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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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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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    Sylvia Plath
    “I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: books, life, limits
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    Sylvia Plath
    “Dying
    Is an art, like everything else.
    I do it exceptionally well.
    I do it so it feels like hell.
    I do it so it feels real.
    I guess you could say I have a call.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, Ariel
    tags: death
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    Sylvia Plath
    “Now I am silent, hate
    Up to my neck,
    Thick, thick.
    I do not speak.

    --from "Lesbos", written 18 October 1962”
    ― Sylvia Plath, Ariel: The Restored Edition
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    Hlovate
    “Everybody know death is inevitably coming, but it never fails to catch everybody by surprise everytime one is going”
    ― Hlovate, Contengan Jalanan
    tags: death, life
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    Hlovate
    “The man that decided to change on the 12th hours died at the 11th.”
    ― Hlovate, Contengan Jalanan
    tags: inspirational
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    Hlovate
    “My books are my staple diet. As serious as insulin doses for those who are diabetics!”
    ― Hlovate, 5 tahun 5 bulan
    tags: humor
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    Stephen Chbosky
    “And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: infinity
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    Stephen Chbosky
    “I am very interested and fascinated how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: moi
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    Stephen Chbosky
    “And all the books you've read have been read by other people. And all the songs you've loved have been heard by other people. And that girl that's pretty to you is pretty to other people. and that if you looked at these facts when you were happy, you would feel great because you are describing 'unity.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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    Stephen Chbosky
    “It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: books-reading
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    Gail Carson Levine
    “A library is infinity under a roof.”
    ― Gail Carson Levine
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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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    Joseph Brodsky
    “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
    ― Joseph Brodsky
    tags: books, censorship, illiteracy, reading
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    Salman Rushdie
    “Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.”
    ― Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses
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    Kate Chopin
    “Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life.”
    ― Kate Chopin, The Awakening, and Selected Stories
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    Toni Morrison
    “At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint, or even remember it. It is enough.”
    ― Toni Morrison
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    Samuel Beckett
    “We are all born mad. Some remain so.”
    ― Samuel Beckett
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    Alison McGhee
    “You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offense, back and forth. They expect to leap into the fray. They are ready, fists up, words hanging leaping from their mouths. Silence? No.”
    ― Alison McGhee, All Rivers Flow to the Sea
    tags: expectations, powerful, silence
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    Aphra Behn
    “That perfect tranquility of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.”
    ― Aphra Behn, The Lucky Chance
    tags: library, reading
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    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
    “Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”
    ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
    tags: books, humor, reading
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    Clare Boothe Luce
    “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
    ― Clare Boothe Luce
    tags: elegance, misattributed-to-apple, misattributed-to-da-vinci, misattributed-to-steve-jobs, simplicity, sophistication
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    Haruki Murakami
    “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
    tags: books, thought
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    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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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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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
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  • #29
    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    ― Narcotics Anonymous
    tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein
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    Stieg Larsson
    “Friendship- my definition- is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can have respect for someone, but if you don't have trust, the friendship will crumble.”
    ― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
    tags: friendship, incredibly-true, mutuality, reciprocity, respect, trust
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