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    Lemony Snicket
    “Miracles are like meatballs, because nobody can exactly agree on what they are made of, where they come from, or how often they should appear.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, The Carnivorous Carnival
    tags: humor-miracles
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    Oscar Wilde
    “A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: belief, death, ideals, martyr, truth
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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    Vincent van Gogh
    “Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.”
    ― Vincent Van Gogh
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    Oscar Wilde
    “It is not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need of love.
    It is when we are wounded by our own hands that love should come to cure us.
    Else what use is love at all?”
    ― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband
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    André Brink
    “My library was -- all libraries are -- a place of ultimate refuge, a wild and sacred space where meanings are manageable precisely because they aren't binding; and where illusion is comfortingly real.”
    ― André Brink
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    Jean Cocteau
    “I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.”
    ― Jean Cocteau
    tags: cats, home
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    Anna Quindlen
    “Sometimes I remind myself that I almost skipped the party, that I almost went to a different college, that the whim of a minute could have changed everything and everyone. Our lives, so settled, so specific, are built on happenstance.”
    ― Anna Quindlen, Every Last One
    tags: anna-quindlen
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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  • #10
    Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
    “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
    tags: books, reading
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    Albert Camus
    “Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: human-nature, man, mankind, philosophy
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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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  • #13
    Charles Bukowski
    “You have my soul and I have your money”
    ― Charles Bukowski
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    Markus Zusak
    “I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
    tags: power-of-words
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: fate, history
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    Maggie Stiefvater
    “Gansey's partying with his mother," Ronan said. He smelled like beer. "And Noah's fucking dead. But Parrish is here.”
    ― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys
    tags: ronan-lynch
    567 likes

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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
    ― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein
    tags: change, human
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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands - two equally harmful disciplines.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir
    tags: feminism, gender-equality, simeone-de-beauvoir, the-mandarins
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    Daniel Defoe
    “It is never too late to be wise.”
    ― Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
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    Jane Austen
    “I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.”
    ― Jane Austen, Persuasion
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    René Char
    “Impose ta chance, serre ton bonheur et va vers ton risque. À te regarder, ils s'habitueront.”
    ― René Char
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    René Char
    “discipline comme tu saignes!”
    ― René Char
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: humor, taste
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    Samuel Johnson
    “Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.”
    ― Samuel Johnson
    tags: night
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  • #25
    L.P. Hartley
    “The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”
    ― L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between
    tags: history, memories, past
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    Yosa Buson
    “Chaque pétale qui tombe
    Vieillit
    Les branches du prunier”
    ― Yosa Buson, Printemps
    tags: pétale, temps, vieillesse
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    Marguerite de Navarre
    “People pretend not to like grapes when the vines are too high for them to reach.”
    ― Marguerite de Navarre
    tags: achievement, effort, french, grapes, medieval, troubador, vines
    147 likes

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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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    Raymond Radiguet
    “Nous étions des enfants debout sur une chaise, fiers de dépasser d’une tête les grandes personnes. Les circonstances nous hissaient, mais nous restions incapables. Et si du fait même de notre inexpérience, certaines choses compliquées nous paraissaient toutes simples, des choses toutes simples, par contre, devenaient des obstacles.”
    ― Raymond Radiguet
    tags: le-diable-au-corps, raymond-radiguet
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  • #30
    Albert Cohen
    “Ma souffrance est ma vengeance contre moi-même.”
    ― Albert Cohen, Book of My Mother
    tags: pain, self-loathing, shame
    10 likes



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