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    Michel Onfray
    “You cannot kill a breeze, a wind, a fragrance; you cannot kill a dream or an ambition.”
    ― Michel Onfray
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    Stephenie Meyer
    “I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.”
    ― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
    tags: bella-swan, dreams, edward, hope, night, stars
    11060 likes

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    James Burke
    “When you read a book, you hold another's mind in your hands.”
    ― James Burke
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    Jean Genet
    “A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.”
    ― Jean Genet
    tags: darkness, dreams, time
    1174 likes

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    Mirza Tahir Ahmad
    “Swords can win territories but not hearts, forces can bend heads but not minds.”
    ― Mirza Tahir Ahmad
    tags: ahmadiyya, inspirational
    1410 likes

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    Tamora Pierce
    “Every now and then I like to do as I'm told, just to confuse people.”
    ― Tamora Pierce, Melting Stones
    tags: humor, obedience
    3537 likes

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    Willa Cather
    “The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one’s own.”
    ― Willa Cather
    1684 likes

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    James Joyce
    “Shut your eyes and see.”
    ― James Joyce
    2815 likes

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    Philippe Ariès
    “A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.”
    ― Philippe Ariès
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    Agatha Christie
    “Very few of us are what we seem.”
    ― Agatha Christie, The Man in the Mist
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    Adeline Yen Mah
    “Please believe that one single positive dream is more important than a thousand negative realities.”
    ― Adeline Yen Mah, Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter
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    Charlaine Harris
    “Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
    ― Charlaine Harris
    tags: books-vacation
    8564 likes

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    Voltaire
    “Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: answers, man, questions, thinking
    4618 likes

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    Shmuley Boteach
    “There is greatness in doing something you hate for the sake of someone you love.”
    ― Shmuley Boteach
    tags: relationships
    3379 likes

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    Margaret Atwood
    “I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.”
    ― Margaret Atwood
    tags: love, obsession, sleep
    4171 likes

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    Shelby Foote
    “I abhor the idea of a perfect world. It would bore me to tears.”
    ― Shelby Foote
    tags: boredom, perfection, utopia
    1115 likes

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    J.G. Ballard
    “Perhaps the future belongs to magic, and it's we women who control magic.”
    ― J. G. Ballard, Rushing to Paradise
    tags: ballardian
    1125 likes

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    Tracy Kidder
    “... "You may not see the ocean, but right now we are in the middle of the ocean, and we have to keep swimming.”
    ― Tracy Kidder, Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness
    tags: inspirational-attitude
    1113 likes

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    Shirley Graham du Bois
    “We are a race of artists. What are we doing about it?”
    ― Shirley Graham Du Bois
    tags: artists
    596 likes

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    Neil Gaiman
    “Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
    tags: writing
    4231 likes

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    Zig Ziglar
    “Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.”
    ― Zig Ziglar
    tags: attention, direction, focus, inspirational, motivational
    3316 likes

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    Vandana Shiva
    “You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you.”
    ― Vandana Shiva
    1895 likes

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    Natalie Angier
    “We are made of stardust; why not take a few moments to look up at the family album?”
    ― Natalie Angier, The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science
    1435 likes

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    W.E.B. Du Bois
    “Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.”
    ― W.E.B. DuBois
    2566 likes

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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
    176053 likes

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    Lois Lowry
    “Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none”
    ― Lois Lowry, Gathering Blue
    3858 likes

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  • #27
    Voltaire
    “Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies."
    (Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)”
    ― Voltaire
    1134 likes

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  • #28
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
    135102 likes



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