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“The inclination to exchange thoughts with one another is probably an original impulse of our nature. If I be in pain I wish to let you know it, and to ask your sympathy and assistance; and my pleasurable emotions also, I wish to communicate to, and share with you. —ABRAHAM LINCOLN, February 11, 1859”
― Joshua Wolf Shenk, Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness

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“She looked at them with shining eyes. Her chin went up. She said:
"You regard it as impossible that a sinner should be struck down
by the wrath of God! I do not!"
The judge stroked his chin. He murmured in a slightly ironic voice:
"My dear lady, in my experience of ill-doing, Providence leaves the work
of conviction and chastisement to us mortals-and the process is often
fraught with difficulties. There are no short cuts.”
― Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None

tags: crimes, justice, punishment, relegion

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#3

“We all saw it, and he did the same thing we all did - we pretended it was none of our business and that it would go away on its own. We told ourselves we were just seeing a tiny piece of Agnes's life. And if you only get a small piece of something, it's much easier to convince yourself it's better when you're not around, and then choose to ignore it.”
― Roseanne Cheng, Edge the Bare Garden

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#4

“Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.”
― Steven Spielberg

tags: education, reading

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#5

“I wish to weep
but sorrow is
stupid.
I wish to believe
but belief is a
graveyard.”
― Charles Bukowski, What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire

tags: belief, life, perseverance, pessimism, sorrow, weeping

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#6

“I opened a book and in I strode. Now nobody can find me.”
― Julia Donaldson

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#7

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”
― Jim Henson

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#8

“The wise wait for their moment, but never let it pass.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Half a King

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#9

“To err is human, to forgive, divine.”
― Alexander Pope, An Essay On Criticism

tags: failure, forgiveness, humanity, mistakes

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#10

“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”
― Nora Ephron

tags: reading

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#11

“No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away...”
― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

tags: death, humourous

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#12

“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

tags: breath, existence

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#13

“My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.”
― Patricia Highsmith

tags: conversations, distractions, imagination, quiet, solitude

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#14

“Much Madness Is Divinest Sense

Much Madness is divinest Sense —
To a discerning Eye —
Much Sense — the starkest Madness —
'Tis the Majority
In this, as All, prevail —
Assent — and you are sane —
Demur — you're straightway dangerous —
And handled with a Chain —”
― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

tags: conformity, madness, poetry, sanity

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#15

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism

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#16

“The story of a poor man’s life is written on his body, in a sharp pen.”
― Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger

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#17

“In some Native languages the term for plants translates to “those who take care of us.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

tags: care, plants

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#18

“The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock—shock is a worn-out word—but astonish.”
― Terry Southern

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#19

“We tell each other stories in order to live.”
― Joan Didion

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#20

“Strange thoughts brew in your heart when you spend too much time with old books.”
― Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger

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#21

“Science results from a profoundly social process. The common portrayal—that science emerges from a solitary isolated genius, always laboring alone, not owing anything to anyone—is simply wrong.”
― Michael S. Gazzaniga, Tales from Both Sides of the Brain: A Life in Neuroscience

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#22

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
― Charles W. Eliot

tags: books, friends, reading, teachers

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#23

“Home is where they want you to stay longer.”
― Stephen King, Revival

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#24

“Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.”
― Hannah Arendt

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#25

“Whenever she felt the weight of those bonds, she wished she could take her sharpest knife and cut them free, carve out the part of her that wanted, that cared, that warmed at the feeling”
― V.E. Schwab, A Gathering of Shadows

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#26

“Wake early, take more!”
― Julie Elise Landry, Bless the Skies

tags: dark, dark-fantasy, early, early-bird-gets-the-worm, fantasy, fantasy-fiction, take, take-more, thief, thieves, wake, wake-early

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#27

“Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation. You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you. There”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

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#28

“What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

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#29

“I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.”
― Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text

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#30

“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

tags: love, poetry

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