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    “Quello che rende sopportabile il giorno è che infine arriva sempre la notte, a legittimare le nostre bugie.”
    ― Sara Zelda Mazzini, I Dissidenti
    tags: umanità, vita
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    Anna Sewell
    “It is good people who make good places.”
    ― Anna Sewell, Black Beauty
    tags: attitude, genius-loci, goodness, people, places, spirit, warmth, welcoming
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Elbert Hubbard
    “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
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    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
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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    Octavio Paz
    “Deserve your dream.”
    ― octavio paz
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    Veronica Roth
    “We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Divergent
    tags: inspirational-quotes, strength-and-courage
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    Rainbow Rowell
    “Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”
    ― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
    tags: art, love
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    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
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    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
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    Stephanie Perkins
    “Is it possible for home to be a person and not a place?”
    ― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss
    tags: home, lover, person
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    Stephanie Perkins
    “Boys turns girls into such idiots.”
    ― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss
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    Stephanie Perkins
    “Why is it that the right people never wind up together? Why are people so afraid to leave a relationship, even if they know it's a bad one?”
    ― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss
    tags: couples
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    Stephanie Perkins
    “This is home. The two of us.”
    ― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss
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  • #19
    Kiera Cass
    “True love is usually the most inconvenient kind.”
    ― Kiera Cass, The Selection
    tags: inconvenient, love, relationship, true-love
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    Kiera Cass
    “I hope you find someone you can't live without.I really do. And I hope you never have to know what it's like to have to try and live without them.”
    ― Kiera Cass, The Selection
    tags: america, the-selection
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    Kiera Cass
    “It's always the fear of looking stupid that stops you from being awesome.”
    ― Kiera Cass, The Selection
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    Angie Thomas
    “It's dope to be black until it's hard to be black.”
    ― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give
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    Angie Thomas
    “Intentions always look better on paper than in reality.”
    ― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give
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    Angie Thomas
    “Once upon a time there was a hazel-eyed boy with dimples. I called him Khalil. The world called him a thug.
    He lived, but not nearly long enough, and for the rest of my life I'll remember how he died.
    Fairy tale? No. But I'm not giving up on a better ending.”
    ― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give
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    Angie Thomas
    “People like us in situations like this become hashtags, but they rarely get justice. I think we all wait for that one time though, that one time when it ends right.”
    ― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give
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    Angie Thomas
    “My son loved working in the neighborhood," One-Fifteen's father claims. "He always wanted to make a difference in the lives there."

    Funny. Slave masters thought they were making a difference in black people’s lives too. Saving them from their “wild African ways.” Same shit, different century. I wish people like them would stop thinking that people like me need saving.”
    ― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give
    tags: african-americans, blacks, making-a-difference, police, police-brutality, slavery
    195 likes

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  • #27
    L.M. Montgomery
    “I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
    ― L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
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  • #28
    Taylor Jenkins Reid
    “People think that intimacy is about sex. But intimacy is about truth. When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you stand in front of them bare and their response is 'you're safe with me'- that's intimacy.”
    ― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
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    Taylor Jenkins Reid
    “I’m under absolutely no obligation to make sense to you.”
    ― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
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  • #30
    Taylor Jenkins Reid
    “Don't ignore half of me so you can fit me into a box. Don't do that.”
    ― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
    2184 likes



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