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#1

“Thats the spirit-one part brave,three parts fool.”
― Christopher Paolini, Eragon

tags: adult, christopher, dragon, eragon, paolini, young

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#2

“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”
― Albert Einstein

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#3

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives,
not the most intelligent that survives.
It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.”
― Charles Darwin

tags: life

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#4

“Intelligence is based on how efficient a species became at doing the things they need to survive.”
― Charles Darwin

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#5

“The loss of these tastes [for poetry and music] is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature.”
― Charles Darwin, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–82

tags: arts, character-building, emotions, intellect, music, poetry, stimulation, taste

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#6

“He is a weapon, a killer. Do not forget it. You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

tags: mythology, war

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#7

“I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed!”
― Abby Buchanan Longstreet

tags: challenge, conflict, defiance, humor, insult, mockery, wittiness

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#8

“And the yellow sunflower by the brook, in autumn beauty stood.”
― William Cullen Bryant

tags: autumn, beauty, nature, sunflower

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#9

“I don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.”
― Vincent Van Gogh

tags: stars-dreams

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#10

“From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them, and that is eternity.”
― Edvard Munch

tags: death, eternity

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#11

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

tags: inspirational

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#12

“I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to know better.”
― Oroma Elewa

tags: inspirational, muse, self-knowledge

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#13

“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: creativity, fantasy, imagination, inspirational

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#14

“The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: creativity, self-confidence, self-doubt

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#15

“There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun”
― Pablo Picasso

tags: art, creativity, imagination

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#16

“You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”
― Maya Angelou

tags: creativity

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#17

“I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.”
― Frida Kahlo

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#18

“I paint flowers so they will not die.”
― Frida Kahlo

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#19

“Am I not merciful?”
― Jay Kristoff, Illuminae

tags: aidan

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#20

“You've got the look of a girl who's no stranger to the page. I can tell. You've got words in your soul.”
― Jay Kristoff, Nevernight

tags: book, bookworm, girl, read, reading, soul, words

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#21

“Perhaps bravery is simply the face humanity wraps around its collective madness.”
― Amie Kaufman, Illuminae

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#22

“The universe owes you nothing...It has already given you everything, after all. It was here long before you, and it will go on long after you. The only way it will remember you is if you do something worthy of remembrance.”
― Amie Kaufman, Illuminae

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#23

“Every story needs its hero. And its villain. And its monster.”
― Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff, Obsidio

tags: aidan, hero, monster, stories, villain

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#24

“Hey," said Shadow. "Huginn or Muninn, or whoever you are."
The bird turned, head tipped, suspiciously, on one side, and it stared at him with bright eyes.
"Say 'Nevermore,'" said Shadow.
"Fuck you," said the raven.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

tags: edgar-allan-poe, humor, nevermore, parody, poe, raven

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#25

“Every hour wounds. The last one kills.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

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#26

“There's none so blind as those who will not listen.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

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#27

“Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

tags: belief, gods, ideas

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#28

“A cup of tea would restore my normality."

[Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Screenplay]”
― Douglas Adams

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#29

“The man is not wholly evil – he has a Thesaurus in his cabin.” (Captain Hook as described by J. M. Barrie in Peter Pan)”
― J.M. Barrie

tags: captain-hook, peter-pan, thesaurus

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