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    John Steinbeck
    “All great and precious things are lonely.”
    ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
    tags: loneliness
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    John Steinbeck
    “I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”
    ― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
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    John Steinbeck
    “I guess there are never enough books.”
    ― John Steinbeck, A John Steinbeck Encyclopedia
    tags: books, reading, sufficiency
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    John Steinbeck
    “To be alive at all is to have scars.”
    ― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
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    Haruki Murakami
    “Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment. ”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
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    Woody Allen
    “I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
    ― Woody Allen
    tags: death, fear, humor, life
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    Herbert Hoover
    “Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.”
    ― Herbert Hoover
    tags: age, death, fighting, old-age, war, youth
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    Ian Fleming
    “You only live twice:
    Once when you are born
    And once when you look death in the face”
    ― Ian Fleming, You Only Live Twice
    tags: death, haiku, james-bond, philosophy, poetry
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    E.B. White
    “After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die.”
    ― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web
    tags: birth, death, life
    729 likes

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    Jasper Fforde
    “Dead. Never been that before. Not even once.”
    ― Jasper Fforde, First Among Sequels
    tags: death, humor
    146 likes

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    Jim Morrison
    “No one here gets out alive.”
    ― Jim Morrison
    tags: death, life, verse
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  • #12
    William Shakespeare
    “So wise so young, they say, do never live long.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Richard III
    tags: death, wisdom, youth
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    Samuel Beckett
    “The only sin is the sin of being born”
    ― Samuel Beckett
    tags: birth, death, sin
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    Patricia Briggs
    “The only certainty life contains is death.”
    ― Patricia Briggs, When Demons Walk
    tags: death, life
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    Stephen King
    “You're dead, George. You just don't have the sense to lie down.”
    ― Stephen King, The Dark Half
    tags: death, humor
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    J.D. Salinger
    “When you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: cemetery, death, funeral-rites, holden
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Everything ends in death, everything. Death is terrible.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
    tags: death
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    Sogyal Rinpoche
    “There would be no chance to get to know death at all ...if it happened only once.”
    ― Sogyal Rinpoche
    tags: death
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    Woody Allen
    “My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.”
    ― Woody Allen
    tags: life
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    Aristotle
    “To perceive is to suffer.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: empathy, life, suffer, understanding
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    Isaac Asimov
    “Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I’ll never speak to God again.”
    ― Sylvia Plath
    tags: death, depression
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    Hideaki Anno
    “I musn't run away.”
    ― Hideaki Anno
    tags: bravery, depression, fear, instrumentality, life, shinji-ikari
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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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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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Elbert Hubbard
    “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
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    Steve Martin
    “A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
    ― Steve Martin
    tags: humor, obvious, simile
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: paraphrased, strength
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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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