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    George Orwell
    “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: inspirational
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    Harper Lee
    “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: better-life-empathy
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    Vera Brittain
    “If this word should turn out to be a 'Te moriturum saluto,' perhaps it will brighten the dark moments a little to think how you have meant to someone more than anything ever has or ever will. What you have striven for will not end in nothing, all that you have done and been will not be wasted, for it will be a part of me as long as I live, and I shall remember, always.”
    ― Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth
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    Vera Brittain
    “How fortunate we were who still had hope I did not then realise; I could not know how soon the time would come when we should have no more hope, and yet be unable to die”
    ― Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth
    tags: death, hope
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “A study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon? There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume I
    tags: art, colour, exposure, isolation, jargon, life, murder, scarlet, skein, unraveling
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
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    Jane Austen
    “Angry people are not always wise.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: anger, jane-austen, wisdom
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    Jane Austen
    “I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: love, romance
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    Vera Brittain
    “Perhaps ...
    To R.A.L.

    Perhaps some day the sun will shine again,
    And I shall see that still the skies are blue,
    And feel one more I do not live in vain,
    Although bereft of you.

    Perhaps the golden meadows at my feet,
    Will make the sunny hours of spring seem gay,
    And I shall find the white May-blossoms sweet,
    Though You have passed away.

    Perhaps the summer woods will shimmer bright,
    And crimson roses once again be fair,
    And autumn harvest fields a rich delight,
    Although You are not there.

    But though kind Time may many joys renew,
    There is one greatest joy I shall not know
    Again, because my heart for loss of You
    Was broken, long ago.”
    ― Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth
    tags: grief, grief-and-loss, grief-inspirational, grief-inspirational-bereavement, war, world-war-i
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    Mary Ann Shaffer
    “That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you to another book, and another bit there will lead you onto a third book. It's geometrically progressive - all with no end in sight, and for no other reason than sheer enjoyment.”
    ― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
    tags: books, reading
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    Mary Ann Shaffer
    “I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with.”
    ― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
    tags: companionship, marriage, silence, talk
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you!”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: charlotte-bronte, heart, heartbreak, jane-eyre, love, misconceptions, obscurity, parting, plainness, poverty, soul
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism, self-awareness, self-determination, women
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    Jane Austen
    “In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride And Prejudice
    tags: love, mr-darcy
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: arrogance, empowerment, feminism, gender, hypocrisy, inequality, men, self-importance, women
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    Virginia Woolf
    “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: fiction, money, on-writing, virgin, women, writing
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: clichés, dignity, double-standards, empowerment, feminism, gender, hypocrisy, inequality, misogyny, morality, protectiveness, social-norms, stereotypes, womanhood, women
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