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#1

“Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the other side?”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

tags: a-game-of-thrones, a-song-of-ice-and-fire, curiosity, george-r-r-martin, tyrion-lannister, wall

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#2

“Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.”
― Khaled Hosseini

tags: man, men, woman, women

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#3

“And I also know that when this war is over, Afghanistan is going to need you as much as its men, maybe even more. Because a society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated, Laila. No chance.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

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#4

“Sometimes Laila wondered why Mammy had even bothered having her. People, she believed now, shouldn't be allowed to have new children if they'd already given away all their love to their old ones. It wasn't fair.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

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#5

“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
― Kahlil Gibran

tags: emotion, heartbreak, lost-love, love, parting

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#6

“You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

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#7

“You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. For what are your possessions but things you keep and guard for fear you may need them tomorrow?”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

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#8

“You often say, ‘I would give, but only to the deserving.’ The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture. They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

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#9

“For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger.”
― Gibran, Kahlil Gibran

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#10

“Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

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#11

“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

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#12

“Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful.”
― Khalil Gibran

tags: beauty, clothes

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#13

“And when one of you falls down he falls for those behind him, a caution against the stumbling stone. Ay, and he falls for those ahead of him, who, though faster and surer of foot, yet removed not the stumbling stone.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

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#14

“Surely you would not honour one guest above the other; for he who is more mindful of one loses the love and the faith of both.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

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#15

“No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

tags: knowledge, poetry

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#16

“Say not, ‘I have found the truth,’ but rather, ‘I have found a truth.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

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#17

“Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil. For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

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#18

“You are good when you are one with yourself. Yet when you are not one with yourself you are not evil. For a divided house is not a den of thieves; it is only a divided house.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

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#19

“You are good when you strive to give of yourself. Yet you are not evil when you seek gain for yourself.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

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#20

“But you who are strong and swift, see that you do not limp before the lame, deeming it kindness.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

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#21

“Even those who limp go not backward.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

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#22

“Oftentimes in denying yourself pleasure you do but store the desire in the recesses of your being.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

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#23

“He who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked.”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

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#24

“We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day, and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

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#25

“When the woman you live with is an artist, every day is a surprise.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

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#26

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books

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#27

“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

tags: books, mind

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#28

“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

tags: identity

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#29

“Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?'
'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

tags: bravery, courage, fear

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#30

“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire, 5-Book Boxed Set: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, A Dance with Dragons

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