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  • #32
    Anton Chekhov
    “Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.”
    ― Anton Chekhov
    tags: love
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    Anton Chekhov
    “Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
    ― Anton Chekhov
    tags: broken-glass, glass, moon, moonshine, show-don-t-tell, writing
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  • #34
    Anton Chekhov
    “Three o'clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking at my windows and caressingly winking at me with its stars. I can't sleep, I am so happy.”
    ― Anton Chekhov, About Love and Other Stories
    tags: happiness, love
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  • #35
    Vladimir Nabokov
    “Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov, Mary
    tags: craving, desire, life, nostalgia, seasons, spring, wanderlust
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  • #36
    Ta-Nehisi Coates
    “You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable.”
    ― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
    tags: african-americans, being-yourself, blacks, growing-up, race-relations, racism, self
    488 likes

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  • #37
    Washington Irving
    “There is a sacredness in tears....They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love.”
    ― Washington Irving
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  • #38
    Oscar Wilde
    “It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: books, reading
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  • #39
    Maya Angelou
    “Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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  • #40
    Leonora Carrington
    “We went down into the silent garden. Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the hour of silence. Everything is transfixed, only the light moves.”
    ― Leonora Carrington
    tags: dawn, light, silence
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  • #41
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
    ― Rumi
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  • #42
    “Life was too short for bad books, or even good books that you just don’t like.”
    ― Sarah Moriarty, North Haven
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  • #43
    W.G. Sebald
    “It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.”
    ― W.G. Sebald, Vertigo
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  • #44
    Joseph Brodsky
    “The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even—if you will—eccentricity.”
    ― Joseph Brodsky
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  • #45
    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    ― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You
    tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail
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  • #46
    Louise Erdrich
    “When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.”
    ― Louise Erdrich, The Plague of Doves
    tags: athe-plague-of-dives
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  • #47
    Henry David Thoreau
    “The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
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  • #48
    Judy Blume
    “You've never been in love," she said. "You don't understand."

    "If being in love means giving up your freedom, not to mention your opportunities," Caitlin said, "Then I haven't missed anything.”
    ― Judy Blume, Summer Sisters
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  • #49
    Judy Blume
    “Fear is often disguised as moral outrage.”
    ― Judy Blume
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  • #50
    Judy Blume
    “I can't let safety and security become the focus of my life.”
    ― Judy Blume, Tiger Eyes
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  • #51
    Judy Blume
    “She wondered if all the firsts in her life would go by so quickly, and be forgotten just as quickly.”
    ― Judy Blume, Summer Sisters
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  • #52
    It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our
    “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
    tags: abilities
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  • #53
    Fred Rogers
    “When I say it's you I like, I'm talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can ever see or hear or touch. That deep part of you that allows you to stand for those things without which humankind cannot survive. Love that conquers hate, peace that rises triumphant over war, and justice that proves more powerful than greed.”
    ― Fred Rogers
    tags: friends, friendship, love, peace
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  • #54
    Roberto Bolaño
    “Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths, our fears, our hopes for peace.”
    ― Roberto Bolano
    tags: death, fear, hope, peace, reading, sex
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  • #55
    Paulo Coelho
    “Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, Brida
    tags: advice, experience, life, variety, wine
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  • #56
    “And the sun and the moon sometimes argue over who will tuck me in at night. If you think I am having more fun than anyone on this planet, you are absolutely correct.”
    ― Hafiz
    tags: fun, moon, sun
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  • #57
    Anne Rivers Siddons
    “Didn't I say I'd always be your same stars? If you get to missing me, just look up.”
    ― Anne Rivers Siddons, Fault Lines
    tags: love, missing, parted, remembering
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  • #58
    Truman Capote
    “Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.”
    ― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories
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  • #59
    Clare Boothe Luce
    “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
    ― Clare Boothe Luce
    tags: elegance, misattributed-to-apple, misattributed-to-da-vinci, misattributed-to-steve-jobs, simplicity, sophistication
    1667 likes

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  • #60
    Natalie Babbitt
    “Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.”
    ― Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting
    tags: elegance, philosophy, simplicity
    2335 likes

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  • #61
    Audrey Hepburn
    “You can always tell what kind of a person a man really thinks you are by the earrings he gives you.”
    ― Audrey Hepburn
    tags: gifts
    699 likes



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