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    Vicente Huidobro
    “¿Podéis creerlo? La tumba tiene más poder que los ojos de la amada.”
    ― Vicente Huidobro, Altazor
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    Gilberto Owen
    “Ya no va a dolerme el mar,
    porque conocí la fuente.”
    ― Gilberto Owen, Obras
    tags: inspirational, journey, peace, strength
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    I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
    “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
    ― Jorge Luis Borges
    tags: books, library
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    José Martí
    “Dicen que murió de frío. Yo sé que murió de amor.”
    ― José Martí, Obra poética
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    Franz Kafka
    “I am free and that is why I am lost.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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    Xavier Velasco
    “Si al final mis problemas no eran solubles, cuando menos serían adulterables.”
    ― Xavier Velasco, Éste que ves
    tags: cynical, humor, problems
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    Fernando Pessoa
    “Ser poeta não é uma ambição minha. É a minha maneira de estar sózinho.”
    ― Fernando Pessoa, Poesias
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    Chuck Klosterman
    “Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.”
    ― Chuck Klosterman, Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
    tags: art, love, profound
    3554 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books-reading
    4806 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “The secret to getting ahead is getting started.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: starting, working
    2231 likes

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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
    27257 likes

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  • #13
    Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
    “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
    tags: books, reading
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    Doris Lessing
    “There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.”
    ― Doris May Lessing, Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949
    tags: fiction, on-fiction, storytelling, truth, truth-telling
    751 likes

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    Margaret Mitchell
    “Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.”
    ― Margaret Mitchell
    tags: expectation, hope, life
    5635 likes

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    Anaïs Nin
    “We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
    ― Anaïs Nin
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    Henry Adams
    “A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.”
    ― Henry Adams
    887 likes

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    Frank Herbert
    “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: bene-gesserit, fear, litany-against-fear, motivational, scifi
    16744 likes

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    Arthur Miller
    “Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.”
    ― Arthur Miller
    1264 likes

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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
    tags: life
    11454 likes

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    Daniel Glattauer
    “Escribir es como besar, pero sin labios. Escribir es besar con la mente.”
    ― Daniel Glattauer, Gut gegen Nordwind
    tags: contra-el-viento-del-norte, daniel-glattauer, español, glattauer, spanish
    196 likes

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    Terry Pratchett
    “The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Diggers
    tags: humor, open-mind, thinking
    21437 likes

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    Marguerite Yourcenar
    “This city belongs to ghosts, to murderers, to sleepwalkers. Where are you, in what bed, in what dream?”
    ― Marguerite Yourcenar
    tags: pessimism, philosophy
    52 likes

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    Henry Ward Beecher
    “Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
    ― Henry Ward Beecherr
    tags: books, humor
    7428 likes

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  • #25
    Shelby Foote
    “A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.”
    ― Shelby Foote
    1335 likes

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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein
    tags: cats, humor, women
    28795 likes

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    Isabel Allende
    “The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything.”
    ― Isabel Allende, City of the Beasts
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    Alfred de Musset
    “How glorious it is – and also how painful – to be an exception. ”
    ― Alfred de Musset
    1159 likes

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  • #29
    Tamora Pierce
    “Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.”
    ― Tamora Pierce, Lady Knight
    2487 likes

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  • #30
    Francis Bacon
    “A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”
    ― Francis Bacon, The Essays
    tags: opportunity, perseverance, wisdom
    1408 likes

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    Fernando Pessoa
    “Não sou nada.
    Nunca serei nada.
    Não posso querer ser nada.
    À parte isso, tenho em mim todos os sonhos do mundo.”
    ― Fernando Pessoa, Tabacaria e Outros Poemas
    tags: dreams, nothingness
    450 likes



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