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    Alan M. Turing
    “Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine.”
    ― Alan Turing
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: dance, music
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    Burton Raffel
    “I’ve never known fear; as a youth I fought/ In endless battles. I am old, now,/ But I will fight again, seek fame still,/ If the dragon hiding in his tower dares/ To face me”
    ― Burton Raffel, Beowulf
    tags: beowulf, fear, fearless
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    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “Language is a labyrinth of paths. You approach from one side and know your way about; you approach the same place from another side and no longer know your way about.”
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
    tags: language
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    William Shakespeare
    “This look of thine will hurl my soul from heaven.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Othello
    tags: heaven, love, soul
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    Samantha Shannon
    “Hope is the lifeblood of revolution. Without it, we are nothing but ash, waiting for the wind to take us.”
    ― Samantha Shannon, The Mime Order
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    Charles Dickens
    “Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.”
    ― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
    tags: seasons
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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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    Albert Einstein
    “In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity”
    ― Albert Einstein
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    Henry Miller
    “One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.”
    ― Henry Miller
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    Jimi Hendrix
    “Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens”
    ― Jimi Hendrix
    tags: wisdom
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Not all those who wander are lost.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: bilbo, journey, lost, quest, travel, wander
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    Neil Gaiman
    “A philosopher once asked, "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?" Pointless, really..."Do the stars gaze back?" Now, that's a question.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Stardust
    tags: gaze, human, stars
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    J.K. Rowling
    “The world isn’t split into good people and Death Eaters.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
    tags: black, choices, harry-potter, inside-us, light, sirius, sirius-black
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    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    “A Poet is a nightingale who sits in darkness, and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds; his auditors are as men entranced by the melody of an unseen musician, who feel that they are moved and softened, yet know not whence or why.”
    ― Percy Bysshe Shelley, A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “There is strong shadow where there is much light.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Götz von Berlichingen
    tags: enlightened, enlightenment, shadow
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism, self-awareness, self-determination, women
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    H.G. Wells
    “We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.”
    ― H.G. Wells
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    Italo Calvino
    “Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.”
    ― Italo Calvino
    tags: melancholy
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    Anaïs Nin
    “We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
    ― Anaïs Nin
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
    tags: diary, reading, sensational
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    John Berger
    “History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past”
    ― John Berger, Ways of Seeing
    tags: connections, future, history, mystification, past, present
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    Geoffrey Chaucer
    “The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.”
    ― Geoffrey Chaucer, The Parliament of Birds
    tags: creativity, learning, time
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    John Keats
    “Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter”
    ― John Keats, Ode On A Grecian Urn And Other Poems
    tags: philosophy, religion, science
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    Alexander Pope
    “To err is human, to forgive, divine.”
    ― Alexander Pope, An Essay On Criticism
    tags: failure, forgiveness, humanity, mistakes
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    William Shakespeare
    “Doubt thou the stars are fire;
    Doubt that the sun doth move;
    Doubt truth to be a liar;
    But never doubt I love.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Hamlet
    tags: love
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    R. Buckminster Fuller
    “I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.”
    ― R. Buckminster Fuller, I Seem to Be a Verb
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    T.S. Eliot
    “And I will show you something different from either
    Your shadow at morning striding behind you
    Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you
    I will show you fear in a handful of dust”
    ― T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land
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    Susanne K. Langer
    “The assignment of meanings [in music] is a shifting, kaleidoscopic play, probably below the threshold of consciousness, certainly outside the pale of discursive thinking. The imagination that responds to music is personal and associative and logical, tinged with affect, tinged with bodily rhythm, tinged with dream, but concerned with a wealth of formulations for its wealth of wordless knowledge, its whole knowledge of emotional and organic experience, of vital impulse, balance, conflict, the ways of living and dying and feeling.”
    ― Susanne K. Langer, Philosophy in a New Key: A Study in the Symbolism of Reason, Rite, and Art
    tags: aesthetics, music, philosophy, symbolism
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Even the smallest person can change the course of the future”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
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