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#1

“Books. Cats. Life is Good.”
― Edward Gorey

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#2

“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
― Lloyd Alexander

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#3

“Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.”
― Vincent Van Gogh

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#4

“There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.”
― Irving Stone, Clarence Darrow for the Defense

tags: books, friendship

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#5

“Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.”
― Robert J. Sawyer, Calculating God

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#6

“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
― Henry Ward Beecherr

tags: books, humor

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#7

“A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.”
― Shelby Foote

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#8

“Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.”
― Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot

tags: books, life

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#9

“Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can.”
― Richard Hughes

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#10

“I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

tags: mischief

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#11

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

tags: books, magic, reading

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#12

“Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.”
― Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Maxims

tags: love

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#13

“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.”
― Socrates

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#14

“Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”
― Doris Lessing

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#15

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: age, fairytales, growing-up

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#16

“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

tags: humor, inspirational, philosophy, wisdom

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#17

“Memory is a cruel mistress with whom we all must learn to dance.”
― Kate Morton, The Forgotten Garden

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#18

“The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”
― Anna Quindlen

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#19

“I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way.”
― Walter Tevis

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#20

“Go, my book, and help destroy the world as it is.”
― Russell Banks, Continental Drift

tags: books

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#21

“Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.”
― George Eliot, Impressions of Theophrastus Such

tags: loquacity, remaining-silent, silence

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#22

“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
― Franz Kafka

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#23

“We are not all born at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later... Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.”
― Mary Austin

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#24

“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.”
― Zora Neale Hurston

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#25

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books

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#26

“There are no happy endings.
Endings are the saddest part,
So just give me a happy middle
And a very happy start.”
― Shel Silverstein, Every Thing on It

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#27

“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
― P.G. Wodehouse

tags: friendship, literature

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#28

“Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.”
― Zig Ziglar

tags: attention, direction, focus, inspirational, motivational

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#29

“One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.”
― Stephen Hawking

tags: philosophy, science

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#30

“I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.”
― Henry Fielding

tags: contentment, inner-peace

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