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    John Waters
    “If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!”
    ― John Waters
    tags: books, fuck, profanity, reading
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    Dave Eggers
    “At that moment I was sure. That I belonged in my skin. That my organs were mine and my eyes were mine and my ears, which could only hear the silence of this night and my faint breathing, were mine, and I loved them and what they could do.”
    ― Dave Eggers
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    Haruki Murakami
    “What I saw wasn't a ghost. It was simply--myself. I can never forget how terrified I was that night, and whenever I remember it, this thought always springs to mind: that the most frightening thing in the world is our own self. What do you think?”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: 24 Stories
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    Haruki Murakami
    “She waited for the train to pass. Then she said, "I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s at the bottom. All you can do is imagine by what comes floating to the surface every once in a while.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
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    Poe
    “Sometimes I’m terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts.”
    ― Poe
    tags: lyrics, misattributed-edgar-allan-poe
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    Haruki Murakami
    “Your work should be an act of love, not a marriage of convenience.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
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    Oscar Wilde
    “With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?”
    ― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
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    Elizabeth Berg
    “I hadn't realized how much I'd been needing to meet someone I might be able to say everything to.”
    ― Elizabeth Berg, Talk Before Sleep
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    John Green
    “Thomas Edison's last words were "It's very beautiful over there". I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful.”
    ― John Green, Looking for Alaska
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    Jack Kerouac
    “Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.”
    ― Jack Kerouac, On the Road
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    Jack Kerouac
    “Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream”
    ― Jack Kerouac
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    Yukio Mishima
    “What transforms this world is — knowledge. Do you see what I mean? Nothing else can change anything in this world. Knowledge alone is capable of transforming the world, while at the same time leaving it exactly as it is. When you look at the world with knowledge, you realize that things are unchangeable and at the same time are constantly being transformed.”
    ― Yukio Mishima, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
    tags: knowledge, stillness, transformation
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
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    Yohji Yamamoto
    “I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion.”
    ― Yohji Yamamoto
    tags: disorder, distortion, failure, perfection, scars
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    Haruki Murakami
    “Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star.
    It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago.
    Maybe the star doesn't even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun
    tags: longing, love
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    Haruki Murakami
    “Letters are just pieces of paper," I said. "Burn them, and what stays in your heart will stay; keep them, and what vanishes will vanish.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
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    Yukio Mishima
    “I still have no way to survive but to keep writing one line, one more line, one more line...”
    ― Yukio Mishima
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: food, happiness
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Haruki Murakami
    “Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
    tags: memories
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    Haruki Murakami
    “In everybody’s life there’s a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can’t go forward anymore. And when we reach that point, all we can do is quietly accept the fact. That’s how we survive.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
    tags: life, life-lessons, point-of-no-return, problems, struggles
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    Naoko Takeuchi
    “We all, everyone one of us, carry a star inside our chests. ...Light and darkness are always side-by-side. If you show even the slightest fear or tears to the darkness, it will immediately swell and come attacking, and swallow up the light. Serenity, in order to defeat the darkness and dark souls, you must keep the star inside your chest burning brightly at all times. That is your most important charge.”
    ― Naoko Takeuchi, 美少女戦士セーラームーン 10 [Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon 10]
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    Haruki Murakami
    “The point is, not to resist the flow. You go up when you're supposed to go up and down when you're supposed to go down. When you're supposed to go up, find the highest tower and climb to the top. When you're supposed to go down, find the deepest well and go down to the bottom. When there's no flow, stay still. If you resist the flow, everything dries up. If everything dries up, the world is darkness.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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    Harper Lee
    “Every man’s island, Jean Louise, every man’s watchman, is his conscience. There is no such thing as a collective conscious.”
    ― Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman
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    Harper Lee
    “Pass the damn ham, please.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
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    C.S. Lewis
    “The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become - because He made us. He invented us. He invented all the different people that you and I were intended to be. . .It is when I turn to Christ, when I give up myself to His personality, that I first begin to have a real personality of my own.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: new-beginnings
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    T.S. Eliot
    “For last year's words belong to last year's language
    And next year's words await another voice.
    And to make an end is to make a beginning."

    (Little Gidding)”
    ― T.S. Eliot
    tags: new-beginnings, new-year, new-year-s-day
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
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    E.E. Cummings
    “in time of daffodils(who know
    the goal of living is to grow)
    forgetting why,remember how

    in time of lilacs who proclaim
    the aim of waking is to dream,
    remember so(forgetting seem)

    in time of roses(who amaze
    our now and here with paradise)
    forgetting if,remember yes

    in time of all sweet things beyond
    whatever mind may comprehend,
    remember seek(forgetting find)

    and in a mystery to be
    (when time from time shall set us free)
    forgetting me,remember me”
    ― E.E. Cummings
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