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#1

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

tags: books

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#2

“I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

tags: hate, love

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“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything

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#4

“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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#5

“Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.”
― O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi

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#6

“Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.”
― Samuel Beckett

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#7

“The world is a possibility if only you'll discover it.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

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#8

“You can smile when your heart is breaking because you're a woman.”
― Philippa Gregory, The Other Boleyn Girl

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#9

“Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

tags: imagination

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#10

“Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.”
― Doris Lessing

tags: friendship, love, trust

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#11

“The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.”
― H. P. Lovecraft

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#12

“Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.”
― Henry David Thoreau

tags: characters, dreams, touchstones

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#13

“Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.”
― Sue Grafton

tags: ideas

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#14

“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

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#15

“Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.”
― Orhan Pamuk, Snow

tags: happiness, love

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#16

“She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.”
― Henry James

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#17

“Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

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#18

“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
― Sigmund Freud

tags: inspirational-quotes

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#19

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

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#20

“It's not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

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#21

“Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story.”
― Daphne du Maurier

tags: writing

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#22

“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.”
― OMAR KHAYYAM, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

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#23

“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”
― Nora Ephron

tags: reading

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#24

“Ending a novel is almost like putting a child to sleep—it can't be done abruptly.”
― Colm Tóibín

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#25

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
― Charles M. Schulz

tags: chocolate, food, humor

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#26

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

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#27

“It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.”
― Bill Watterson

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#28

“I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.”
― Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret

tags: dreamers, magic, mermaids, travel, wizard

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#29

“The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.”
― Isabel Allende

tags: books

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#30

“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

tags: love

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