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    Henry David Thoreau
    “The animal merely makes a bed, which he warms with his body in a sheltered place; but man, having discovered fire, boxes up some air in a spacious apartment, and warms that, instead of robbing himself, makes that his bed, in which he can move about divested of more cumbrous clothing, maintain a kind of summer in the midst of winter, and by means of windows even admit the light and with a lamp lengthen out the day.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    tags: inspirational
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    “What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.”
    ― Henry Stanley Haskins, Meditations in Wall Street
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    tags: carpe-diem, live-in-the-moment
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden and Other Writings
    tags: simplicity
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “All good things are wild and free.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “There is no remedy for love but to love more.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    tags: love-remedy
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    tags: dreams, truth
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    Frances Hodgson Burnett
    “Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like?"...
    "It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine...”
    ― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
    tags: beauty, children, classic, nature, spring
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest. The only thing that could spoil a day was people and if you could keep from making engagements, each day had no limits. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
    tags: a-moveable-feast, hemingway, spring
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    Kobayashi Issa
    “What a strange thing!
    to be alive
    beneath cherry blossoms.”
    ― Kobayashi Issa, Poems
    tags: blossoms, cherry-blossoms, haiku, japan, life, poetry, spring
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    Kobayashi Issa
    “Summer night--
    even the stars
    are whispering to each other.”
    ― Kobayashi Issa
    tags: poetry
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    Kobayashi Issa
    “Here
    I'm here-
    the snow falling.”
    ― Issa
    tags: haiku, nature, poetry
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    Kobayashi Issa
    “In the cherry blossom's shade
    there's no such thing
    as a stranger.”
    ― Kobayashi Issa
    tags: hospitality, old-songs, truth
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    Kobayashi Issa
    “The world of dew
    is the world of dew.
    And yet, and yet--”
    ― Issa Kobayashi, The Dumpling Field: Haiku of Issa
    tags: haiku
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    Natsuo Kirino
    “It wasn't so much that I was afraid of the place itself, but I was afraid of the creatures who masqueraded as people.”
    ― Natsuo Kirino, Real World
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    Haruki Murakami
    “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
    tags: books, thought
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    Haruki Murakami
    “Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.”
    ― Haruki Marukami
    tags: expectation
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    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    ― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You
    tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail
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    Patrick Ness
    “The only place you belong is the place you can never go back to.”
    ― Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go
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    Rainbow Rowell
    “I miss you."
    "That's stupid," she said. "I saw you this morning."
    "It's not the time," Levi said, and she could hear that he was smiling." It's the distance.”
    ― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl
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    Rainbow Rowell
    “That moment," she told Cath, "when you realize that a guy's looking at you differently—that you're taking up more space in his field of vision. That moment when you know he can't see past you anymore.”
    ― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl
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    Rainbow Rowell
    “It's okay if you're crazy," he said softly.
    "You don't even know-"
    "I don't have to know," he said. "I'm rooting for you.”
    ― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl
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    Rainbow Rowell
    “Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow," he said.”
    ― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl
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    Rainbow Rowell
    “Take off your glasses."
    "Why? I thought you liked my glassess."
    "I love your glasses. I especially love the moment when you take them off.”
    ― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl
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    Makoto Shinkai
    “I love you. I can't remember when I fell in love with you but very naturally, I had fallen in love with you before I knew it. The first time I met you, you were a strong and kind boy. You always protected me.”
    ― Makoto Shinkai, 5 Centimeters per Second
    tags: first-love, friendship, love, protection, unrequited-love
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    Makoto Shinkai
    “Maybe we tried to leave as much memories of ourselves with each other because we knew one day we wouldn't be together any more.”
    ― Makoto Shinkai, 5 Centimeters per Second
    tags: anxiety, first-love, heartbreak, moving-forward, moving-on, separation, separation-anxiety
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    Makoto Shinkai
    “The feelings were still fresh as if it all just happened yesterday.”
    ― Makoto Shinkai, 5 Centimeters per Second
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    “For a long time... I've been asking myself this question... Am I a memory? Are you... a memory? Are we just... a collection of memories? I've always been waiting... for the person who disappeared beyond those rails. Now I understand. It didn't end here. This place... was just the beginning.”
    ― Yuuki Obata, 僕等がいた 16 [Bokura ga Ita 16]
    tags: nanami, nanami-takahashi
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    Susan Ee
    “Oh, please. Your giant head is getting too big for this forest. Pretty soon, you're going to get stuck trying to walk between two tress. And then, I'll have to rescue you." I give him a weary look. "Again.”
    ― Susan Ee, Angelfall
    tags: penryn
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