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#1

“Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”
― Henry James

tags: beauty, english, literature, summer

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#2

“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”
― Pablo Picasso

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#3

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
― James Baldwin

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#4

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

tags: future, life, past, reflection, understanding

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#5

“We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Bingo Palace

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#6

“A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.”
― Shelby Foote

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#7

“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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#8

“I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.”
― Jimi Hendrix, The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold as Love

tags: death, life

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#9

“Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you're a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you're nobody-but-yourself.”
― e.e. cummings

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#10

“That perfect tranquility of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.”
― Aphra Behn, The Lucky Chance

tags: library, reading

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#11

“It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

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#12

“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
― Marcel Proust

tags: gratitude, happiness

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#13

“I not only use all the brains that I have, but all I can borrow.”
― Woodrow Wilson

tags: brains, intelligence

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#14

“Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.”
― Edith Sitwell

tags: comfort, home, winter

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#15

“Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.”
― Samuel Butler

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#16

“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”
― Mortimer J. Adler

tags: books, reading

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#17

“Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
― L.M. Montgomery

tags: beginnings, fresh-start, inspirational, mistake, mistakes, new-day, start-over, tomorrow

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#18

“Hope
Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,
Whispering 'it will be happier'...”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson

tags: happiness, hope, inspirational, new-year

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#19

“Never laugh at live dragons.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: dragons, wisdom

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#20

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

tags: books, thought

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#21

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace

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#22

“Some people have a way with words, and other people...oh, uh, not have way.”
― Steve Martin

tags: humor, words

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#23

“Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
― A.A. Milne

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#24

“Time is the longest distance between two places.”
― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

tags: distance, time

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#25

“When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

tags: heart, mind

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#26

“The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status, or ethnic background, is that, deep down inside, we all believe that we are above-average drivers.”
― Dave Barry, Dave Barry Turns 50

tags: driving, human-beings, united

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#27

“Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.”
― Ezra Pound

tags: books, light, reading

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#28

“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
― Lloyd Alexander

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#29

“To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality.”
― John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice

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#30

“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
― Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader

tags: advice-for-daily-living, books, reader, reading, speaking, thinking, wisdom

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