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    Kazuo Ishiguro
    “Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.”
    ― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
    tags: memory
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    John Keats
    “I have been astonished that men could die martyrs
    for their religion--
    I have shuddered at it,
    I shudder no more.
    I could be martyred for my religion.
    Love is my religion
    and I could die for that.
    I could die for you.
    My Creed is Love and you are its only tenet.”
    ― John Keats
    tags: love, martyrdom, self-sacrifice
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    Brian Selznick
    “If you've ever wondered where your dreams come from when you go to sleep at night, just look around. This is where they are made. ”
    ― Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret
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    John Keats
    “A thing of beauty is a joy forever.”
    ― John Keats, Endymion: A Poetic Romance
    tags: beauty, happiness, joy
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    John Keats
    “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all
    Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know”
    ― John Keats, The Complete Poems
    tags: beauty, poetry, truth
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
    tags: f-scott-fitzgerald
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
    tags: belonging, company, desires, literature, longings
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    Brian Selznick
    “I like to imagine that the world is one big machine. You know, machines never have any extra parts. They have the exact number and type of parts they need. So I figure if the entire world is a big machine, I have to be here for some reason. And that means you have to be here for some reason, too.”
    ― Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret
    tags: analogy, inspiration, machine, thought-provoking, usefulness
    779 likes

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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Boscombe Valley Mystery - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story
    tags: deception, detection, evidence, facts, obviousness, sherlock-holmes
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Complete Sherlock Holmes
    tags: sherlock-holmes, silence
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “The game is afoot.”
    ― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Adventure of the Abbey Grange - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story
    tags: shakespearean, sherlock-holmes
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    “Some people are born to make great art and others are born to appreciate it. Don't you think? It is a kind of talent in itself, to be an audience, whether you are the spectator in the gallery or you are listening to the voice of the world's greatest soprano. Not everyone can be the artist. There have to be those who witness the art, who love and appreciate what they have been privileged to see.”
    ― Ann Patchett, Bel Canto
    tags: art
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  • #14
    “It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how.”
    ― Ann Patchett, Bel Canto
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    Jacqueline Winspear
    “Memories are links in a golden chain that bind us until we meet again.”
    ― Jacqueline Winspear, Maisie Dobbs
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    Jacqueline Winspear
    “Truth walks toward us on the paths of our questions...as soon as you think you have the answer, you have closed the path and may miss vital new information. Wait awhile in the stillness, and do not rush to conclusions, no matter how uncomfortable the unknowing.”
    ― Jacqueline Winspear, Maisie Dobbs
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “No one you love is ever truly lost.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: the-paris-wife
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    Agatha Christie
    “I am all that there is of the most real.”
    ― Agatha Christie
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
    tags: accomplishment, belief, rewriting-history, sherlock-holmes
    868 likes

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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “What one man can invent, another can discover.”
    ― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [Sherlock Holmes] Doyle, The Adventure of the Dancing Men
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    C.S. Lewis
    “In those days Mr. Sherlock Holmes was still living in Baker Street and the Bastables were looking for treasure in the Lewisham Road.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
    tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton
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  • #25
    Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
    “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
    tags: books, reading
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    C.S. Lewis
    “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea
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    J.D. Salinger
    “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing
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    Elsie de Wolfe
    “I am going to make everything around me beautiful - that will be my life.”
    ― Elsie de Wolfe
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    Elsie de Wolfe
    “I was not ugly. I might never be anything for men to lose their heads about, but I need never again be ugly. This knowledge was like a song within me. Suddenly it all came together. If you were healthy, fit, and well-dressed, you could be attractive.”
    ― Elsie de Wolfe
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    Dodie Smith
    “Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.”
    ― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
    tags: baths, deeds, depression
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    Dodie Smith
    “How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!”
    ― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
    tags: jane-austen
    1360 likes



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