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    Bertolt Brecht
    “Motto"

    In the dark times
    Will there also be singing?
    Yes, there will also be singing.
    About the dark times.”
    ― Bertolt Brecht
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    Aristotle
    “Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: happiness
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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
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    Lemony Snicket
    “Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
    ― Lemony Snicket
    tags: humor-wicked-reading
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    Daniel Defoe
    “It is never too late to be wise.”
    ― Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
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    “Do your thing and don't care if they like it.”
    ― Tina Fey, Bossypants
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    John Locke
    “Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
    ― John Locke
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    Emily Dickinson
    “Hope is the thing with feathers
    That perches in the soul
    And sings the tune without the words
    And never stops at all.”
    ― Emily Dickinson
    tags: feathers, hope, inspirational, souls
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    Lemony Snicket
    “Strange as it may seem, I still hope for the best, even though the best, like an interesting piece of mail, so rarely arrives, and even when it does it can be lost so easily.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, The Beatrice Letters
    tags: hope, mail
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    William Wilberforce
    “You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.”
    ― William Wilberforce
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    Sherwood Anderson
    “Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything.”
    ― Sherwood Anderson
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    Euripides
    “Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
    ― Euripides, The Bacchae
    tags: foolishness, rationality, reason, sense, stupidity, understanding
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    Doris Lessing
    “What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.”
    ― Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook
    tags: inspirational
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    Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
    “Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: eating-reading
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    William Blake
    “Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
    In the forests of the night,
    What immortal hand or eye
    Could frame thy fearful symmetry?”
    ― William Blake
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    Joseph Conrad
    “It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.”
    ― Joseph Conrad, An Outcast of the Islands
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    Gustave Flaubert
    “Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.”
    ― Gustave Flaubert
    tags: inspirational, life, work
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    Heinrich Heine
    “Where words leave off, music begins.”
    ― Heinrich Heine
    tags: music, power-of-music
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    Chris Abani
    “What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion.”
    ― Chris Abani
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    Abigail Van Buren
    “The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”
    ― Abigail Van Buren
    tags: character, life, wisdom
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    Sinclair Lewis
    “We'd get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.”
    ― Sinclair Lewis
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
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    Kate DiCamillo
    “Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart.”
    ― Kate DiCamillo, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
    tags: edward
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism, self-awareness, self-determination, women
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    E. Nesbit
    “There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read—unless it be reading while you eat. Amabel did both: they are not the same thing, as you will see if you think the matter over.”
    ― E. Nesbit, The Magic World
    tags: eat, eating, humor, luxury, reading
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    Georgette Heyer
    “As soon as one promises not to do something, it becomes the one thing above all others that one most wishes to do.”
    ― Georgette Heyer, Venetia
    tags: desires, promises
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    Honoré de Balzac
    “Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.”
    ― Honoré de Balzac
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    A.A. Milne
    “You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
    ― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
    tags: friendship, inspirational, pooh, winnie
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    François de La Rochefoucauld
    “If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.”
    ― François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims
    tags: criticism
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  • #30
    “If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. It transcends all barriers.”
    ― Ed Sullivan
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