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“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic. World's had to be in travail, that the meanest flower might blow...”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: beauty, flower, tragedy, travail

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#2

“It's necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

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#3

“Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

tags: life, pain

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#4

“I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

tags: mischief

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#5

“Don't let the muggles get you down.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

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#6

“You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly in times of great trouble?”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

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#7

“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

tags: dumbledore, philosophy

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#8

“Who is to say plutonium is more powerful than, say, rice? One takes away a million lives, the other saves a hundred times as many.”
― N.K. Jemisin, How Long 'til Black Future Month?

tags: hunger, life, power, rice

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#9

“...for without contrasts, how does one appreciate the different forms that joy can take?”
― N.K. Jemisin, How Long 'til Black Future Month?

tags: contrasts, joy

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#10

“People don' need no monster to make 'em do evil-hearted shit. All it take is a brown face, or somebody wearin' old tore-up clothes.”
― N.K. Jemisin, How Long 'til Black Future Month?

tags: hate, monsters, racism

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#11

“I took a wrong turn on the way to the bathroom and found myself in a beautifully proportioned room I had never seen before, containing a really rather magnificent collection of chamberpots. When I went back to investigate more closely, I discovered that the room had vanished. But I must keep an eye out for it. Possibly it is only accessible at five thirty in the morning. Or it may only appear at the quarter moon - or when the seeker has an exceptionally full bladder.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

tags: dumbledore, yule-ball

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#12

“It's the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.”
― Oscar Wilde, Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man

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#13

“Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

tags: acceptance, inspiration, inspirational, smart, understanding, wise

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#14

“What’s comin’ will come, an’ we’ll meet it when it does.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

tags: hagrid

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#15

“We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

tags: dumbledore, strength, unity

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#16

“Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

tags: inspirational-love

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#17

“All human wisdom is contained in these two words - Wait and Hope”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

tags: book-the-count-of-monte-cristo

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#18

“Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

tags: love, women, worship

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#19

“Problems always start long before you really, really see them.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

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#20

“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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#21

“Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.”
― JK Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

tags: death, love

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#22

“We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.”
― Brian Cox

tags: consciousness, cosmos, inspirational, life, universe

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#23

“Science tells us how to heal and how to kill; it reduces the death rate in retail and then kills us wholesale in war; but only wisdom—desire coordinated in the light of all experience—can tell us when to heal and when to kill.”
― Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy

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#24

“There is no real philosophy until the mind turns round and examines itself.”
― Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy

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#25

“Philosophy begins when one learns to doubt—particularly to doubt one’s cherished beliefs, one’s dogmas and one’s axioms.”
― Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy

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#26

“Men are not content with a simple life: they are acquisitive, ambitious, competitive, and jealous; they soon tire of what they have, and pine for what they have not; and they seldom desire anything unless it belongs to others.”
― Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy

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#27

“In the midst of unprecedented learning popular ignorance flourished, and chose its exemplars to rule the great cities of the world.”
― Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The lives and opinions of the world's greatest philosophers from Plato to John Dewey

tags: ignorance, learning, politics

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#28

“It did not seem to Plato any insult to philosophy that it should be transformed into literature, realized as drama, and beautified with style; nor any derogation to its dignity that it should apply itself, even intelligibly, to living problems of morality and the state.”
― Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

tags: literature, philosophy, plato, politics

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#29

“A sense of humor, being born of perspective, bears a near kinship to philosophy; each is the soul of the other.”
― Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

tags: humor, perspective, philosophy, sense-of-humor

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#30

“Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest shall be provided or its loss shall not be felt.”
― Sir Francis Bacon

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