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“You have to know what you stand for, not just what you stand against.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

“As fallible humans, we usually slip too far over one edge or the other - all wrath and judgment or all grace and love.”
― Eric Wilson, A Shred of Truth

“If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. ”
― Michael Crichton

“As it has been said:
Love and a cough
cannot be concealed.
Even a small cough.
Even a small love.”
― Anne Sexton

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
― Rudyard Kipling

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

“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
― Khaled Hosseini

“I am awaiting
perpetually and forever
a renaissance of wonder”
― Lawrence Ferlinghetti

“Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.”
― Vincent Van Gogh

“Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving. ”
― Alan Paton