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“What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic."

[Cosmos, Part 11: The Persistence of Memory (1980)]”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

tags: books, literature, reading, words, writing

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“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to."
"I don't much care where –"
"Then it doesn't matter which way you go.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

tags: adventure

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“Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

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#4

“A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.”
― Dorothy Parker

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#5

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

tags: books, thought

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#6

“To me, beauty is looks you can never forget. A face should jolt, not soothe.”
― John Waters, Shock Value: A Tasteful Book about Bad Taste

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#7

“I was born good but had grown progressively worse every year.
Scout”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

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#8

“I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, ideal-woman, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism, self-awareness, self-determination, women

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#9

“Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another?
We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the end, how close can we come to that person's essence? We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone?”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

tags: essence, friendship, important, love, people, philosophy, possibility, thought

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#10

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski

tags: humor

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#11

“No renuncio a nada, simplemente hago lo que puedo para que las cosas me renuncien a mi.”
― Julio Cortázar

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#12

“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

tags: god, humor, life

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#13

“Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly -- all these make for great stories.”
― Chuck Palahniuk

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#14

“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

tags: distance, life, loneliness, qotd, sense-of-wonder, universe

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“I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, ideal-woman, identity, image, independence, integrity, love, men, realism, romance, self-awareness, self-determination, women

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#16

“Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you!”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: charlotte-bronte, heart, heartbreak, jane-eyre, love, misconceptions, obscurity, parting, plainness, poverty, soul

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#17

“Conventionality is not morality.”
― Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

tags: morality

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#18

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism, self-awareness, self-determination, women

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“I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: age, empowerment, equality, experience, freedom, gender, independence, men, reason, self-determination, submission, superiority, women, women-s-rights

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#20

“I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: ataraxy, defiance, empowerment, independence, individuality, self-assurance, self-awareness, self-containment, self-determination, self-esteem, self-reliance, self-respect, self-sufficiency, self-trust, solitude

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#21

“El Olvido está lleno de Memoria”
― Mario Benedetti, El olvido está lleno de memoria

tags: inspiradora

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#22

“In a country that doesn't discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable.”
― Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin

tags: fame, infamy, right-and-wrong

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#23

“It's far less important to me to be liked these days than to be understood.”
― Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin

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#24

“If you don't love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?”
― RuPaul

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#25

“We all came into this world naked. The rest is all drag.”
― Rupaul

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#26

“Estoy muerto y quiero vivir. Esa es la verdad.”
― Roberto Arlt, Los lanzallamas

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#27

“My mother always told me," hide your face people are looking at you." I would reply," it does not matter; I am also looking at them.”
― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

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#28

“Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

tags: communication, foolishness, knowledge, sharing, teaching, wisdom

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#29

“It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.”
― Herman Hesse, Siddhartha

tags: choices, focus, humility, judgement, judgemental, self, tolerance

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“When someone seeks," said Siddhartha, "then it easily happens that his eyes see only the thing that he seeks, and he is able to find nothing, to take in nothing because he always thinks only about the thing he is seeking, because he has one goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: having a goal. But finding means: being free, being open, having no goal.”
― Herman Hesse, Siddhartha

tags: siddhartha

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