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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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    Augusten Burroughs
    “I, myself, am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.”
    ― Augusten Burroughs
    tags: flaws, individuality
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    William Shakespeare
    “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
    ― William Shakespeare, As You Like It
    tags: wisdom
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    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life
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    William Shakespeare
    “Love all, trust a few,
    Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
    Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
    Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
    But never tax'd for speech.”
    ― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well
    tags: do-wrong, love, trust, wrong
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    Elie Wiesel
    “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
    ― Elie Wiesel
    tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
    tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton
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    Mark Twain
    “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: attributed-no-source, education
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: good, writing
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: age, fairytales, growing-up
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    Jane Austen
    “The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!”
    ― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
    tags: humanity, kindness, relationships
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  • #13
    Francesca Lia Block
    “Like Beauty. But she only pricked her finger. I had a spindle through my heart.”
    ― Francesca Lia Block, The Elementals
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    Francesca Lia Block
    “We no longer believe in fairy tales. But we will learn to believe in monsters.”
    ― Francesca Lia Block, The Elementals
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables & Reflections
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    Peter S. Beagle
    “Her voice left a flavor of honey and gunpowder on the air.”
    ― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn
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    Toni Morrison
    “If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
    ― Toni Morrison
    tags: books, writing
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: food, happiness
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I'm such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn't be half so interesting.”
    ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
    tags: different-selves, interesting, personality, self-knowledge
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    Czesław Miłosz
    “Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone.”
    ― Czeslaw Milosz
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    Peter S. Beagle
    “Real magic can never be made by offering someone else's liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back.”
    ― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn
    tags: inspirational, magic, reminding, sacrifice
    891 likes

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    John Keats
    “And how they kist each other's tremulous eyes.”
    ― John Keats, Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
    ― L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “Why must people kneel down to pray? If I really wanted to pray I’ll tell you what I'd do. I'd go out into a great big field all alone or in the deep, deep woods and I'd look up into the sky—up—up—up—into that lovely blue sky that looks as if there was no end to its blueness. And then I'd just feel a prayer.”
    ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “Listen to the trees talking in their sleep,' she whispered, as he lifted her to the ground. 'What nice dreams they must have!”
    ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
    tags: dreams, l-m-montgomery, trees
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    Georges Bataille
    “I don't want your love unless you know I am repulsive, and love me even as you know it.”
    ― Georges Bataille
    tags: love, monsters, relationships, repulsion
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    Marcel Proust
    “Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.”
    ― Marcel Proust
    tags: memory, nostalgia, recollection
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  • #28
    Fannie Flagg
    “You're just a bee charmer, Idgie Threadgoode. That's what you are, a bee charmer.”
    ― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
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  • #29
    Stephen King
    “Living by your wits is always knowing where the wasps are.”
    ― Stephen King, The Shining
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  • #30
    Terry Pratchett
    “If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
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