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    Orson Scott Card
    “In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them.... I destroy them.”
    ― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
    tags: enemy, epiphany, hate, love, understanding
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    Orson Scott Card
    “Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.”
    ― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
    tags: identity, pretend
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  • #3
    Orson Scott Card
    “If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.”
    ― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
    tags: hard-work, inaction, just-do-it, success, team
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  • #4
    Orson Scott Card
    “I don't care if I pass your test, I don't care if I follow your rules. If you can cheat, so can I. I won't let you beat me unfairly - I'll beat you unfairly first.
    - Ender ”
    ― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
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  • #5
    Orson Scott Card
    “I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth: the mythic truth about human nature in general, the particular truth about those life-communities that define our own identity, and the most specific truth of all: our own self-story. Fiction, because it is not about someone who lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself. --From the Introduction”
    ― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
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  • #6
    Orson Scott Card
    “Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along―the same person that I am today.”
    ― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
    tags: childhood, introduction, orson-scott-card, personhood
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  • #7
    Orson Scott Card
    “Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.”
    ― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
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  • #8
    Orson Scott Card
    “Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.”
    ― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
    tags: happiness, humanity, mazer-rackham
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  • #9
    Orson Scott Card
    “I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it.”
    ― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
    tags: ender-wiggin, identity, pain
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  • #10
    Orson Scott Card
    “Early to bed and early to rise," Mazer intoned, "makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes.”
    ― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
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  • #11
    Orson Scott Card
    “Ender Wiggin isn't a killer. He just wins—thoroughly.”
    ― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
    tags: ender, ender-wiggin, graff, killing
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  • #12
    Orson Scott Card
    “I also remembered that you were beautiful."
    "Memory does play tricks on us."
    "No. Your face is the same, but I don't remember what beautiful means anymore.”
    ― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
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  • #13
    Alice Sebold
    “Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
    ― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
    tags: destiny, dreams, epiphany, re-direction, re-thinking
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  • #14
    Albert Einstein
    “I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: creativity, epiphany, humor, inspiration
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  • #15
    Margaret George
    “So I learned two things that night, and the next day, from him: the perfection of a moment, and the fleeting nature of it.”
    ― Margaret George, The Memoirs of Cleopatra
    tags: cleopatra, epiphany, fiction, journey, life, loss, love, relationships
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  • #16
    John Boyne
    “What exactly was the difference? He wondered to himself. And who decided which people wore the striped pajamas and which people wore the uniforms?”
    ― John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
    tags: children, epiphany, holocaust, thoughts
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  • #17
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: beauty, death, poetry, women
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  • #18
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
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  • #19
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind”
    ― Edgar Allen Poe
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  • #20
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: poetry
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  • #21
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
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  • #22
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, The Poetic Principle
    tags: beauty, poetry, rhythm
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  • #23
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.”
    ― Edgar Allen Poe
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  • #24
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: poetry
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  • #25
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
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  • #26
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: misquote, poetry
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  • #27
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, The Premature Burial
    tags: death, life
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  • #28
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Yet mad I am not...and very surely do I not dream.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, The Black Cat
    tags: dreaming, dreams, insanity, sanity
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  • #29
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Even in the grave, all is not lost.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: death, hopelessness
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  • #30
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
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