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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir , La vieillesse
    tags: ageing, inifinity, life, old-age
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    Julia Glass
    “When it comes to life, we spin our own yarn, and where we end up is really, in fact, where we always intended to be.”
    ― Julia Glass, Three Junes
    tags: fate
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
    130160 likes

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    Susan Faludi
    “When the enemy has no face, society will invent one.”
    ― Susan Faludi
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    Daniel Defoe
    “The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.”
    ― Daniel Defoe
    tags: diamond, soul
    1815 likes

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    Orhan Pamuk
    “Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.”
    ― Orhan Pamuk, Snow
    tags: happiness, love
    3193 likes

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    Stieg Larsson
    “What she had realized was that love was that moment when your heart was about to burst.”
    ― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
    tags: adoration, infatuation, love
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    Louise Erdrich
    “Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.”
    ― Louise Erdrich
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    John Green
    “As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: love
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    Sarah Dessen
    “There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”
    ― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
    tags: love
    31294 likes

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    Nicholas Sparks
    “Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.”
    ― Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember
    tags: love, simile
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    Octavia E. Butler
    “When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.”
    ― Octavia E. Butler, Fledgling
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    Isabel Allende
    “The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.”
    ― Isabel Allende
    tags: books
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    Guy de Maupassant
    “Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.”
    ― Guy de Maupassant
    tags: memory
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  • #17
    “Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass.”
    ― Jonathan Kellerman
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    Connie Willis
    “That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell us about life and death! Listen to them!”
    ― Connie Willis, Passage
    tags: death, life, literature, messages
    1567 likes

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    Harlan Coben
    “Years fly by, but the heart stays in the same place.”
    ― Harlan Coben, Promise Me
    1944 likes

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    Ayn Rand
    “If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.”
    ― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
    tags: atlas, shrugged
    3748 likes

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    Arthur Miller
    “Everything we are is at every moment alive in us.”
    ― Arthur Miller
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    Kenzaburō Ōe
    “The dead can survive as part of the lives of those that still live.”
    ― Kenzaburō Ōe, Hiroshima Notes
    tags: death
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    Langston Hughes
    “Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.”
    ― Langston Hughes
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    Gertrude Stein
    “One must dare to be happy. ”
    ― Gertrude Stein
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    John Grisham
    “Don't compromise yourself - you're all you have.”
    ― John Grisham, The Rainmaker
    tags: be-yourself, courtroom-drama, crime
    3192 likes

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    Sandra J. Jackson
    “I can't do anything else until the words in my head are set free.”
    ― Sandra J. Jackson
    tags: writing-life, writing-philosophy
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    Erica Jong
    “I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back....”
    ― Erica Jong
    tags: change, courage, fear, life
    2386 likes

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  • #28
    Jane Austen
    “What are men to rocks and mountains?”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: men, mountains, rocks
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  • #29
    Carl Sandburg
    “I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.”
    ― Carl Sandburg
    tags: progress
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    Corrie ten Boom
    “Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.”
    ― Corrie Ten Boom
    tags: forgiveness, hiding-place
    2042 likes

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    Kathy Acker
    “If you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything.”
    ― Kathy Acker
    1475 likes



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