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    Pliny the Younger
    “For he never read without taking extracts, and used to say that there never was a book so bad that it was not good in some passage or another.”
    ― Pliny the Younger, [Epistolae Plinii ad Trajanum imperatorem hujusque ad illum responsa]: inest Historia critica Epistolarum Plinii et Trajani usque ad a. 1552 scripsit J.O. Orellius. 1838 [Leather Bound]
    tags: reading
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “discontented with the general proposal to go to bed”
    ― Gilbert Keith Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: a Nightmare
    tags: the-story-of-my-life
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    Hilary Mantel
    “I truly believe I should be a better man if the weather were better.”
    ― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
    tags: universal-truths
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Claude Monet
    “I must have flowers, always, and always.”
    ― Claude Monet
    tags: flowers
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    Fernando Pessoa
    “Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
    ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
    tags: literature, reading, solitude
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    John Keats
    “Touch has a memory.”
    ― John Keats
    tags: memory, touch
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.”
    ― Montaigne, Les Essais
    tags: books
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness. ”
    ― Michel de Montaigne
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    Morrissey
    “There's more to life than books, you know. But not much more.”
    ― Morrissey
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    Voltaire
    “Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
    ― Voltaire
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
    tags: fantasy, humor, imagination, literature, stories
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    Ono no Komachi
    “Is this love reality
    Or a dream?
    I cannot know,
    When both reality and dreams
    Exist without truly existing.”
    ― Ono no Komachi, The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan
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    Rita Mae Brown
    “The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your 3 best friends. If they're ok, then it's you.”
    ― Rita Mae Brown
    tags: humor, insanity
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    Vercors
    “Le succès est peu de choses, auprès d'une conscience en repos.”
    ― Vercors
    tags: inspirational-attitude
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    W. Somerset Maugham
    “To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.”
    ― W. Somerset Maugham, Books and You
    tags: bibliotherapy, books, escape, good-habits, life, pleasure, reading, refuge
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    Raymond Carver
    “That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.”
    ― Raymond Carver
    tags: writing
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    Ali Abdollahi
    “I hide your portrait
    in a closet with no holes
    your dress
    in the dresser
    I place the mirror on the bracket
    upside down

    remains of your hair
    are dancing on the windowsill
    in direction of the wind

    in my room
    there is always
    a vacant chair”
    ― Ali Abdollahi
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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir
    tags: feminism
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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “[...]maintenant je n'ai plus de regrets,parce que les choses qui n'existent pas pour moi,il me semble qu'elles n'existent absolument pas.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir, She Came to Stay
    tags: inspirational
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    Anton Chekhov
    “What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.”
    ― A.P. Chekhov
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    George Orwell
    “Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”
    ― George Orwell
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, First Part
    tags: conduct-of-life, life, self-confidence, self-trust
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    Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
    “Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: eating-reading
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
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    Lewis Carroll
    “It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
    ― Lewis Carroll
    tags: alice, humor, inspirational, philosophy-of-life, psychological, yesterday
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    Victor Hugo
    “Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”
    ― Victor Hugo, William Shakespeare
    tags: music
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    Mark Twain
    “Necessity is the mother of taking chances.”
    ― Mark Twain
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