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    Susanna Clarke
    “He understood for the first time that the world is not dumb at all, but merely waiting for someone to speak to it in a language it understands.”
    ― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
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    Haruki Murakami
    “Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.”
    ― Haruki Marukami
    tags: expectation
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    Haruki Murakami
    “What happens when people open their hearts?"
    "They get better.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
    tags: healing, vulnerability
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    Agatha Christie
    “I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
    ― Agatha Christie
    tags: inspirational
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    J.K. Rowling
    “It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
    tags: fear-unknown
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    Susanna Clarke
    “He gave her his heart. She took it and placed it quietly in the pocket of her gown. No one observed what she did.”
    ― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
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    J.K. Rowling
    “To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: death, dumbledore, harry, inspirational, philosophers-stone, ron, sorcerers-stone
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    E.M. Forster
    “The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.”
    ― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View
    tags: honesty, integrity, lies
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    Agatha Christie
    “Very few of us are what we seem.”
    ― Agatha Christie, The Man in the Mist
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
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    J.K. Rowling
    “The truth." Dumbledore sighed. "It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: truth
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.”
    ― J.K. Rowling
    tags: books
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    J.K. Rowling
    “It is my belief... that the truth is generally preferable to lies.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: truth-lies
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    J.K. Rowling
    “One can never have enough socks," said Dumbledore. "Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn't get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: albus-dumbledore, books, christmas, desire, family, joke, socks
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: acceptance, inspiration, inspirational, smart, understanding, wise
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    Stephen Chbosky
    “Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: change, life
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    Stephen Chbosky
    “I would die for you. But I won't live for you.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: love
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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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    Stephen Chbosky
    “I am very interested and fascinated how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: moi
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    Stephen Chbosky
    “And I guess I realized at that moment that I really did love her. Because there was nothing to gain, and that didn't matter.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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    Susanna Clarke
    “Time and I have quarrelled. All hours are midnight now. I had a clock and a watch, but I destroyed them both. I could not bear the way they mocked me.”
    ― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
    tags: insanity, madness, time
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    Susanna Clarke
    “There is nothing in the world so easy to explain as failure - it is, after all, what everybody does all the time.”
    ― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
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    Susanna Clarke
    “Houses, like people, are apt to become rather eccentric if left too much on their own; this house was the architectural equivalent of an old gentleman in a worn dressing-gown and torn slippers, who got up and went to bed at odd times of day, and who kept up a continual conversation with friends no one else could see.”
    ― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
    tags: 2004, eccentricity, solitude
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    Susanna Clarke
    “I have a scholar's love of silence and solitude. To sit and pass hour after hour in idle chatter with a roomful of strangers is to me the worst sort of torment.”
    ― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
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    Susanna Clarke
    “..The argument he was conducting with his neighbor as to whether the English magician had gone mad because he was a magician, or because he was English.”
    ― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
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    Susanna Clarke
    “Oh! And they read English novels! David! Did you ever look into an English novel? Well, do not trouble yourself. It is nothing but a lot of nonsense about girls with fanciful names getting married.”
    ― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
    tags: humour, literature, novels
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    Susanna Clarke
    “It is these black clothes," said Strange. "I am like a leftover piece of funeral, condemned to walk about the Town, frightening people into thinking of their own mortality.”
    ― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange y el señor Norrell
    tags: jonathan-strange-and-mr-norrell
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    Susanna Clarke
    “But when the fairy sang the whole world listened to him. Stephen felt clouds pause in their passing; he felt sleeping hills shift and murmur; he felt cold mists dance. He understood for the first time that the world is not dumb at all, but merely waiting for someone to speak to it in a language it understands. In the fairy’s song the earth recognized the names by which it called itself.”
    ― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
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    Susanna Clarke
    “It is curious and we magicians collect curiosities, you know.”
    ― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
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    Susanna Clarke
    “I mean that two of any thing is a most uncomfortable number. One may do as he pleases. Six may get along well enough. But two must always struggle for mastery. Two must always watch each other. The eyes of all the world will be on two, uncertain which of them to follow.”
    ― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
    tags: rivalry
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