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    William Shakespeare
    “When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.”
    ― William Shakespeare, King Lear
    tags: cry, fools, newborn, stage
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    Ocean Vuong
    “You once told me that the human eye is god's loneliest creation. How so much of the world passes through the pupil and still it holds nothing. The eye, alone in its socket, doesn't even know there's another one, just like it, an inch away, just as hungry, as empty.”
    ― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
    tags: insightful, lonely, thought-provoking
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    Margaret Rogerson
    “But isn’t absurdity part of being human? We aren’t ageless creatures who watch centuries pass from afar. Our worlds are small, our lives are short, and we can only bleed a little before we fall.”
    ― Margaret Rogerson, An Enchantment of Ravens
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Every man must die, Jon Snow. But first he must live.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
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    Emily Dickinson
    “If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?”
    ― Emily Dickinson, Selected Letters
    tags: poetry, power-of-words
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    William Shakespeare
    “God hath given you one face, and you make yourself another.”
    ― Shakespeare, Hamlet
    tags: deceit, falsehood
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    E.M. Forster
    “I seem fated to pass through the world without colliding with it or moving it — and I'm sure I can't tell you whether the fate's good or evil. I don't die — I don't fall in love. And if other people die or fall in love they always do it when I'm just not there.”
    ― E. M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread
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    William Shakespeare
    “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
    ― William Shakespear, Hamlet
    tags: philosophy
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Knowledge is a Weapon, Jon. Arm yourself well before you ride forth to Battle.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
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    William Shakespeare
    “Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise.”
    ― William Shakespeare, King Lear
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    J.D. Salinger
    “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Men will always underestimate you, he said, and their pride will make them want to vanquish you quickly, lest it be said that a woman tried them sorely. Let them spend their strength in furious attacks, whilst you conserve your own. Wait and watch, girl, wait and watch.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows
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    William Shakespeare
    “Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?
    SAMPSON [Aside to Gregory]: Is the law of our side, if I say ay?
    GREGORY [Aside to Sampson]: No.
    SAMPSON: No, sir, I do not bite my thumb at you, sir, but I bite my thumb, sir.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
    tags: insult
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    William Shakespeare
    “What's in a name? that which we call a rose
    By any other name would smell as sweet.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
    tags: identity, labels, names, personality
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    William Shakespeare
    “When we our betters see bearing our woes,
    We scarcely think our miseries our foes.”
    ― William Shakespeare, King Lear
    tags: misery, woe
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    William Shakespeare
    “These violent delights have violent ends
    And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
    Which as they kiss consume. The sweetest honey
    Is loathsome in his own deliciousness
    And in the taste confounds the appetite.
    Therefore love moderately; long love doth so;
    Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
    tags: romeo-and-juliet, shakespeare
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    William Shakespeare
    “Men's eyes were made to look, let them gaze, I will budge for no man's pleasure.”
    ― William Shakespeare
    tags: love, romance
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    William Shakespeare
    “The world is not thy friend, nor the world's law.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
    tags: government, law, romeo-and-juliet, shakespeare
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    E.M. Forster
    “You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish—not sit intending on a chair.”
    ― E.M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread
    tags: intention, purpose, resolve
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    E.M. Forster
    “Society is invincible—to a certain degree. But your real life is your own, and nothing can touch it. There is no power on earth that can prevent your criticizing and despising mediocrity—nothing that can stop you retreating into splendour and beauty—into the thoughts and beliefs that make the real life—the real you.”
    ― E M Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread
    tags: beauty, character, ideals, integrity, life, mediocrity, self, society, values
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    E.M. Forster
    “Italy is such a delightful place to live in if you happen to be a man. There one may enjoy that exquisite luxury of Socialism — that true Socialism which is based not on equality of income or character, but on the equality of manners.”
    ― E.M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread
    tags: equality, italy, socialism
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    “You will never assassinate my ghosts.”
    ― Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
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    William Shakespeare
    “It is silliness to live when to live is torment, and then have we a prescription to die when death is our physician.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Othello
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    Charles Darwin
    “Nevertheless so profound is our ignorance, and so high our presumption, that we marvel when we hear of the extinction of an organic being; and as we do not see the cause, we invoke cataclysms to desolate the world, or invent laws on the duration of the forms of life!”
    ― Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species
    tags: extinction, natural-selection, species
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    George R.R. Martin
    “In the game of thrones, even the humblest pieces can have wills of their own. Sometimes they refuse to make the moves you've planned for them.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Words are wind, Brienne told herself. They cannot hurt you. Let them wash over you.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows
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    Victor Hugo
    “If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness. (Monseigneur Bienvenu in _Les Miserables_)”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
    tags: blame
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    William Shakespeare
    “Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Macbeth
    tags: concealment, dark-plans, darkness, stealth
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Perhaps we can fly. All of us. How will we ever know unless we leap from some tall tower? No man ever truly knows what he can do unless he dares to leap.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows
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    Victor Hugo
    “Not being heard is no reason for silence.”
    ― Hugo, Victor, Les Misérables
    tags: inspirational
    2270 likes



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