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    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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    J.K. Rowling
    “It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
    tags: fear-unknown
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    Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.
    “Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
    ― Roald Dahl
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: books, morality, reading
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    Mark Twain
    “Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books-reading
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    Roald Dahl
    “A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”
    ― Roald Dahl, The Twits
    2645 likes

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    Roald Dahl
    “Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.”
    ― Roald Dahl
    tags: childhood, children, humor
    900 likes

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    Roald Dahl
    “Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.”
    ― Roald Dahl
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    Mark Twain
    “But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor-satan
    6212 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
    43996 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: truth
    16254 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, classic, reading
    18884 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: clothing
    3693 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: self-acceptance, self-esteem
    2370 likes

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    J.K. Rowling
    “You are the true master of death, because the true master does not seek to run away from Death. He accepts that be must die, and understands that there are far, far worse things in the living world than dying.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    440 likes

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    Gregory Maguire
    “People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.”
    ― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
    tags: evil, good
    4473 likes

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    Pablo Neruda
    “I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
    in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
    ― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
    tags: love, poetry
    16211 likes

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    Anne Rice
    “To be godless is probably the first step to innocence," he said, "to lose the sense of sin and subordination, the false grief for things supposed to be lost."
    So by innocence you mean not an absence of experience, but an absence of illusions."
    An absence of need for illusions," he said. "A love of and respect for what is right before your eyes.”
    ― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat
    tags: illusions, lestat
    192 likes

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    Anne Rice
    “I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love.”
    ― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat
    tags: compassion, deciet, hate, interview-with-the-vampire, lestat, lie, lies, love, lovers, lying, secret, secrets, truth, vampire, vampires
    440 likes

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    Roald Dahl
    “Matilda said, "Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it's unbelievable...”
    ― Roald Dahl, Matilda
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    Roald Dahl
    “A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it”
    ― Roald Dahl
    tags: writing
    794 likes

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    Brom
    “Men who fear demons see demons everywhere.”
    ― Brom, The Child Thief
    tags: demons, fear, see
    365 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.
    Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: books, morality
    1537 likes

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    Roald Dahl
    “It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.”
    ― Roald Dahl, The Witches
    tags: love
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    Oscar Wilde
    “We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost
    tags: america, britain, english
    47 likes

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    John Milton
    “So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear, Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost; Evil, be thou my good.”
    ― John Milton
    tags: paradise-lost-bk-iv
    61 likes

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    John Milton
    “The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
    ― John Milton, Paradise Lost
    tags: inspirational, religion
    8540 likes

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    Theodora Goss
    “No wonder men did not want women to wear bloomers. What could women accomplish if they did not have to continually mind their skirts, keep them from dragging in the mud or getting trampled on the steps of an omnibus? If they had pockets! With pockets, women could conquer the world!”
    ― Theodora Goss, The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter
    tags: womanhood
    45 likes

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    Susanna Clarke
    “Houses, like people, are apt to become rather eccentric if left too much on their own; this house was the architectural equivalent of an old gentleman in a worn dressing-gown and torn slippers, who got up and went to bed at odd times of day, and who kept up a continual conversation with friends no one else could see.”
    ― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
    tags: 2004, eccentricity, solitude
    167 likes

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    Haruki Murakami
    “Genius or fool, you don't live in the world alone. You can hide underground or you can build a wall around yourself, but somebody's going to come along and screw up the works.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
    135 likes



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