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#1

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth

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#2

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

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#3

“What you end up remembering isn't always the same as what you have witnessed.”
― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

tags: memory, nostalgia

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#4

“Dear old world', she murmured, 'you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

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#5

“Oh, it's delightful to have ambitions. I'm so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them-- that's the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

tags: ambition

1068 likes

#6

“I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.”
― L.M. Montgomery

tags: books

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#7

“After all," Anne had said to Marilla once, "I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

tags: home, inspirational, pearls, pleasures, simple

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#8

“It was November--the month of crimson sunsets, parting birds, deep, sad hymns of the sea, passionate wind-songs in the pines. Anne roamed through the pineland alleys in the park and, as she said, let that great sweeping wind blow the fogs out of her soul.”
― L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

tags: anne-of-the-island

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#9

“My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

tags: despair, hope

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#10

“Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Story Girl

tags: memories

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#11

“Because when you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worth while.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

tags: imagination

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#12

“I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I've never been able to believe it. I don't believe a rose WOULD be as nice if it was called a thistle or a skunk cabbage.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

tags: labels, names, power-of-words

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#13

“Oh, sometimes I think it is of no use to make friends. They only go out of your life after awhile and leave a hurt that is worse than the emptiness before they came.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

tags: friendship, loss, sadness

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#14

“And if you couldn't be loved, the next best thing was to be let alone.”
― L.M. Montgomery

tags: alone, hill, jane, lantern, love

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#15

“All life lessons are not learned at college,' she thought. 'Life teaches them everywhere.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island

tags: anne-island

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#16

“I couldn't live where there were no trees--something vital in me would starve.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams

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#17

“It's delightful when your imaginations come true, isn't it?”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

tags: imagination, l-m-montgomery

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#18

“I've loved you ever since that day you broke your slate over my head in school.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island

tags: anne-of-green-gables

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#19

“I love to smell flowers in the dark," she said. "You get hold of their soul then.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams

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#20

“كانت مُتعَبَة، كانت تحتاج إلى شجرة تنام عليها، وكنت أنا أقرب غصن لها.”
― هاروكي موراكامي, رقص... رقص... رقص...

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#21

“فقل للبائعين :دعوا بلادي
و أخلوا دون أقصاي السبيلا
سيأتي جيل تحرير أبي
يحقق بالجهاد المستحيلا”
― أيمن العتوم, خذني إلى المسجد الأقصى

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#22

“وكلّ جرح مع الأيام مُلتئِمٌ
لكنّ جرح بلادي غير مُلتئم
ما دام فيها يهوديّ يُنجِّسها
فسوف يكبر فيها الجرح كالورم”
― أيمن العتوم, خذني إلى المسجد الأقصى

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#23

“غير أن القراءة بالفراش تعتبر أكثر من مجرد تمضية للوقت, إنها تمثل نوعاً من الوحدة فالمرء يتراجع مركزاً على ذاته ويترك الجسد يرتاح,ويجعل من نفسه بعيداً لا يمكن الوصول إليه مخفياً عن العالم”
― Alberto Manguel, A History of Reading

tags: تاريخ-القراءة

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#24

“أعطتني القراءة عذرًا مقبولاً لعزلتي ، بل ربما أعطت مغزى لتلك العزلة المفروضة علي”
― البرتو مانغويل

tags: تاريخ-القراءة

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#25

“أنا أعرف تماماً أنّ شيئاً ما يموت في داخلي عندما أستغني عن كتبي, وأن ذكرياتي تعود إليها دوماً وأبداً وتصيبني بحنين مؤلم للغاية”
― Alberto Manguel, A History of Reading

tags: تاريخ-القراءة

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#26

“كان تحمسي مفرطاً إلى درجة أني كنتُ أظن سأصبح إنسانة غير سعيدة إن لم أعثر دوماً على كتاب جديد أقرأه”
― Alberto Manguel, A History of Reading

tags: تاريخ-القراءة-تريزا

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#27

“أعطتني القراءة عذرا مقبولا لعزلتي، بل ربما أعطت مغزى لتلك العزلة المفروضة علي.”
― Alberto Manguel, A History of Reading

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#28

“During the day, the library is a realm of order.”
― Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night

tags: library, order

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#29

“Libraries, have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as long as I can remember I’ve been seduced by their labyrinthine logic.” - The Library at Night”
― Alberto Manguel

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#30

“Libraries are not, never will be, used by everyone.”
― Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night

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