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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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  • #3
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
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    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: charles-bayard-mitchell
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  • #5
    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor
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  • #6
    “Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.”
    ― Paul Terry
    tags: exercise, humor, laziness, misattributed-to-hutchins
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  • #7
    “If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.”
    ― Joan Powers, Pooh's Little Instruction Book
    tags: friendship, misattributed-a-a-milne
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    J.K. Rowling
    “It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default.”
    ― J.K. Rowling
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    Gayle Forman
    “Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.”
    ― Gayle Forman, If I Stay
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    Gayle Forman
    “I realize now that dying is easy. Living is hard.”
    ― Gayle Forman, If I Stay
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    Gayle Forman
    “I'm not sure this is a world I belong in anymore. I'm not sure that I want to wake up.”
    ― Gayle Forman, If I Stay
    tags: lost, love
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  • #12
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
    tags: lost-innocence, memories
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    T.S. Eliot
    “To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.”
    ― T.S. Eliot, The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism
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    William Blake
    “To see a World in a Grain of Sand
    And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
    Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
    And Eternity in an hour.”
    ― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence
    tags: inspirational, wonder
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    Rita Mae Brown
    “Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.”
    ― Rita Mae Brown, Riding Shotgun
    tags: love
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Short cuts make long delays.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: humour, life-lesson, pippin, proverbs, shortcuts
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
    tags: first-sentence, opening-lines
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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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    Dylan Thomas
    “Do not go gentle into that good night.
    Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
    ― Dylan Thomas, In Country Sleep, and Other Poems
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    Hans Christian Andersen
    “But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.”
    ― Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid
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  • #22
    Charlie Chaplin
    “Life is a beautiful magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.”
    ― Charles Chaplin
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    Stephanie Perkins
    “His eyes lock on mine."Anna,I promise that I will never leave you."
    My heart pounds in response.And Étienne knows it,because he takes my hand and holds it against his chest,to show me how hard his heart is pounding,too.”
    ― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss
    tags: anna, anna-and-the-french-kiss, etienne, etienne-st-clair, st-clair
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    Stephanie Perkins
    “Welcome to Paris, Anna. I'm glad you've come.”
    ― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss
    tags: anna-and-the-french-kiss, british-boys, etienne-st-clair, romance, swoon
    124 likes

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    Pablo Neruda
    “I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
    in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
    ― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
    tags: love, poetry
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    Erin Morgenstern
    “The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.”
    ― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus
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    D.H. Lawrence
    “For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.”
    ― D.H. Lawrence
    tags: broken-heart, d-h-lawrence, love, pomegranate
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    Sinclair Lewis
    “We'd get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.”
    ― Sinclair Lewis
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    Pablo Neruda
    “Tonight I can write the saddest lines
    I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.”
    ― Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
    tags: love, sadness
    4108 likes

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  • #30
    George R.R. Martin
    “Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire, 5-Book Boxed Set: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, A Dance with Dragons
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  • #31
    Christa Wolf
    “Between killing and dying there's a third way: live”
    ― Christa Wolf, Kassandra
    1340 likes



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