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    Anne Frank
    “It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
    ― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
    tags: hope, human-nature
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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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    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Tennessee Williams
    “If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.”
    ― Tennessee Williams, Conversations With Tennessee Williams
    tags: angels, demons
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    Stephen Chbosky
    “So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: charlie, favourite-books, inspirational, sad, soul-searching, wallflower
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    Stephen Chbosky
    “This moment will just be another story someday.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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    Anne Frank
    “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
    ― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings
    tags: activism, life, optimism, philosophy, world
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    Anne Frank
    “I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”
    ― Anne Frank
    tags: writing
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    Anne Frank
    “Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.”
    ― Anne Frank
    tags: growing-up, innocence, inspirational, parenting, personal-responsibility, right-of-passage, self-determination, self-responsibility
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    Anne Frank
    “Because paper has more patience than people. ”
    ― Anne Frank
    tags: affirming, inspirational, uplifting
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    Anne Frank
    “I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.”
    ― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
    tags: beauty, hope, inspirational, joy
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    Anne Frank
    “Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.”
    ― Anne Frank
    tags: candle, darkness, illumination, misattributed
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    Anne Frank
    “I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death!”
    ― Anne Frank
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    Anne Frank
    “We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.”
    ― Anne Frank
    tags: happiness, literature
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    Anne Frank
    “Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.”
    ― Anne Frank
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    Anne Frank
    “I think a lot, but I don't say much.”
    ― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
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    Franz Kafka
    “I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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    Beatrix Potter
    “There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.”
    ― Beatrix Potter
    tags: writing
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
    ― George R. R. Martin
    tags: books, reading
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    A.A. Milne
    “Some people care too much. I think it's called love.”
    ― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
    tags: f-scott-fitzgerald
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    Douglas Preston
    “We all have a Monster within; the difference is in degree, not in kind.”
    ― Douglas Preston, The Monster of Florence
    tags: evil, monster
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    Colette
    “Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.”
    ― Colette
    tags: animals, companions, friends, pets
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    Patrick Rothfuss
    “It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
    tags: identity, self-image, sense-of-self, stories, storytelling
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    Charles Dickens
    “No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”
    ― Charles Dickens
    tags: giving, helping-others
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    George S. McGovern
    “I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.”
    ― George McGovern
    tags: anti-war, battle, death, old-men, peace, soldiers, war, youth
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    Amanda Lovelace
    “the love
    some girls
    have for
    other girls
    is
    so gentle
    & so soft
    & so fucking
    beautiful,
    &
    these girls
    deserve
    to have
    better stories
    than the ones
    where they
    are murdered
    because they love
    with too much
    of their
    hearts.

    -love is never a weakness.”
    ― Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in This One
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    Maggie Stiefvater
    “Ronan said, "I'm always straight."
    Adam replied "Oh, man, that's the biggest lie you've ever told.”
    ― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys
    tags: humor, lies, love
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    Brandon Sanderson
    “It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn't want to move around very much.”
    ― Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension
    tags: books, humor, reading
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    M.L. Rio
    “For someone who loved words as much as I did, it was amazing how often they failed me.”
    ― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains
    tags: words
    1922 likes



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