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    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: inspirational, love
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Stories and Poems
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind”
    ― Edgar Allen Poe
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina
    tags: family, first-sentence
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “I think... if it is true that
    there are as many minds as there
    are heads, then there are as many
    kinds of love as there are hearts.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: care, diversity, heart, individuality, love, mind, seduction, soul
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: romantic
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    Susan Cain
    “There's zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas.”
    ― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
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    Susan Cain
    “Solitude matters, and for some people, it's the air they breathe”
    ― Susan Cain
    tags: introverts
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Salvador Dalí
    “Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.”
    ― Salvador Dali
    tags: failure, fear, imperfection, mistakes, perfection, success
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    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
    ― Napoleon Bonaparte
    tags: enemies, mistakes, strategy
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    Sui Ishida
    “If you were to write a story with me in the lead role, it would certainly be... a tragedy”
    ― Sui Ishida, Tokyo Ghoul, Tome 1
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    Elisabetta Gnone
    “Siamo tutti diversi a questo mondo. [...] Da vicino, perché da lontano, invece, siamo tutti uguali. Per questo io sto in aria.”
    ― Elisabetta Gnone, Olga di carta: Il viaggio straordinario
    tags: diversity, flying
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    Ska W. Barnes
    “Erano persona nate dal dolore.”
    ― Ska W. Barnes, Chasm: secrets you keep
    tags: fantasy-young-adult
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
    tags: happiness, pain, peace, scar, sweetness
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden
    tags: happiness
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: freedom, women, writing
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    Soon Kki
    “To escape, you have to be tougher and wiser than them.”
    ― Soon Kki, Cheese in the Trap, Season 2
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    Naomi Shihab Nye
    “Being good felt like a heavy coat, so I took it off.”
    ― Naomi Shihab Nye
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Demons
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “In sinning, each man sins against all, and each man is at least partly guilty for another's sin. There is no isolated sin.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Demons
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “My friend, the truth is always implausible, did you know that? To make the truth more plausible, it's absolutely necessary to mix a bit of falsehood with it. People have always done so.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Demons
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “I do not wish you much happiness--it would bore you; I do not wish you trouble either; but, following the people's philosophy, I will simply repeat: 'Live more' and try somehow not to be too bored; this useless wish I am adding on my own.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Demons
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “God is the pain of the fear of death”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons
    tags: kirillov
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “One must be a great man indeed to be able to hold out even against common sense."
    "Or else a fool.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Demons
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “It must be true that the whole second half of a man's life is most often made up only of habits accumulated during the first half.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Demons
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Full freedom will come only when it makes no difference whether to live or not to live. That’s the goal for everyone.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Demons
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