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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
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    Oscar Wilde
    “It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: books, reading
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    Dante Alighieri
    “The experience of this sweet life.”
    ― Dante Alighieri
    tags: beautiful
    34 likes

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    Haruki Murakami
    “Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
    tags: nagasawa
    4027 likes

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    Haruki Murakami
    “In a place far away from anyone or anywhere, I drifted off for a moment.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
    551 likes

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    Joyce Carol Oates
    “Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.”
    ― Joyce Carol Oates
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    Nam Le
    “Art, after all, is - at its best - a lie that tells us the truth.”
    ― Nam Le
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
    tags: humanity, individuals, love, mankind
    3126 likes

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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Boredom: the desire for desires.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: truth
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  • #11
    Leo Tolstoy
    “Music is the shorthand of emotion”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
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  • #12
    Albert Camus
    “Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: humanity, life, mankind, mortality
    7372 likes

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  • #13
    David Foster Wallace
    “Fiction’s about what it is to be a fucking human being.”
    ― David Foster Wallace
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    Algernon Charles Swinburne
    “And the best and the worst of this is
    That neither is most to blame,
    If you have forgotten my kisses
    And I have forgotten your name.”
    ― Algernon Charles Swinburne
    tags: kisses, love
    30 likes

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  • #15
    Denis Johnson
    “Write naked. Write in exile. Write in blood.”
    ― Denis Johnson
    tags: writing
    12 likes



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