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  • #1
    Anne Frank
    “I've found that there is always some beauty left -- in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you.”
    ― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
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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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    J.K. Rowling
    “Honestly, if you were any slower, you’d be going backward.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
    tags: draco-malfoy, stupidity
    3211 likes

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  • #4
    Joseph Conrad
    “It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.”
    ― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
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  • #5
    Hans Christian Andersen
    “When the bird of the heart begins to sing, too often will reason stop up her ears.”
    ― Hans Christian Andersen
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  • #6
    Dorothy L. Sayers
    “Facts are like cows. If you look them in the face long enough, they generally run away.”
    ― Dorothy L. Sayers
    tags: facts, truth
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  • #7
    Coco Chanel
    “The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
    ― Coco Chanel
    tags: courage, dignity, empowerment, freedom, independence, individuality, judgment, self-determination, speaking-out, thought
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  • #8
    Maya Angelou
    “I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

    (Popular misquote of "You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.")”
    ― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter
    tags: be-yourself, inspirational, misquote, self-determination
    7155 likes

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  • #9
    William Shakespeare
    “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
    tags: self-determination, self-responsibility, timidity
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  • #10
    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
    13880 likes

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  • #11
    John Green
    “You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: satisfaction, self-determination
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  • #12
    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
    ― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein
    tags: change, human
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    Lev Grossman
    “If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.”
    ― Lev Grossman, The Magicians
    tags: life-truths, reality-check
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  • #14
    Ward Moore
    “Why should you believe your eyes? You were given eyes to see with, not to believe with. Your eyes can see the mirage, the hallucination as easily as the actual scenery.”
    ― Ward Moore, Bring the Jubilee
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  • #15
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
    tags: independent-thought, self-determination, self-expression
    6691 likes

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  • #16
    Masashi Kishimoto
    “If you don't like the hand that fate's dealt you, fight for a new one.”
    ― Masashi Kishimoto
    tags: naruto
    1803 likes

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    Nadine Gordimer
    “I'm a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can't see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.”
    ― Nadine Gordimer, The House Gun
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    Gloria Whelan
    “They were all brilliant. They wrote books and painted pictures, and if they ever stopped talking, which I was sure they would never do, they planned to change the world.”
    ― Gloria Whelan, Listening for Lions
    tags: artistic, bohemian, change-the-world, doing, talking, visonary
    921 likes

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  • #19
    Charlaine Harris
    “Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
    ― Charlaine Harris
    tags: books-vacation
    8571 likes

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  • #20
    Stefan Zweig
    “Nothing whets the intelligence more than a passionate suspicion, nothing develops all the faculties of an immature mind more than a trail running away into the dark.”
    ― Stefan Zweig, The Burning Secret and other stories
    tags: curiousity, intelligence, mystery, puzzle, trail
    906 likes

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  • #21
    Natalie Angier
    “We are made of stardust; why not take a few moments to look up at the family album?”
    ― Natalie Angier, The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science
    1433 likes

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  • #22
    Giacomo Casanova
    “Be the flame, not the moth.”
    ― Giacomo Casanova
    tags: passion, self-destruction
    2055 likes



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