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#1

“You don't choose your friends, they choose you, and you either reject them or you accept them without reservations.”
― Arturo Pérez-Reverte, The Flanders Panel

tags: chapter-i

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#2

“The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time.”
― Frank Miller

tags: frank-miller, hero, heroes

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#3

“I once wrestled with an angel. He won, but I learned a few things.”
― Arturo Perez-Reverte

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#4

“Because God and the devil could be one and the same thing, and everybody understood it in his own way.”
― Arturo Pérez-Reverte, El club Dumas

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#5

“This is the seashore. Neither land nor sea. It’s a place that does not exist.”
― Alessandro Baricco, Ocean Sea

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#6

“Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

tags: brain, mind

3734 likes

#7

“Being in the habit of saying "Thank you," of making sure that people receive attention so they know you value them, of not presuming that people will always be there--this is a good habit, regardless...make sure to give virtual and actual high-fives to those who rock and rock hard.”
― Sarah Wendell, Everything I Know About Love I Learned from Romance Novels

tags: appreciation, gratitude, romance

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#8

“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”
― James Baldwin

tags: parenting, role-models

3056 likes

#9

“Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.”
― Honoré de Balzac

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#10

“When you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”
― William Saroyan

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#11

“Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.”
― Victoria Holt

tags: experience, never-regret

488 likes

#12

“You do have a story inside you; it lies articulate and waiting to be written — behind your silence and your suffering.”
― Anne Rice

tags: anne-rice, pandora

2825 likes

#13

“In a time of destruction, create something.”
― Maxine Hong Kingston

3338 likes

#14

“The world is so strange that maybe it’s perfectly logical.”
― Beth Lisick

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#15

“It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.”
― Noël Coward, Blithe Spirit

tags: deceit, honesty, hypocrisy, morality, shock, top-8

3586 likes

#16

“I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: brotherhood-of-man, people, scout

3685 likes

#17

“Sometimes the sins you haven't committed are all you have left to hold onto.”
― David Sedaris, When You Are Engulfed in Flames

tags: humor

1588 likes

#18

“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”
― Steve Jobs

2919 likes

#19

“I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.”
― Katherine Anne Porter

1061 likes

#20

“I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: books-reading

7321 likes

#21

“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

tags: life

2915 likes

#22

“A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.”
― Astrid Lindgren

tags: books, children, children-s-literature

3115 likes

#23

“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: truth

6765 likes

#24

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

tags: books, writing

20724 likes

#25

“The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”
― Thomas Paine, A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal on the Affairs of North America

tags: education, experience, wisdom

3195 likes

#26

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

tags: life

109285 likes

#27

“The dead can survive as part of the lives of those that still live.”
― Kenzaburō Ōe, Hiroshima Notes

tags: death

1614 likes

#28

“I solemnly swear that I'm up to no good.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

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#29

“No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.”
― Elizabeth Peters

tags: amelia-peabody, men, women

3779 likes

#30

“I don't think there is any truth. There are only points of view. ”
― Allen Ginsberg

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