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    Jules Verne
    “The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.”
    ― Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days
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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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    Alexandre Dumas
    “Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.”
    ― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
    tags: adventure
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    Alexandre Dumas
    “Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.”
    ― Alexandre Dumas
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    Alexandre Dumas
    “How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure.”
    ― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
    tags: escape, prison, prison-escape
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    Alexandre Dumas
    “It's necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.”
    ― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
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    Alexandre Dumas
    “You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.”
    ― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
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    Alexandre Dumas
    “A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.”
    ― Alexandre Dumas
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    Alexandre Dumas
    “Now I'd like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!”
    ― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
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    Alexandre Dumas
    “If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself. ”
    ― Alexandre Dumas
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata
    tags: beauty, delusion, goodness, lies, self-deception, wisdom
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “If you want to be happy, be.”
    ― Leo Tolstory
    tags: inspirational
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking...”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: honesty, independent-thought
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: feel, feelings
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Boredom: the desire for desires.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: truth
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession
    tags: conscience, majority, right-and-wrong, truth, wrong
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: on-writing, storytelling
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Every heart has its own skeletons.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
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    Thomas Paine
    “It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man.”
    ― Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
    tags: belief, bible, cruel, cruelty, murder, rapine, the-bible
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    Herman Melville
    “A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.”
    ― Herman Melville, Pierre; or, The Ambiguities
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    Herman Melville
    “I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.”
    ― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
    tags: adventure, adventuresome, adventurous, just-do-it, sailing, travel, travels
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    Lewis Carroll
    “No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
    tags: adventure, explanations, patience, storytelling
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    Herman Melville
    “I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.”
    ― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
    tags: adventure, laughter
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    Joseph Chilton Pearce
    “To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.”
    ― Joseph Chilton Pearce
    tags: courage, creativity, inaction, just-do-it
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    George Eliot
    “Adventure is not outside man; it is within.”
    ― George Eliot
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    “I feel the need to endanger myself every so often.”
    ― Tim Daly
    tags: adventure, challenge, danger, excitement, self, skiing, sports
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    George Carlin
    “The planet is fine. The people are fucked.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: funny, humanity, humor
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    John Wilmot
    “God bless our good and gracious King,
    Whose promise none relies on;
    Who never said a foolish thing,
    Nor ever did a wise one.”
    ― John Wilmot, The Complete Poems
    tags: politics, president, royalty
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    Philip Pullman
    “After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
    ― Philip Pullman
    tags: books, needs, stories, storytelling, writing
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