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#1

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus

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#2

“Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.”
― Maria Montessori

tags: imagination

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#3

“Keep on truckin'”
― R. Crumb

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#4

“The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.”
― Jane Addams

tags: humanity, inequality, rights, security, society

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#5

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: bilbo, journey, lost, quest, travel, wander

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#6

“The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.”
― Katherine Mansfield

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#7

“We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.”
― Joni Mitchell

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#8

“Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?”
― Christopher Paolini

tags: books, reading

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#9

“Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

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#10

“I get a warm feeling among my books.”
― Anthony Powell

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#12

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
― Neil Gaiman

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#13

“We live for books.”
― Umberto Eco

tags: bibliophiles, book-lovers, books, reading

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#14

“I suspect the most we can hope for, and it's no small hope, is that we never give up, that we never stop giving ourselves permission to try to love and receive love.”
― Elizabeth Strout, Abide with Me

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#15

“I woke up thinking a very pleasant thought. There is lots left in the world to read.”
― Nicholson Baker, The Anthologist

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#16

“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

7576 likes

#17

“Over the river and through the wood
To grandfather's house we go”
― Lydia Maria Francis Child

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#18

“Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.”
― Charles M. Schulz

tags: humor, love

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#19

“The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.”
― Henry Miller

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#20

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

tags: books, writing

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#21

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
― Anais Nin

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#22

“Compassion is the basis of morality.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

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#23

“All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love.”
― Johnny Cash

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#24

“There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.”
― Irwin Shaw

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#25

“If you love what you do and are willing to do what it takes, it's within your reach. And it'll be worth every minute you spend alone at night, thinking and thinking about what it is you want to design or build. It'll be worth it, I promise.”
― Steve Wozniak

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#26

“These woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.”
― Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

tags: life

9165 likes

#27

“The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I was in a dream.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road: The Original Scroll

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#28

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
― E.E. Cummings

tags: attributed-no-source, courage

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#29

“Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.”
― Erica Jong

tags: courage, talent

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#30

“We went down into the silent garden. Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the hour of silence. Everything is transfixed, only the light moves.”
― Leonora Carrington

tags: dawn, light, silence

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#31

“The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.”
― William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads

tags: finale-of-middlemarch, tintern-abbey

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