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#1

“I confused things with their names: that is belief.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, The Words: The Autobiography of Jean-Paul Sartre

tags: belief, names

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#2

“All he had was nothing, but that was something, and now it had been taken away.”
― Terry Pratchett

tags: discworld, humor, humour, nothing

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#3

“It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.”
― W.C. Fields

tags: labels, names

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#4

“It's not a real name," she says. "Not one that he's carried with him always. It's one he wears like his hat. So he can take it off if he wants.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

tags: identity, names

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#5

“Our names were made for us in another century.”
― Richard Brautigan

tags: ancestry, freedom, names, time

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#6

“Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.”
― T.S. Eliot

tags: life, poetry

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#7

“I shouldn't have to be a liar to make someone love me. I shouldn't be so afraid of losing someone that I'll do anything to make them stay.”
― Deb Caletti, The Six Rules of Maybe

tags: love

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#8

“Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

tags: goodbye

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#9

“No more words. We know them all, all the words that should not be said. But you have made my world more perfect.”
― Terry Pratchett, Nation

tags: goodbye

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#10

“This is a long goodbye, yet not time enough. I have no aptitude for this. I cannot learn this. I would hold on, and hold on, until my hands clutch at emptiness.”
― Juliet Marillier, Son of the Shadows

tags: death, goodbye

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#11

“…we're twins, and so we love each other more than other people…”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Men

tags: little-men, louisa-may-alcott, twins

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#12

“Because they knew each other's thoughts, they even quarrelled without speaking.”
― Bruce Chatwin, On the Black Hill

tags: twins

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#13

“Her hands flew to her mouth. 'Are we even twins?'
Josh rested his hand on her shoulder and brought his forehead to rest against hers, strands of their blond hair mingling. 'I will always be your brother, Sophie. I will always look after you.”
― Michael Scott, The Enchantress

tags: family, family-love, loyalty, protection, siblings, twins

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#14

“But I was used to finding something deadly in things that attracted me; there was always something deadly lurking in anything I wanted, anything I loved. And if it wasn't there, as for example with Phineas, then I put it there myself.”
― John Knowles, A Separate Peace

tags: a-separate-peace

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#15

“But if you tame me, then we
shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I
shall be unique in all the world.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

tags: me, need, world, you

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#16

“My father said that love at first sight should send you running, if you know what's good for you. It's your dark pieces having instant recognition with their dark pieces, he says. You're an idiot if you think it means you've met your soul mate. So I was an idiot.”
― Deb Caletti, Stay

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#17

“One need not be a Chamber — to be Haunted —
One need not be a House —
The Brain has Corridors — surpassing
Material Place —”
― Emily Dickinson, Selected Poems

tags: poetry

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#18

“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

tags: cost, life, price, time, value

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