21
    David Levithan
    “this is why we call people exes, I guess - because the paths that cross in the middle end up separating at the end. it's too easy to see an X as a cross-out. it's not, because there's no way to cross out something like that. the X is a diagram of two paths.”
    ― David Levithan, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
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    John Green
    “It's hard to believe in coincidence, but it's even harder to believe in anything else.”
    ― John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
    tags: belief, chance, chaos, coincidence
    879 likes

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    John Green
    “Being in a relationship, that's something you choose. Being friends, that's just something you are. [But] I do pick you. We've been friends too long to pick, but if we could pick, I'd pick you.”
    ― John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
    tags: friendship
    671 likes

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  • #24
    John Green
    “Dear Jane,

    Just so you know: e. e. cummings cheated on both of his wives. With prostitutes.

    Yours,
    Will Grayson”
    ― John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
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    John Green
    “All sorts of yayness floods my brain. Love is such a drug.”
    ― John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
    tags: ecstasy, infatuation
    340 likes

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  • #26
    John Green
    “I have to tell you man, that my stalker meter is kind of registering in the red zone right now.”
    ― John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
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  • #27
    John Green
    “Being in a relationship, that's something you choose. Being friends, that's something you just are.”
    ― John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
    tags: john-green, tiny-cooper, will-grayson
    223 likes

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    John Green
    “But it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he has Cassius note, ‘The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: tfios, the-fault-in-our-stars
    3278 likes

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  • #29
    Stephanie Perkins
    “For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.”
    ― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss
    tags: home, love, relationships, touching
    7280 likes

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  • #30
    Stephanie Perkins
    “The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.”
    ― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss
    tags: acceptance, life
    3124 likes



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