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    Erich Maria Remarque
    “But now, for the first time, I see you are a man like me. I thought of your hand-grenades, of your bayonet, of your rifle; now I see your wife and your face and our fellowship. Forgive me, comrade. We always see it too late. Why do they never tell us that you are poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours, and that we have the same fear of death, and the same dying and the same agony--Forgive me, comrade; how could you be my enemy?”
    ― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
    tags: war
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    Erich Maria Remarque
    “I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another.”
    ― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
    tags: war, ww1
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    Erich Maria Remarque
    “We are not youth any longer. We don’t want to take the world by storm. We are fleeing. We fly from ourselves. From our life. We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces.”
    ― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
    tags: war, youth
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    Neil Gaiman
    “It's like the people who believe they'll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn't work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. If you see what I mean.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
    tags: neil-gaiman, the-graveyard-book
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    Neil Gaiman
    “You're always you, and that don't change, and you're always changing, and there's nothing you can do about it.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
    tags: change
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    Neil Gaiman
    “You're alive, Bod. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything. If you can change the world, the world will change. Potential. Once you're dead, it's gone. Over. You've made what you've made, dreamed your dream, written your name. You may be buried here, you may even walk. But that potential is finished.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
    tags: inspirational, potential
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Sleep my little baby-oh
    Sleep until you waken
    When you wake you'll see the world
    If I'm not mistaken...

    Kiss a lover
    Dance a measure,
    Find your name
    And buried treasure...

    Face your life
    Its pain,
    Its pleasure,
    Leave no path untaken.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
    tags: awakening, choice, dance, identity, individuality, life, love, name, pain, pleasure, sleep, treasure
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    Orson Scott Card
    “In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them.... I destroy them.”
    ― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
    tags: enemy, epiphany, hate, love, understanding
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    Orson Scott Card
    “Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.”
    ― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
    tags: identity, pretend
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    Orson Scott Card
    “If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.”
    ― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
    tags: hard-work, inaction, just-do-it, success, team
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    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
    “I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose.”
    ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote de La Mancha, Vol. 1
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    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
    “There is no book so bad...that it does not have something good in it.”
    ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
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    Robert Graves
    “To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.”
    ― Robert Graves
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can’t help re-living such moments as these in my dreams, for such moments are something I have very rarely experienced. I am going to dream about you the whole night, the whole week, the whole year.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights
    tags: dream, dreamer, fyodor-dostoyevsky, memories, white-nights
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “It was a wonderful night, such a night as is only possible when we are young, dear reader.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
    tags: night, youth
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Oh, how unbearable is a happy person sometimes!”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights
    tags: happiness
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “It suddenly seemed to me that I was lonely, that everyone was forsaking me and going away from me.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky , White Nights
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “But how could you live and have no story to tell?”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
    tags: life, story
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
    tags: happiness, lasting, pleasure, temporary
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    Anthony Burgess
    “When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.”
    ― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
    tags: choice, life, man
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    Anthony Burgess
    “Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?”
    ― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
    tags: dystopia
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    Anthony Burgess
    “But what I do I do because I like to do.”
    ― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
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    Anthony Burgess
    “Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.”
    ― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
    tags: freedom-of-choice, good-and-evil
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    Victor Hugo
    “He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
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    Victor Hugo
    “What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul”
    ― Victor Hugo , Les Misérables
    tags: love, soul, stars
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    Victor Hugo
    “It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
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    Victor Hugo
    “Those who do not weep, do not see.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
    tags: crying, inspirational, sorrow
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    Victor Hugo
    “You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
    tags: honesty
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    Victor Hugo
    “Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
    tags: education
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    Victor Hugo
    “He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
    tags: les-miserables-books
    718 likes



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