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    It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our
    “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
    tags: abilities
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
    tags: close, extremely, foer, incredibly, jonathan, living, loud, safran
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn't it such a relief to have somebody say that?”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., A Man Without a Country
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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
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “In bed that night I invented a special drain that would be underneath every pillow in New York, and would connect to the reservoir. Whenever people cried themselves to sleep, the tears would all go to the same place, and in the morning the weatherman could report if the water level of the Reservoir of Tears had gone up or down, and you could know if New York is in heavy boots.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
    tags: love
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    John Green
    “When adults say, "Teenagers think they are invincible" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail.”
    ― John Green, Looking for Alaska
    tags: invincible, teenagers, teens
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    John Green
    “The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
    ― John Green, Looking for Alaska
    tags: compassion, life, suffering
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    John Green
    “You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.”
    ― John Green
    tags: breaking-up, lost-love
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    John Green
    “So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.”
    ― John Green, Looking for Alaska
    tags: johngreen, lookingforalaska
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    Sarah Dessen
    “There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”
    ― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
    tags: love
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “Just because you're an atheist, that doesn't mean you wouldn't love for things to have reasons for why they are.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
    tags: books
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    Stephen Chbosky
    “So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: the-perks-of-being-a-wallflower
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    Albert Camus
    “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: seasons, strength, trial, triumph
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    Albert Camus
    “You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, happiness, meaning-of-life
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    Albert Camus
    “Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: humanity, life, mankind, mortality
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    Albert Camus
    “Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    Albert Camus
    “The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: civilization, writers, writing
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    Albert Camus
    “An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: intellectuals, intelligence, philosophy, scholars
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. I am then asked if I know of any artists who pulled that off. I reply, 'The Beatles did'.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Timequake
    tags: beatles, purpose-of-art, rock, rock-n-roll, the-beatles
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Sometimes I think it is a great mistake to have matter that can think and feel. It complains so. By the same token, though, I suppose that boulders and mountains and moons could be accused of being a little too phlegmatic.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    tags: humor, thinking
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    tags: bokonon
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
    tags: cold, dichotomy, politics, turkey
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “We are what we imagine ourselves to be. ”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: inspiration
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia
    tags: faith, fool, humor, self-confidence, self-irony
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    Miranda July
    “I laughed and said, Life is easy. What I meant was, Life is easy with you here, and when you leave, it will be hard again.”
    ― Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You
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