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    Walt Whitman
    “What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.”
    ― Walt Whitman
    tags: poetry
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    Frederick Douglass
    “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
    ― Frederick Douglass
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    Franz Kafka
    “So then you’re free?’
    ‘Yes, I’m free,’ said Karl, and nothing seemed more worthless than his freedom.”
    ― Franz Kafka, Amerika
    tags: freedom
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    Edith Wharton
    “What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath.”
    ― Edith Wharton
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    C.S. Lewis
    “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
    tags: hell, individualism, irony, selfishness, tea
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    Pearl Cleage
    “Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and soft music. Solitude, quality solitude, is an assertion of self-worth, because only in the stillness can we hear the truth of our own unique voices.”
    ― Pearl Cleage, Deals With the Devil: And Other Reasons to Riot
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”
    ― Rumi
    tags: inspirational
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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  • #10
    “Don't cry over someone who wouldn't cry over you.”
    ― Lauren Conrad
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    Jeanette Winterson
    “Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it. Those who do not do it, think of it as a cousin of stamp collecting, a sister of the trophy cabinet, bastard of a sound bank account and a weak mind.”
    ― Jeanette Winterson
    tags: books, obsession
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    Mark Twain
    “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: misattributed-mark-twain, truth
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Poets treat their experiences shamelessly: they exploit them”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “And the rest is rust and stardust.”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
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    I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
    “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
    ― Jorge Luis Borges
    tags: books, library
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    Leigh Bardugo
    “No mourners. No funerals. Among them, it passed for 'good luck.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
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    Craig D. Lounsbrough
    “An exceptional future can only be built on the transformation of the mess I’ve made, not the elimination of it.”
    ― Craig D. Lounsbrough
    tags: alter, change, future, mess, mistakes, new-year, new-years-day, transformation, transformational
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    T.S. Eliot
    “For last year's words belong to last year's language
    And next year's words await another voice.”
    ― T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
    tags: language, new-year, voice, words
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    Colleen Hoover
    “If you aren't on Goodreads, you should be. I've said it before, it's like Facebook for readers on crack.”
    ― Colleen Hoover
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    Sara Naveed
    “I’m . . . accustomed to being alone. There are times when alone is the best place to be. I enjoy my own company.”
    ― Sara Naveed, Our Story Ends Here
    tags: alone, intense, loneliness, love, ourstoryendshere, romance, romantic, saranaveed, solitude
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