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    George Eliot
    “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
    ― George Elliott
    tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-george-eliot
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    D.H. Lawrence
    “Why, oh why must one grow up, why must one inherit this heavy, numbing responsibility of living an undiscovered life? Out of the nothingness and the undifferentiated mass, to make something of herself! But what? In the obscurity and pathlessness to take a direction! But whither? How take even one step? And yet, how stand still? This was torment indeed, to inherit the responsibility of one’s own life.”
    ― D.H. Lawrence, The Rainbow
    tags: life, responsibility
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: inspirational, life, yourself
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: art, life
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    Thomas Hardy
    “Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.”
    ― Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge
    tags: happiness, life, suffering
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    D.H. Lawrence
    “For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.”
    ― D.H. Lawrence
    tags: broken-heart, d-h-lawrence, love, pomegranate
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    D.H. Lawrence
    “But having more freedom she only became more profoundly aware of the big want. She wanted so many things. She wanted to read great, beautiful books, and be rich with them; she wanted to see beautiful things, and have the joy of them for ever; she wanted to know big, free people; and there remained always the want she could put no name to?
    It was so difficult. There were so many things, so much to meet and surpass. And one never knew where one was going.”
    ― D.H. Lawrence, The Rainbow
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    D.H. Lawrence
    “Gods should be iridescent, like the rainbow in the storm. Man creates a God in his own image, and the gods grow old along with the men that made them... But the god-stuff roars eternally, like the sea, with too vast a sound to be heard.”
    ― D.H. Lawrence
    tags: god, gods
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: books, children
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  • #11
    George Bernard Shaw
    “Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: adaptation, change, open-mindedness, self-improvement
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Youth is wasted on the young.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
    tags: desire, life, lost, paradox, tragedy
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “There is no love sincerer than the love of food.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, BBC Radio presents Man and superman
    tags: food, gluttony, love
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, Immaturity
    tags: family, humor
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend ... if you have one."
    — George Bernard Shaw, playwright (to Winston Churchill)

    "Cannot possibly attend first night; will attend second, if there is one."
    — Churchill's response”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: mistakes, success
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  • #18
    D.H. Lawrence
    “A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board”
    ― D.H. Lawrence
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: change, tolstoy
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: perfection
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina
    tags: family, first-sentence
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “I think... if it is true that
    there are as many minds as there
    are heads, then there are as many
    kinds of love as there are hearts.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: care, diversity, heart, individuality, love, mind, seduction, soul
    5665 likes

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  • #23
    Leo Tolstoy
    “Spring is the time of plans and projects.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: spring
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  • #24
    Leo Tolstoy
    “Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
    tags: men-women
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Семейное счастие
    tags: books, conduct-of-life, contentment, country, happiness, life, music, nature, neighborliness, rest, usefulness, work
    1969 likes

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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession
    tags: conscience, majority, right-and-wrong, truth, wrong
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “I've always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: anna-karenina, love, tolstoy
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  • #28
    Leo Tolstoy
    “All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: on-writing, storytelling
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    Owen Sheers
    “And that's why he's come back again,
    to tip these ashes onto the tongue of the wind
    and watch them spindrift into the night.

    Not just to make the circle complete,
    to heal or mend
    but because he knows these walls,

    sunk however low,
    still hold him in as well as out:
    protect as much as they defend.

    -The Hill Fort”
    ― Owen Sheers, Skirrid Hill
    tags: family, love, relationships, sad, sheers
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