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    Thomas Paine
    “The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”
    ― Thomas Paine, A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal on the Affairs of North America
    tags: education, experience, wisdom
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    रांगेय राघव
    “The tears of those who cry for others shine more than the diamonds.”
    ― Rangeya Raghav
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    Patricia Highsmith
    “My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.”
    ― Patricia Highsmith
    tags: conversations, distractions, imagination, quiet, solitude
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    Kenzaburō Ōe
    “The dead can survive as part of the lives of those that still live.”
    ― Kenzaburō Ōe, Hiroshima Notes
    tags: death
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    Heather Dixon Wallwork
    “Down with tyranny!' Bramble cried. 'Aristocracy! Autocracy! Monocracy! Other ocracy things! You are outnumbered, sir! Surrender!”
    ― Heather Dixon, Entwined
    tags: humor
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    Heather Dixon Wallwork
    “He's around the twist,' said Azalea. 'Breaking all the windows? He's mad.'
    'Ah, no,' said the King. 'It's only madness if you actually do it. If you want to break all the windows in the house and drown yourself in a bucket but don't actually do it, well, that's love.”
    ― Heather Dixon, Entwined
    tags: humor, love
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    Judy Blume
    “Our finger prints don't fade from the lives we touch.”
    ― judy blume
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    Clifford Irving
    “And also don’t forget, the reason opportunity is often missed is that it usually comes disguised as hard work.”
    ― Clifford Irving, Trial
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    Matt Groening
    “I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.”
    ― Matt Groening
    tags: family, humor, language, satire, simpsons, social-commentary
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
    tags: fair, life
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    Lois Lowry
    “Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none”
    ― Lois Lowry, Gathering Blue
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    Erica Jong
    “I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back....”
    ― Erica Jong
    tags: change, courage, fear, life
    2385 likes

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    Octavio Paz
    “Deserve your dream.”
    ― octavio paz
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    Laini Taylor
    “Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love.

    It did not end well.”
    ― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone
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    Laini Taylor
    “Have you ever asked yourself, do monsters make war, or does war make monsters?”
    ― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone
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    Laini Taylor
    “Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.”
    ― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone
    tags: hope, hopelessness, magic
    3109 likes

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    Laini Taylor
    “It's not like there's a law against flying."

    "Yes there is. The law of gravity.”
    ― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone
    tags: humor
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    Laini Taylor
    “It is a condition of monsters that they do not perceive themselves as such. The dragon, you know, hunkered in the village devouring maidens, heard the townsfolk cry 'Monster!' and looked behind him.”
    ― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone
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    Laini Taylor
    “Love is a luxury."
    "No. Love is an element."
    An element. Like air to breathe, earth to stand on.”
    ― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone
    tags: akiva, karou, love, romance
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    Giacomo Casanova
    “Be the flame, not the moth.”
    ― Giacomo Casanova
    tags: passion, self-destruction
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    Vince Flynn
    “It was war, and in war the truth was almost always the first casualty.”
    ― Vince Flynn, Executive Power
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    Corrie ten Boom
    “Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.”
    ― Corrie Ten Boom
    tags: forgiveness, hiding-place
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    Annie Dillard
    “She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.”
    ― Annie Dillard, The Living
    tags: books, literature, reading, words
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    José Ortega y Gasset
    “Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are.”
    ― José Ortega y Gasset
    tags: interests, personality, values
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    George Carlin
    “May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: benediction, evil, goodwill, humor, inspirational, wishes
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    Eoin Colfer
    “I never tell anyone exactly how clever I am. They would be too scared.”
    ― Eoin Colfer, The Eternity Code
    tags: mysterious
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.”
    ― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
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    André Brink
    “My library was -- all libraries are -- a place of ultimate refuge, a wild and sacred space where meanings are manageable precisely because they aren't binding; and where illusion is comfortingly real.”
    ― André Brink
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    John Masefield
    “The days that make us happy make us wise.”
    ― John Masefield
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    John Hodgman
    “Stories make sense when so much around us is senseless, and perhaps what makes them most comforting is that while life goes on and pain goes on, stories do us the favor of ending.”
    ― John Hodgman
    1780 likes



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