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#1

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor

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#2

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

tags: wisdom

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#3

“Sometimes choice is a luxury that fate does not afford us.”
― Jasper Fforde, The Last Dragonslayer

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#4

“A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.”
― Irina Dunn

tags: feminism, humour, misattributed-gloria-steinem

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#4

“I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

tags: dignity, empowerment, equality, freedom, gender, independence, power, women, women-s-rights

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#5

“As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

tags: clichés, dignity, double-standards, empowerment, feminism, gender, hypocrisy, intelligence, men, misogyny, self-determination, social-norms, stereotypes, thought, women

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#6

“In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.”
― Simone de Beauvoir

tags: freedom-of-choice, heterosexuality, homosexuality, love

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#7

“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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#8

“I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.”
― Simone de Beauvoir , La vieillesse

tags: ageing, inifinity, life, old-age

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#9

“The point is not for women simply to take power out of men’s hands, since that wouldn’t change anything about the world. It’s a question precisely of destroying that notion of power.”
― Simon De Beavoir

tags: feminism

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#11

“All of Them are monsters, but not all monsters are Them.”
― Demitria Lunetta, In the After

tags: monsters-them-in-the-after

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#12

“No me importa que la mayoría de mis compañeras me recomienden a su hojalatero con cierta condescendencia, quiero cobrar mis arrugas caras a los productores para ser efectivamente vieja pero no pobre y espero que cultivando el alma nunca sea fea.”
― Patricia Reyes Spíndola

tags: cincuentona, denise-dresser, feminismo, fortaleza, gritos-y-susurros, mujeres, patricia, reyes, spíndola

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#14

“Money is a form of alchemy, [...] it turns kind, normal people into greed-mongers, intent only on acquisitiveness.”
― Jasper Fforde, The Last Dragonslayer

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#15

“None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

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#16

“I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot. ”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: holden

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#17

“We cannot tell the rain when to come, nor the winter, nor the cold.”
― Peter V. Brett, The Warded Man

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#18

“Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

tags: flight, flying, inspirational

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#19

“Why did I not die? More miserable than man ever was before, why did I not sink into forgetfulness and rest? Death snatches away many blooming children, the only hopes of their doting parents: how many brides and youthful lovers have been one day in the bloom of health and hope, and the next a prey for worms and the decay of the tomb! Of what materials was I made, that I could thus resist so many shocks, which, like the turning of the wheel, continually renewed the torture?
But I was doomed to live;”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

tags: death, pain

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#20

“Whether consciousness is implanted in us by something divine, or whether it is created by the efforts of our brains, the end result is the same. We are.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnWholly

tags: being, cam, consciousness, creation, frankenstein, human, rewound, soul

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#21

“Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to a mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on a rock."
- Frankenstein p115”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

tags: knowledge, leadership, learning

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#22

“I shall commit my thoughts to paper, it is true; but that is a poor medium for the communication of feeling. I desire the company of a man who could sympathize with me, whose eyes would reply to mine.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

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#23

“A traitor's just a patriot on the wrong side of winning.”
― Jay Kristoff, Nevernight

tags: philisophy, truth

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#24

“What doesn't kill me had better fucking run.”
― Jay Kristoff, Darkdawn

tags: badass, mia-corvere

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#25

“But it's a terrible thing, Dona Mia, when the ones who should love you best leave you for the wolves.”
― Jay Kristoff, Darkdawn

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