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    Langston Hughes
    “Life is for the living.
    Death is for the dead.
    Let life be like music.
    And death a note unsaid.”
    ― Langston Hughes, The Collected Poems
    tags: death, life, music
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    M.L. Stedman
    “Scars are just another kind of memory.”
    ― M.L. Stedman, The Light Between Oceans
    tags: inspirational, inspirational-quotes, memory, scars
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    Richelle Mead
    “Sometimes you wake up from a dream. Sometimes you wake up in a dream. And sometimes, every once in a while, you wake up in someone else's dream. ”
    ― Richelle Mead, Succubus Blues
    tags: fiction, georgina, romance, succubus, vampire
    1932 likes

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    Haruki Murakami
    “It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
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    Tim Farrington
    “We are born to love as we are born to die, and between the heartbeats of those two great mysteries lies all the tangled undergrowth of our tiny lives. There is nowhere to go but through. And so we walk on, lost, and lost again, in the mapless wilderness of love.”
    ― Tim Farrington, The Monk Downstairs
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    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
    ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
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    Guy de Maupassant
    “Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.”
    ― Guy de Maupassant
    tags: memory
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    “To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.”
    ― Thomas Campbell
    tags: death, epitaph, immortality, memory, remembrance
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  • #10
    The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce
    “The Seven Social Sins are:

    Wealth without work.
    Pleasure without conscience.
    Knowledge without character.
    Commerce without morality.
    Science without humanity.
    Worship without sacrifice.
    Politics without principle.


    From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.”
    ― Frederick Lewis Donaldson
    tags: character, commerce, conscience, happiness, humanity, knowledge, misattributed-to-gandhi, money, morality, pleasure, politics, principle, sacrifice, science, sin, sins, wealth, work, worship
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    Langston Hughes
    “I swear to the Lord,I still can't see,Why Democracy means,Everybody but me. ”
    ― Langston Hughes
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    Charles Dickens
    “A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.”
    ― Charles Dickens
    tags: first-love, gender-roles, last-love, love, men, men-and-women, men-mars-women-venus, relationships, women
    410 likes

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    Elie Wiesel
    “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
    ― Elie Wiesel
    tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy
    42086 likes

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    William Shakespeare
    “Love all, trust a few,
    Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
    Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
    Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
    But never tax'd for speech.”
    ― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well
    tags: do-wrong, love, trust, wrong
    37061 likes

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    Alfred Tennyson
    “Tis better to have loved and lost
    Than never to have loved at all.”
    ― Alfred Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam
    tags: paraphrase-of-congreve
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    Pablo Neruda
    “I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
    in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
    ― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
    tags: love, poetry
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    Candace Bushnell
    “Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it.”
    ― Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City
    tags: love, relationships
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: love, madness
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    Ralph Ellison
    “When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.”
    ― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
    tags: freedom, identity, independence, self-awareness, self-discovery
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    Toni Morrison
    “Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”
    ― Toni Morrison, Beloved
    tags: freedom, self
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: age, empowerment, equality, experience, freedom, gender, independence, men, reason, self-determination, submission, superiority, women, women-s-rights
    3399 likes

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    Rosa Luxemburg
    “Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.”
    ― Rosa Luxemburg
    tags: evolution, freedom, history, liberation, progress, struggle
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  • #23
    “... in moments of crisis our thoughts do not run consecutively but rather sweep over us in waves or intuition and experience ...”
    ― John le Carré, The Russia House
    tags: crisis, experience, intuition, thinking
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    “Some men will never be heroes, some heroes will never be men, he thought, with urgent acknowledgements to Joseph Conrad.”
    ― John le Carré, The Russia House
    tags: conrad, espionage, heroes, spy
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    “There was only now [ ... ] There was no tomorrow because tomorrow was the excuse. There was now or there was nowhere.”
    ― John le Carré, The Russia House
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  • #26
    “A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.”
    ― John le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy
    tags: desk, viewpoint
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    “The more identities a man has, the more they express the person they conceal.”
    ― John le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
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    “Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen.”
    ― John Le Carre
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  • #29
    “Do you know what love is? I'll tell you: it is whatever you can still betray.”
    ― John le Carré, The Looking Glass War
    tags: betrayal, espionage, love
    163 likes

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    “Sometimes we have to do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions, not answers.”
    ― John le Carré, A Perfect Spy
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  • #31
    “By repetition, each lie becomes an irreversible fact upon which other lies are constructed.”
    ― John Le Carre
    tags: government, politics, social-comment
    79 likes



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