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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
    119371 likes

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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
    78523 likes

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  • #4
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality
    69842 likes

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  • #6
    John Green
    “As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: love
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    Bil Keane
    “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
    ― Bill Keane
    tags: attributed-no-source, hope, inspirational, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt, past, present, widely-misattributed
    42822 likes

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    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
    tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables & Reflections
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  • #10
    Lance Armstrong
    “Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.”
    ― Lance Armstrong Sally Jenkins, Every Second Counts
    tags: cancer, failure, inspiration, inspirational, pain, quitting
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  • #11
    Woody Allen
    “I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
    ― Woody Allen
    tags: death, fear, humor, life
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    Jimi Hendrix
    “I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.”
    ― Jimi Hendrix, The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold as Love
    tags: death, life
    17167 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: death, life
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    J.K. Rowling
    “I DON'T CARE!" Harry yelled at them, snatching up a lunascope and throwing it into the fireplace. "I'VE HAD ENOUGH, I'VE SEEN ENOUGH, I WANT OUT, I WANT IT TO END, I DON'T CARE ANYMORE!"
    "You do care," said Dumbledore. He had not flinched or made a single move to stop Harry demolishing his office. His expression was calm, almost detached. "You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
    tags: ache, death, dumbledore, harry-potter, hurt, life, pain
    8822 likes

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    Markus Zusak
    “It kills me sometimes, how people die.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
    tags: death
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    Markus Zusak
    “Even death has a heart.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
    tags: death, life
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  • #17
    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time.”
    ― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak
    tags: death, inspirational, voice
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    Rick Riordan
    “Don't feel bad, I'm usually about to die.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth
    tags: death, greek, humor, mythology, percy-jackson, sorry
    4205 likes

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    Jo Nesbø
    “Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living.”
    ― Jo Nesbo
    tags: death, depression, despair, life
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    Rick Yancey
    “We'd stared into the face of Death, and Death blinked first. You'd think that would make us feel brave and invincible. It didn't.”
    ― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave
    tags: alien, apocalypse, cassie, death, fiction, horror, paranormal, post-apocalyptic, science-fiction, survival, young-adult
    663 likes

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  • #21
    Albert Camus
    “What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.”
    ― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
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  • #22
    Jeffrey Eugenides
    “In the end, it wasn't death that surprised her but the stubbornness of life.”
    ― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
    tags: death, life
    857 likes

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  • #23
    Haruki Murakami
    “People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
    tags: death, memories
    695 likes

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  • #24
    Horace Mann
    “Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.”
    ― Horace Mann
    tags: accomplishment, achievement, death, humanity, victory
    559 likes

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  • #25
    Arthur Golden
    “The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.”
    ― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
    tags: death, hope
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    H. Rider Haggard
    “Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.”
    ― H. Rider Haggard, She
    tags: after-death, death, forget, forgetting, immortality, life, live-forever, mortality, sleep
    960 likes

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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena
    tags: attachment, death, loss, worth
    1568 likes

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  • #28
    James Patterson
    “The funny thing about facing imminent death is that it really snaps everything else into perspective.”
    ― James Patterson, The Angel Experiment
    tags: death, understanding
    933 likes

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  • #29
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: beauty, death, poetry, women
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    Rick Riordan
    “Delaying death is one of my favorite hobbies”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena
    tags: attacked, death, delaying, humor, leo, the-mark-of-athena
    919 likes



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