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    Haruki Murakami
    “What happens when people open their hearts?"
    "They get better.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
    tags: healing, vulnerability
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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
    135574 likes

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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    tags: characters, dreams, touchstones
    2395 likes

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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “We loved with a love that was more than love.”
    ― Edgar Allen Poe
    tags: logic, love
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.”
    ― Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
    tags: grudges
    4147 likes

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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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    Virginia Woolf
    “Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts
    tags: books, metaphor, soul
    5676 likes

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  • #8
    Anthony Burgess
    “Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.”
    ― anthony burgess
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    Raymond Carver
    “Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.”
    ― Raymond Carver
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  • #10
    C.S. Lewis
    “I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books-reading
    7327 likes

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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
    3206 likes

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    Eric Carle
    “We have eyes, and we're looking at stuff all the time, all day long. And I just think that whatever our eyes touch should be beautiful, tasteful, appealing, and important.”
    ― Eric Carle
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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
    3242 likes

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  • #14
    Frank Miller
    “The world doesn't make sense until you force it to.”
    ― Frank Miller
    tags: batman, comic-book-heroes, frank-miller
    1684 likes

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  • #15
    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life
    47059 likes

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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
    151574 likes

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  • #17
    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
    71708 likes

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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
    177281 likes

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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
    148480 likes

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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
    130238 likes

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    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
    128955 likes

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  • #22
    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
    119135 likes

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  • #23
    Carl Sandburg
    “I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.”
    ― Carl Sandburg
    tags: progress
    2234 likes

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  • #24
    H.L. Mencken
    “I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.”
    ― H.L. Mencken
    tags: bibliophiles, book-lovers, whiskey
    2451 likes

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  • #25
    Kathy Acker
    “If you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything.”
    ― Kathy Acker
    1476 likes



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