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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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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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    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: inspirational, love
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    Thomas A. Edison
    “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
    ― Thomas A. Edison
    tags: edison, failure, inspirational, paraphrased
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    Albert Einstein
    “If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, simplicity, understand
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: lies, lying, trust
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    John Green
    “You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: satisfaction, self-determination
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    Virginia Woolf
    “I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: women
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    Anaïs Nin
    “Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
    ― Anais Nin
    tags: death, love
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    J.D. Salinger
    “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing
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    Langston Hughes
    “I loved my friend
    He went away from me
    There's nothing more to say
    The poem ends,
    Soft as it began-
    I loved my friend.”
    ― Langston Hughes
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    Alfred Tennyson
    “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”
    ― Alfred Tennyson
    tags: friendship, love
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    A.A. Milne
    “Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.
    "Pooh!" he whispered.
    "Yes, Piglet?"
    "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you.”
    ― A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner
    tags: friendship, piglet, pooh, reassurance
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    “If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.”
    ― Joan Powers, Pooh's Little Instruction Book
    tags: friendship, misattributed-a-a-milne
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    A.A. Milne
    “Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.”
    ― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
    tags: friends, friendship, gratitude
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    Paige Lewis
    “I feel as if I’m on the moon listening to the air hiss out of my spacesuit, and I can’t find the hole. I’m the vice president of panic, and the president is missing.”
    ― Paige Lewis, Space Struck
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    Richard Osman
    “Some people in life, Sue, are weather forecasters, whereas other people are the weather itself.”
    ― Richard Osman, The Man Who Died Twice
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    Richard Osman
    “It was the perfect trip, and as far as Stephen was concerned, the whole weekend was one magical accident. And that's because he is the weather, and I am the weather forecaster. He believes in fate, while I am fate.”
    ― Richard Osman, The Man Who Died Twice
    tags: fate, planning-ahead
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    Paige Lewis
    “Lately, I’ve been feeling betrayed by names: the king cobra isn’t a cobra, the electric eel isn’t an eel, and it turns out my anger was fear all along.”
    ― Paige Lewis, Space Struck
    tags: emotions, fear, feelings
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    Paige Lewis
    “I wonder if we name storms because naming is the only power we’re left with.”
    ― Paige Lewis, Space Struck
    tags: storms
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    Taylor Jenkins Reid
    “People think that intimacy is about sex. But intimacy is about truth. When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you stand in front of them bare and their response is 'you're safe with me'- that's intimacy.”
    ― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
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    Taylor Jenkins Reid
    “I’m under absolutely no obligation to make sense to you.”
    ― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
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    Taylor Jenkins Reid
    “It’s always been fascinating to me how things can be simultaneously true and false, how people can be good and bad all in one, how someone can love you in a way that is beautifully selfless while serving themselves ruthlessly.”
    ― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
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    Taylor Jenkins Reid
    “Sometimes reality comes crashing down on you. Other times reality simply waits, patiently, for you to run out of the energy it takes to deny it.”
    ― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
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    Taylor Jenkins Reid
    “Make them pay you what they would pay a white man.”
    ― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
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    Taylor Jenkins Reid
    “I spent half my time loving her and the other half hiding how much I loved her.”
    ― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
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    Taylor Jenkins Reid
    “You can be sorry about something and not regret it,” Evelyn says.”
    ― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
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    Taylor Jenkins Reid
    “Be wary of men with something to prove.”
    ― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
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    Taylor Jenkins Reid
    “She always made sure the bad was outweighed by so much good. I...well, I didn't do that for her. I made it fifty-fifty. Which is about the cruelest thing you can do to someone you love, give them just enough good to make them stick through a hell of a lot of bad.”
    ― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
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    Taylor Jenkins Reid
    “People are messy, and love can be ugly. I’m inclined to always err on the side of compassion.”
    ― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
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