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  • #1
    Nawal El Saadawi
    “Life is very hard. The only people who really live are those who are harder than life itself.”
    ― Nawal El Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero
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    Evelyn Waugh
    “Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.”
    ― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited
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  • #3
    Guy Gavriel Kay
    “There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.”
    ― Guy Gavriel Kay, Tigana
    tags: destiny, path
    2107 likes

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  • #4
    Margaret Atwood
    “I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.”
    ― Margaret Atwood
    tags: love, obsession, sleep
    4184 likes

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  • #5
    Shmuley Boteach
    “There is greatness in doing something you hate for the sake of someone you love.”
    ― Shmuley Boteach
    tags: relationships
    3382 likes

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  • #6
    Adeline Yen Mah
    “Please believe that one single positive dream is more important than a thousand negative realities.”
    ― Adeline Yen Mah, Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter
    2124 likes

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  • #7
    Jo Walton
    “It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.”
    ― Jo Walton, Among Others
    tags: books
    2753 likes

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  • #8
    Colleen Hoover
    “Don't take life too seriously. Punch it in the face when it needs a good hit. Laugh at it.”
    ― Colleen Hoover, Slammed
    tags: life
    4290 likes

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  • #9
    Edna O'Brien
    “In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things.”
    ― Edna O'Brien, A Fanatic Heart: Selected Stories
    tags: comment, depth, emotion, inadequacy
    1756 likes

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  • #10
    Arthur C. Clarke
    “I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke
    tags: extraterrestrials, humor, intelligent-life, life, science, universe
    4057 likes

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  • #11
    Susan Sontag
    “I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.”
    ― Susan Sontag
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  • #12
    Winston S. Churchill
    “Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.”
    ― Winston Churchill
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  • #13
    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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  • #14
    Victor Hugo
    “Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.”
    ― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
    2570 likes

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  • #15
    Ayn Rand
    “If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.”
    ― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
    tags: atlas, shrugged
    3748 likes

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  • #16
    Patricia Highsmith
    “My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.”
    ― Patricia Highsmith
    tags: conversations, distractions, imagination, quiet, solitude
    3495 likes

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  • #17
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    “You're something between a dream and a miracle.”
    ― Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    tags: dream
    2464 likes

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  • #18
    The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have
    “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”
    ― Alice Walker
    tags: inspirational
    3684 likes

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  • #19
    Matt Groening
    “I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.”
    ― Matt Groening
    tags: family, humor, language, satire, simpsons, social-commentary
    2226 likes

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  • #20
    Amy Tan
    “Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.”
    ― Amy Tan, The Kitchen God's Wife
    1749 likes

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  • #21
    Erica Jong
    “I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back....”
    ― Erica Jong
    tags: change, courage, fear, life
    2386 likes

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  • #22
    Lydia Cacho
    “I've never wanted a quiet life.”
    ― Lydia Cacho
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  • #23
    Kathy Acker
    “If you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything.”
    ― Kathy Acker
    1475 likes

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  • #24
    Søren Kierkegaard
    “People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard, The Journals of Kierkegaard
    2027 likes

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  • #25
    Barbara Taylor Bradford
    “The past was always there, lived inside of you, and it helped to make you who you were. But it had to be placed in perspective. The past could not dominate the future.”
    ― Barbara Taylor Bradford, Unexpected Blessings
    tags: future, past
    952 likes

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  • #26
    Kōji Suzuki
    “The world doesn't hate you as much as you think it does.”
    ― Koji Suzuki, Birthday
    1053 likes

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  • #27
    Eoin Colfer
    “I never tell anyone exactly how clever I am. They would be too scared.”
    ― Eoin Colfer, The Eternity Code
    tags: mysterious
    2062 likes

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  • #28
    Diane Duane
    “Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you've changed, by believing. Once you've changed, other things start to follow. Isn't that the way it works?”
    ― Diane Duane, So You Want to Be a Wizard
    tags: belief, change, faith, life, magic, universe
    1445 likes

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  • #29
    Harsha Bhogle
    “The moment you put a deadline on your dream, it becomes a goal.”
    ― Harsha Bhogle, The Winning Way: Learnings from sport for managers
    1308 likes

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  • #30
    Durian Sukegawa
    “If all you ever see is reality, you just want to die.”
    ― Durian Sukegawa, Les délices de Tokyo
    59 likes



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