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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers
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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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    Anne Frank
    “It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
    ― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
    tags: hope, human-nature
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    Joyce Carol Oates
    “I never change, I simply become more myself.”
    ― Joyce Carol Oates, Solstice
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    Wisława Szymborska
    “When I pronounce the word Future,
    the first syllable already belongs to the past.

    When I pronounce the word Silence,
    I destroy it.”
    ― Wisława Szymborska, Poems New and Collected
    tags: future, silence
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
    tags: identity, opinions
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    William Shakespeare
    “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
    ― William Shakespeare, As You Like It
    tags: wisdom
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    William Goldman
    “Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.”
    ― William Goldman, Four Screenplays with Essays: Marathon Man - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - The Princess Bride - Misery
    tags: life, pain
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    Anaïs Nin
    “Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.”
    ― Anaïs Nin, Incest: From "A Journal of Love": The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1932-1934
    tags: ecstasy, escape, freedom, intoxication, reality
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    Do one thing every day that scares you.
    “Do one thing every day that scares you.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: attributed, fear, inspiration
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    Gene Stratton-Porter
    “If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write your name anywhere you choose.”
    ― Gene Stratton-Porter, A Girl of the Limberlost
    tags: industriousness, inspirational
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    China Miéville
    “A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge.”
    ― China Miéville, King Rat
    tags: challenge, trap
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    Suzanne Collins
    “What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
    tags: inspirational, love
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    Hayao Miyazaki
    “You must see with eyes unclouded by hate. See the good in that which is evil, and the evil in that which is good. Pledge yourself to neither side, but vow instead to preserve the balance that exists between the two.”
    ― Hayao Miyazaki
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