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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
    tags: life
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: truth
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    Anaïs Nin
    “We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
    ― Anaïs Nin
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    Douglas Adams
    “The story so far:
    In the beginning the Universe was created.
    This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
    tags: humor, scifi
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    Aldous Huxley
    “Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
    tags: reading, words, writing
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    James Baldwin
    “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
    ― James Baldwin
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    Edith Sitwell
    “I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty...But I am too busy thinking about myself.”
    ― Edith Sitwell
    tags: life
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    Isaac Asimov
    “It is remarkable, Hardin, how the religion of science has grabbed hold. ”
    ― Isaac Asimov, Foundation
    tags: religion-science
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    Frank Herbert
    “Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune
    tags: paradox
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  • #10
    Books. Cats. Life is Good.
    “Books. Cats. Life is Good.”
    ― Edward Gorey
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    Mark Twain
    “God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: americans, geography, war
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    Mark Twain
    “In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: bookroom, books, libraries, wisdom
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    Anna Akhmatova
    “I have a lot of work to do today;
    I need to slaughter memory,
    Turn my living soul to stone
    Then teach myself to live again.”
    ― Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
    tags: living, poetry, soul
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