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#1

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

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#2

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

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#3

“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora

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#4

“There is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart.”
― Charles Dickens, Hard Times

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#5

“Do the wise thing and the kind thing too, and make the best of us and not the worst.”
― Charles Dickens, Hard Times

tags: good-book-for-all-teachers

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#6

“Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.
"Pooh!" he whispered.
"Yes, Piglet?"
"Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you.”
― A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner

tags: friendship, piglet, pooh, reassurance

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#7

“You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

tags: friendship, inspirational, pooh, winnie

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#8

“It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?”
― A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

tags: friendship

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#9

“People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

tags: humor, idleness, inspirational

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#10

“If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

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#11

“Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That's the problem.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

tags: animals

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#12

“Think it over, think it under.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

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#13

“They're funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you're having them.”
― A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner

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#14

“The Lorax: Which way does a tree fall?
The Once-ler: Uh, down?
The Lorax: A tree falls the way it leans. Be careful which way you lean.”
― Dr. Seuss, The Lorax

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#15

“I don't want to die without any scars.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

tags: death, scars, tyler-durden

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#16

“I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: friendship, insincerity, manners

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#17

“Mothers are all slightly insane.”
― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: motherhood

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#18

“The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: attributed, growing-up, wilhelm-stekel

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#19

“All morons hate it when you call them a moron.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: holden

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#20

“The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

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#21

“Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

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#22

“Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

tags: adoration, ardor, love

1693 likes

#23

“We’ll never survive!”
“Nonsense. You’re only saying that because no one ever has.”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

tags: doubt, humor, optimism, survival

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#24

“Ah, music," he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic beyond all we do here!”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

tags: dumbledore, magic, music, power-of-music

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#25

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

tags: abilities

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#26

“When in doubt, go to the library.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

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#27

“If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

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#28

“People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

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#29

“Peter would think her sentimental. So she was. For she had come to feel that it was the only thing worth saying – what one felt. Cleverness was silly. One must say simply what one felt.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

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#30

“Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

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