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    John Milton
    “The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
    ― John Milton, Paradise Lost
    tags: inspirational, religion
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    T.S. Eliot
    “These fragments I have shored against my ruins”
    ― T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land and Other Poems
    tags: age, aging, fall, nostalgia, past
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: book, inspirational
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    Anthony Burgess
    “Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?”
    ― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
    tags: dystopia
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    William Goldman
    “Inconceivable!"
    "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
    ― William Goldman, The Princess Bride
    tags: bride, funny, humor, movie, princess
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    Anthony Burgess
    “What's it going to be then, eh?”
    ― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
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    Geoffrey Chaucer
    “You are the cause by which I die.”
    ― Geoffrey Chaucer, The Knight's Tale
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    John Green
    “He called out to his fellow monks,'Come quickly I am tasting stars.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: amsterdam, champage, the-fault-in-our-stars, the-fault-in-our-starsn
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    Douglas Coupland
    “...blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos. ”
    ― Douglas Coupland, All Families are Psychotic
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    T.S. Eliot
    “All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance,
    All our ignorance brings us nearer to death,
    But nearness to death no nearer to God.
    Where is the life we have lost in living?
    Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
    Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?”
    ― T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land and Other Poems
    tags: ignorance, knowledge, spirit, t-s-eliot, wisdom
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    T.S. Eliot
    “For last year's words belong to last year's language
    And next year's words await another voice.”
    ― T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
    tags: language, new-year, voice, words
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    T.S. Eliot
    “We shall not cease from exploration
    And the end of all our exploring
    Will be to arrive where we started
    And know the place for the first time.”
    ― T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets
    tags: life-experience, poetry, self-discovery, wisdom
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    T.S. Eliot
    “I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.”
    ― T.S. Eliot
    tags: inspirational, meditation
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    T.S. Eliot
    “We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger.”
    ― T.S. Eliot, The Cocktail Party
    tags: relationships
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    T.S. Eliot
    “Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.”
    ― T.S. Eliot
    tags: evil, good-intentions, morality
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    T.S. Eliot
    “Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.”
    ― T.S. Eliot
    tags: epistemology, poetry
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    T.S. Eliot
    “What is hell? Hell is oneself.
    Hell is alone, the other figures in it
    Merely projections. There is nothing to escape from
    And nothing to escape to. One is always alone.”
    ― T.S. Eliot
    tags: hell, loneliness
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    T.S. Eliot
    “Unreal friendship may turn to real
    But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended”
    ― T.S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral
    tags: friends, friendship
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    T.S. Eliot
    “If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.”
    ― T.S. Eliot
    tags: inspirational
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    Bertrand Russell
    “The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”
    ― Bertrand Russell
    tags: doubt, intelligent, problems, smart, stupid, world
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
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    J.D. Salinger
    “Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be.”
    ― J.D. Salinger
    tags: holden, holden-caulfield, hope, run, save
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    It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our
    “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
    tags: abilities
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    Stephen Chbosky
    “So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: charlie, favourite-books, inspirational, sad, soul-searching, wallflower
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    Stephen Chbosky
    “Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: change, life
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    William Goldman
    “You seem a decent fellow," Inigo said. "I hate to kill you."
    You seem a decent fellow," answered the man in black. "I hate to die.”
    ― William Goldman, The Princess Bride
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    John Green
    “The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
    ― John Green, Looking for Alaska
    tags: compassion, life, suffering
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    John Green
    “Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”
    ― John Green, Looking for Alaska
    tags: inspirational
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    Walt Whitman
    “Do I contradict myself?
    Very well then I contradict myself,
    (I am large, I contain multitudes.)”
    ― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
    tags: change
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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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