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“I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough..”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

tags: love

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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

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#3

“We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

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#4

“The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again.”
― Robert Jordan

tags: fiction

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#5

“It’s a rare man who is taken for what he truly is.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

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#6

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

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#7

“He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.”
― Robert Jordan, New Spring

tags: drowning, expectations, jordan, lan, new-spring, overwhelmed, robert, wheel-of-time, wot

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#8

“Small men oft feel a need to prove their courage with unseemly boasts," he declared. "I doubt if he could kill a duck."
Tyrion shrugged. "Fetch the duck.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

tags: boast, courage, dance, dragons, duck, funny, humor, kill, martin, prove, small, soiaf, tyrion

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#9

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books

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#10

“Because in the end, the measure of a well-lived life is not titles or riches. It’s not even measured by the people we please, especially at the cost of our own souls. No, the true measure of a well-lived life is how well we love…and how well we are loved in return.”
― Cathy Maxwell, Four Dukes and a Devil

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#11

“We took away your art because we thought it would reveal your souls. Or to put it more finely, we did it to prove you had souls at all.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

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#12

“Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
― Terry Pratchett, Jingo

tags: humor, proverb

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#13

“I'm not young enough to know everything.”
― J.M. Barrie, The Admirable Crichton

tags: wisdom

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#14

“One of the things I've always liked about science fiction is the way it makes you think about things, and look at things from angles you'd never have thought about before.”
― Jo Walton, Among Others

tags: science-fiction

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#15

“...one can't avoid the storms and calamities of life, but one can at least find the right partner to face them with.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Tempt Me at Twilight

tags: kleypas, life, love, partner, problems, storms

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#16

“I will hate the man you choose because he isn't me, and love him if he makes you smile.”
― Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World

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#17

“I don't care what tomorrow brings, as long as I have you.”
― Molly Harper, The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf

tags: future, harper, love, molly, tomorrow

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#18

“I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

tags: mischief

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#19

“If you lose a man because you thought the best but were all wrong, then that's his fault. If you lose him because you thought the very worst and were wrong, then that's yours. And there's nothing so sad as missing out on love for lack of a little faith.”
― Jennifer Blake, The Rent-A-Groom

tags: lose, love, think, wrong

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#20

“Cassandra always hid when she read, though she never quite knew why. It was as if she couldn't shake the guilty suspicion that she was being lazy, that surrendering herself so completely to something so enjoyable must surely be wrong. But surrender she did. Let herself drop through the rabbit hole and into a tale of magic and mystery ...”
― Kate Morton, The Forgotten Garden

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#21

“We're all unique, just never in the ways we imagine.”
― Kate Morton, The Forgotten Garden

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#22

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

tags: life, love

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#23

“Love is not the absence of logic
but logic examined and recalculated
heated and curved to fit
inside the contours of the heart”
― Tammara Webber, Easy

tags: logic, love

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#24

“Love's about finding the one person who makes your heart complete. Who makes you a better person than you ever dreamed you could be. Its about looking in the eyes of your wife and knowing all the way to your bones that she's simply the best person you've ever known.”
― Julia Quinn, The Viscount Who Loved Me

tags: bridgerton, love, marriage

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#25

“God is not disillusioned with us. He never had any illusions to begin with.”
― Luis Palau

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#26

“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”
― William Arthur Ward

tags: realist

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#27

“Only the passionate were immortal, it seemed. If you fought, screwed, screamed, laughed, or otherwise experienced life intensely, for better or worse, you left a record. Those who lived a quiet, well-behaved, well-tempered life? Gone without a trace.”
― Magnus Flyte, City of Dark Magic

tags: legacy, life, passionate-life

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#28

“What do you know that you’re not telling me?"
"I don’t know what you know, so I don’t know what you don’t know.”
― Magnus Flyte, City of Dark Magic

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#29

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: age, fairytales, growing-up

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#30

“I know you aren't perfect. But it's a person's imperfections that make them perfect for someone else.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Lola and the Boy Next Door

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