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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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    Margaret Atwood
    “Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones. This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with open eyes, not knowing the future.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye
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    Stefan Zweig
    “Time to leave now, get out of this room, go somewhere, anywhere; sharpen this feeling of happiness and freedom, stretch your limbs, fill your eyes, be awake, wider awake, vividly awake in every sense and every pore.”
    ― Stefan Zweig, The Post-Office Girl
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    Haruki Murakami
    “Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
    tags: memories
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    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
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    Richard Wright
    “Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books...”
    ― Richard Wright, Black Boy
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    Edward Albee
    “You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?”
    ― Edward Albee
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    Daphne du Maurier
    “But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”
    ― Daphne du Maurier
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    William Shakespeare
    “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
    tags: self-determination, self-responsibility, timidity
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    Charles Bukowski
    “The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
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    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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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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    If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use
    “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: books, reading
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    Sabahattin Ali
    “Niçin rüzgarlı sonbahar akşamlarında, sessizce yan yana yürüyerek ruhlarımızın konuştuğunu dinleyemiyoruz?”
    ― Sabahattin Ali, Kürk Mantolu Madonna
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    Groucho Marx
    “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: books, humor, reading, television
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    Dan Brown
    “Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.”
    ― Dan Brown, Digital Fortress
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Walter Benjamin
    “It is the task of the translator to release in his own language that pure language that is under the spell of another, to liberate the language imprisoned in a work in his re-creation of that work.”
    ― Walter Benjamin, Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
    tags: translation
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    Lord Byron
    “In secret we met
    In silence I grieve,
    That thy heart could forget,
    Thy spirit deceive.”
    ― George Gordon Byron
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    Lisa Kleypas
    “I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together.”
    ― Lisa Kleypas, Blue-Eyed Devil
    tags: love, relationships, romance
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    Charles Dickens
    “And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death.”
    ― Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend
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    Pearl S. Buck
    “Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.”
    ― Pearl S. Buck
    tags: contentment
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    Nora Roberts
    “A ghra. A amhain. My love. My only.”
    ― Nora Roberts, Face the Fire
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    Sigmund Freud
    “Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.”
    ― Sigmund Freud
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    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke
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    Penelope Fitzgerald
    “On the whole, I think you should write biographies of those you admire and respect, and novels about human beings who you think are sadly mistaken.”
    ― Penelope Fitzgerald
    tags: writing, writing-advice, writing-craft, writing-humor
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    Guy de Maupassant
    “Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.”
    ― Guy de Maupassant
    tags: memory
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    H.G. Wells
    “We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.”
    ― H.G. Wells
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