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#1

“I remember too much; I am like the air on a calm day as it holds itself still, letting nothing escape.”
― Colm Tóibín, The Testament of Mary

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#2

“The light at the end of the tunnel is just the light of an oncoming train.”
― Robert Lowell

tags: death, life

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#3

“The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

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“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

tags: growth, heart, life, suffering

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#5

“Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.”
― Charles Dickens

tags: kissing, love, romance

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“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

tags: love

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#7

“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

tags: humor, laughter

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#8

“Night is longing, longing, longing, beyond all endurance.”
― Henry Miller, Sexus

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“In this instant, shaken to her very depths, this ecstatic human being has a first inkling that the soul is made of stuff so mysteriously elastic that a single event can make it big enough to contain the infinite.”
― Stefan Zweig, The Post-Office Girl

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#10

“I go to seek a Great Perhaps.”
― François Rabelais

tags: death, french-renaissance-writer, john-green, last-words, life, looking-for-alaska, meaning-of-life, miles-halter

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#11

“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

tags: enemies, mistakes, strategy

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#12

“Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.”
― Sigmund Freud, New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis

tags: desires, illusion, strength

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#13

“Who are you?"
"No one of consequence."
"I must know."
"Get used to disappointment.”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

tags: anonymity, consequence, identity, importance, inquisitiveness

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“I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death”
― Leonardo da Vinci

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#15

“Notre vie est un livre qui s'écrit tout seul. Nous sommes des personnages de roman qui ne comprennent pas toujours bien ce que veut l'auteur.”
― Julien Green

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#16

“A wise old owl once lived in a wood, the more he heard the less he said, the less he said the more he heard, let's emulate that wise old bird.”
― Flann O'Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds

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#17

“They say nothing lasts forever but they're just scared it will last longer than they can love it.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

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#18

“I miss you more than I remember you.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

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#19

“Há mulheres que procuram um homem que lhes abra o mundo. Outras buscam um que as tire do mundo. A maior parte, porém, acaba se unindo a alguém que lhes tira o mundo.”
― Mia Couto, Contos do Nascer da Terra

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“I wonder what your idea of heaven would be — A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists. All powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death. And hell would probably an ugly vacuum full of poor polygamists unable to obtain booze or with chronic stomach disorders that they called secret sorrows.”
― Ernest Hemingway

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#21

“D’you know what happens when you hurt people?’ Ammu said. ‘When you hurt people, they begin to love you less. That’s what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

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“Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done.”
― Seamus Heaney, Beowulf

tags: beowulf, beowulf-seamus-heaney, coast-guard

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#23

“The Law of Chaos: Any activity or event that seems to lie beyond the boundaries of possibility will usually be the first thing to occur.”
― Ian Strang, The Grand Scheme of Things

tags: absurd, absurdity, books, humor, sci-fi

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#24

“We do not remember days, we remember moments.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

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#25

“She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.”
― Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

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#26

“A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

tags: books, fragile, librarian, protection

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#27

“Talentless and incompetent as I am, there are two things I can do, and two things only: walk, with my own two feet; compose, composing my poems.”
― Santōka Taneda

tags: incompetent, poem, talent, walking

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#28

“I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then," he added in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

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#29

“I just think it's important to be direct and honest with people about why you're photographing them and what you're doing. After all, you are taking some of their soul.”
― Mary Ellen Mark

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#30

“Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.”
― Edvard Munch

tags: nature, picture, soul, visibility, visible

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