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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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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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    I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
    “I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
    ― Sarah Williams
    tags: night, poetry
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Fear cuts deeper than swords.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: bravery, fear
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    Paulo Coelho
    “Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
    tags: fear, suffering
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Forget safety.
    Live where you fear to live.
    Destroy your reputation.
    Be notorious.”
    ― Rumi
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    Salvador Dalí
    “Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.”
    ― Salvador Dali
    tags: failure, fear, imperfection, mistakes, perfection, success
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
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    Bernie Sanders
    “When we stand together there is nothing, nothing, nothing we cannot accomplish.”
    ― Bernie Sanders
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  • #11
    “They say that before you start a war, you better know what you're fighting for.”
    ― The Cab
    tags: fight, love, loyalty, war
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    Richard Siken
    “Someone has to leave first. This is a very old story. There is no other version of this story.”
    ― Richard Siken, War of the Foxes
    tags: the-worm-king-s-lullaby
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    Richard Siken
    “If you love me, Henry, you don’t love me in a way I understand.”
    ― Richard Siken, Crush
    tags: love, poetry
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Always winter but never Christmas.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
    tags: christmas
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    Sue Grafton
    “I'm an organism of the earth, a Taurus. I was never born of air, of water, or of fire. I'm a creature of gravity and I could feel the ground whisper. The same thing happens to me in old hotels when I'm staying on the twenty-second floor. I open a window and want to fling myself out.”
    ― Sue Grafton, D is for Deadbeat
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    T.S. Krupa
    “I mean, my age is just a number. So what if you were born in the era when they still used rotary phones and cassette tapes? I think it’s cute.”
    ― T.S. Krupa, Safe & Sound
    tags: 80s, age, cute, funny, love, romance
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    Nick Harkaway
    “In a lot of places, of course, the '80s had never really come to an end.”
    ― Nick Harkaway, Tigerman
    tags: 1980s, 80s
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Don't leave me here alone! It's your Sam calling. Don't go where I can't follow! Wake up, Mr. Frodo!”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
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    Louise Glück
    “We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.”
    ― Louise Gluck
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    Euripides
    “Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream.”
    ― Euripides
    tags: bereavement, dream, greek, grief, loss, mourning, shadow, tragedy
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    Jeffrey Eugenides
    “Winter is the season of alcoholism and despair.”
    ― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
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    Jeffrey Eugenides
    “The world, a tired performer, offers us another half-assed season.”
    ― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
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    Jeffrey Eugenides
    “Aloft, he looked frail, diseased, and temperamental, as we expected a European to look.”
    ― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
    tags: europeans
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    Jeffrey Eugenides
    “His lost look of a man who realized that all this dying was going to be the only life he ever had.”
    ― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
    tags: mr-lisbon
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    Jeffrey Eugenides
    “Her tragedy hadn't made her more approachable, and in fact lent her the unknowable quality of a person who had suffered more than could be expressed.”
    ― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
    tags: inexpressible, jeffrey-eugenides, suffering, the-virgin-suicides, tragedy, unapproachable, unknowable
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  • #26
    Susan Orlean
    “If you had really loved something, wouldn't a little bit of it always linger?”
    ― Susan Orlean, The Orchid Thief
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