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#1

“When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Zahir

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#2

“We are all born mad. Some remain so.”
― Samuel Beckett

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#3

“You're on Earth. There's no cure for that.”
― Samuel Beckett

tags: life, planets, space-travel

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#4

“Your silence will not protect you.”
― Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

tags: protection, silence, speech

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#5

“It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.”
― William Ernest Henley, Echoes of Life and Death

tags: captain, fate, master

2293 likes

#6

“You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”
― Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes

tags: intelligence, mind, poverty

4090 likes

#7

“Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

tags: identity, pretend

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#8

“Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

tags: chess, daring, ideas

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#9

“Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.”
― Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Maxims

tags: love

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#10

“I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

tags: lost-innocence, memories

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#11

“What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.”
― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

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#12

“I will take the sun in my mouth
and leap into the ripe air
Alive
with closed eyes
to dash against darkness”
― E.E. Cummings, Poems, 1923-1954

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#13

“Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.”
― Howard Nemerov

tags: humor, knowledge, literature, writing

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#14

“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me.”
― Steve Jobs

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#15

“Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.”
― Jodi Picoult

tags: heartbreak, life

3486 likes

#16

“We have this weird thing in the world where you don't get insulted for what you do, you get insulted for who you are.”
― John Green

tags: who-you-are

338 likes

#17

“Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts”
― Jose Saramago

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#18

“Lying is done with words, and also with silence.”
― Adrienne Rich, Women and Honor: Some Notes on Lying

tags: dishonesty, lies, silence, words

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#19

“There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.”
― Adrienne Rich

tags: inspirational

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#20

“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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#21

“Quite often somebody will say, 'What year do your books take place?' and the only answer I can give is, in childhood.”
― Beverly Cleary

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#22

“He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.”
― Rudyard Kipling, Many Inventions

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#23

“Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.”
― Carl Sandburg

3021 likes

#24

“My turn shall also come:
I sense the spreading of a wing.”
― Osip Mandelstam, The Selected Poems

tags: growth, poetry

1734 likes

#25

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: love

47042 likes

#26

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

tags: freedom, women, writing

12729 likes

#27

“I'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.”
― Jack London, The Turtles of Tasman

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#28

“Anxiety's like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you very far.”
― Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home

tags: anxiety, humor, simile

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#29

“Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.”
― Lloyd Alexander, The Black Cauldron

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#30

“If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.”
― Abigail Adams, The Letters of John and Abigail Adams

tags: feminism

1510 likes

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