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#1

“One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again.”
― Jose Rizal

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#2

“We improve ourselves by victory over our self. There must be contests, and you must win.”
― Edward Gibbon

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#3

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

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#4

“She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

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#5

“Entiendo que lo único peor que sentir dolor es no sentir absolutamente nada.”
― Cielo Latini, Abzurdah

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#6

“Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.”
― Jean de La Fontaine

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#7

“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
― Pablo Neruda, Love: Ten Poems

tags: love

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#8

“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

tags: books, literature, philosphy, poetry, reading

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#9

“And people tended not to bother a woman with a book.”
― Cherie Priest, Dreadnought

tags: women

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#10

“Maybe the grass is greener on the other side depends who was standing in it. Sometimes you have to go over there and look.”
― Lynne Rae Perkins

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#11

“Read, read, read. That's all I can say.”
― Carolyn Keene, The Secret of the Old Clock

tags: nancy-drew

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#12

“¿Son conscientes las piezas del ajedrez de que todas sus acciones, todos sus triunfos y sus derrotas, nunca les han pertenecido?”
― Care Santos

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#13

“There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: happiness

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#14

“She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings.”
― Muriel Spark, Aiding and Abetting

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#15

“Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.”
― Edward Abbey

tags: truth

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#16

“Heaven would never be heaven without you.”
― Richard Matheson, What Dreams May Come

tags: heaven, love

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#17

“It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.”
― John Updike, My Father's Tears and Other Stories

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#18

“Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly each day.”
― William Allingham

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#19

“I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.”
― Carl Sandburg

tags: progress

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#20

“People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, The Journals of Kierkegaard

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#21

“The mountains are calling and I must go.”
― John Muir

tags: nature

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#22

“The human face has limited space. If you fill it with laughter there will be no room for crying.”
― Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance

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#23

“I stared up at the sky and raised my middle finger, just in case God was watching. I don't like being spied on.”
― Annabel Pitcher, My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece

tags: cursing, god, humor, innocent, middle-finger, privacy, secret, spied

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