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    Aphra Behn
    “There is no sinner like a young saint.”
    ― Aphra Behn
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    Gertrude Stein
    “It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.”
    ― Gertrude Stein
    tags: genius, humor
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    Richard Matheson
    “That which you believe becomes your world.”
    ― Richard Matheson, What Dreams May Come
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    Jack Gilbert
    “Everyone forgets Icarus also flew.”
    ― Jack Gilbert, Refusing Heaven: Poems
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    LeVar Burton
    “For me, literacy means freedom. For the individual and for society.”
    ― LeVar Burton
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    Miranda July
    “All I ever really want to know is how other people are making it through life—where do they put their body, hour by hour, and how do they cope inside of it.”
    ― Miranda July, It Chooses You
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    Walter Mosley
    “We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky.”
    ― Walter Mosley, Blue Light
    tags: change, growth
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    John Steinbeck
    “I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's
    why.”
    ― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
    tags: friends, friendship
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    James Dickey
    “A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.”
    ― James Dickey
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  • #10
    Let our scars fall in love.
    “Let our scars fall in love.”
    ― Galway Kinnell
    tags: poetry
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  • #11
    Colette
    “You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”
    ― Colette
    tags: enthusiasm, foolishness, silliness, wisdom
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    Edith Wharton
    “There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it.”
    ― Edith Wharton
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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
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
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  • #18
    If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use
    “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: books, reading
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    Oscar Wilde
    “It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: books, reading
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
    tags: truth
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: books, morality, reading
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    Oscar Wilde
    “You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: education, fashion
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories
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    Oscar Wilde
    “A good friend will always stab you in the front.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: friends-betrayal
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: imagination, life, money
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  • #27
    Oscar Wilde
    “Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: love, ordinary, people
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  • #28
    Oscar Wilde
    “Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: saint-sinner
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  • #29
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am not young enough to know everything.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: age
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  • #30
    Oscar Wilde
    “Hearts are made to be broken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
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