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“What is the meaning of it, Watson? said Holmes solemnly as he laid down the paper. "What object is served by this circle of misery and violence and fear? It must tend to some end, or else our universe is ruled by chance, which is unthinkable. But what end? There is the great standing perennial problem to which human reason is as far from an answer as ever.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Cardboard Box - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story

tags: meaning-of-life

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“The guardians of high culture will try to convince you that the arts belong only to a chosen few, but they are wrong and they are also annoying.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

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“Women create an idealized, hopeful vision for the future to inspire other women. Fiction and fantasy are the crucial first steps to changing the world.”
― Maya Rodale, Dangerous Books for Girls: The Bad Reputation of Romance Novels Explained

tags: fiction, novels, women

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“The best method, I believe, that can be adopted to correct a fondness for novels is to ridicule them; not indiscriminately, for then it would have little effect; but, if a judicious person, with some turn for humour, would read several to a young girl, and point out, both by tones and apt comparisons with pathetic incidents and heroic characters in history, how foolishly and ridiculously they caricatured human nature, just opinions might be substituted instead of romantic sentiments.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Woman

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#5

“If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

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#6

“An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: adventure, inconvenience, perspectives

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#7

“I would rather be a rebel than a slave.”
― Emmeline Pankhurst

tags: women

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#8

“No man chooses evil because it is evil; he just mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft

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#9

“It is obvious to you that the struggle will be an unequal one, but I shall make it - I shall make it as long as I have an ounce of strength left in me, or any life left in me.”
― Emmeline Pankhurst, My Own Story

tags: justice, politics, struggle, suffragettes, women

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#10

“Maybe I’m tired,” he said. “Maybe I’m tired of picking up life in bits and fistfuls and little drawstring bags. When you get to be as old as I am, there’s an appeal in the idea of seeing some business through from start to finish.”
― Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road: A Tale of Adventure

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#11

“Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, The Collected Letters

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#12

“adventures befall the unadventuresome as readily, if not as frequently, as the bold.”
― Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road: A Tale of Adventure

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#13

“Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.”
― Lewis Carroll , Alice in Wonderland

tags: alice-in-wonderland, introspection, self-discovery

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#14

“Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can.”
― Danny Kaye

tags: adventure, art, life

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#15

“Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions

tags: cheese, poetry

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#16

“Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: books, literature, on-fiction

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“Romance novels feature nuanced portrayals of female characters having adventures, making choices, and accepting themselves just as they are. When we say these stories are silly and unrealistic, we are telling young girls not to expect to be the heroines in their own real lives.”
― Maya Rodale, Dangerous Books for Girls: The Bad Reputation of Romance Novels Explained

tags: acceptance, empowerment, heroines, women, women-s-rights

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#18

“Psychologically, our reality derives from the stories we tell ourselves, at least the ones we believe.”
― Matthew D. Lieberman

tags: belief, reality, stories

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“Think of the billions of trillions of snowflakes, and the billions of trillions of hydrogen and oxygen molecules in every single one of them. It makes you wonder, doesn’t it, who wrote the laws for the wind and the rain, the snow and the dew? I’ve tried to work it out, but it makes my head spin.”
― Alan Bradley, I Am Half-Sick of Shadows

tags: design, nature, reality

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#20

“...it is contrary to reason and experience to suppose that there can be any real check to brutality, consistent with leaving the victim still in the power of the executioner.”
― John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women

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#21

“That the principle which regulates the existing social relations between the two sexes—the legal subordination of one sex to the other—is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement; and that it ought to be replaced by a principle of perfect equality, admitting no power or privilege on the one side, nor disability on the other.”
― John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women

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#22

“All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.”
― Joseph Campbell

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#23

“Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Have the patience to wait! Be still and allow the mud to settle.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

tags: patience, taoism, understand

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#24

“Those who don't know how to suffer are the worst off. There are times when the only correct thing we can do is to bear out troubles until a better day.”
― Deng Ming-Dao, Everyday Tao: Living with Balance and Harmony

tags: overcoming-obstacles, suffering, taoism

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#25

“Grappling with fate is like meeting an expert wrestler: to escape, you have to accept the fall when you are thrown. The only thing that counts is whether you get back up.”
― Deng Ming-Dao, Everyday Tao: Living with Balance and Harmony

tags: falling, fate, perseverance, taoism, wrestling

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#26

“The clouds above us join and separate,
The breeze in the courtyard leaves and returns.
Life is like that, so why not relax?
Who can stop us from celebrating?”
― Lu Yu

tags: celebrating-life, poetry-quotes, taoism

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#27

“We may be floating on Tao, but there is nothing wrong with steering. If Tao is like a river, it is certainly good to know where the rocks are.”
― Deng Ming-Dao, Everyday Tao: Living with Balance and Harmony

tags: action, river, rocks, taoism

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#28

“Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos; the materials must, in the first place, be afforded: it can give form to dark, shapeless substances, but cannot bring into being the substance itself.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

tags: chaos, creativity, invention, originality, writing

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#29

“Great things are done when men and mountains meet.”
― William Blake

tags: accomplishment

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#30

“If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise”
― William Blake

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