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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Haruki Murakami
    “Time moves in it special way in the middle of the night.”
    ― Haruki murakami , After Dark
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    José Saramago
    “I don't think we did go blind, I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see.”
    ― José Saramago, Blindness
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    Leigh Bardugo
    “You are strong enough to survive the fall”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars
    tags: fall, inspiration, leigh-bardugo, painful, strong, zoya-nazyalensky
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    R.F. Kuang
    “That's just what translation is, I think. That's all speaking is. Listening to the other and trying to see past your own biases to glimpse what they're trying to say. Showing yourself to the world, and hoping someone else understands.”
    ― R.F. Kuang, Babel
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    Leigh Bardugo
    “Tell me it’s more than war and worry that makes you speak those words. Tell me what they would mean if you weren’t a king and I weren’t a soldier.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves
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    Leigh Bardugo
    “I would give you a crown if I could," he said. "I would show you the world from the prow of a ship. I would choose you, Zoya. As my general, as my friend, as my bride. I would give you a sapphire the size of an acorn." He reached into his pocket. "And all I would ask in return is that you wear this damnable ribbon in your hair on our wedding day.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves
    tags: nikolai-lanstov, rule-of-wolves, zoya-nazyalensky, zoyalai
    363 likes

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    Haruki Murakami
    “If you don’t know something, go to the library and look it up.”
    ― Haruki Murakami
    tags: strange-library
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    Haruki Murakami
    “I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
    tags: pain
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    Haruki Murakami
    “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
    ― haruki murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
    tags: inspirational, running
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    Haruki Murakami
    “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Say you’re running and you think, ‘Man, this hurts, I can’t take it anymore. The ‘hurt’ part is an unavoidable reality, but whether or not you can stand anymore is up to the runner himself.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
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    Haruki Murakami
    “If you're young and talented, it's like you have wings.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
    tags: page-80, talent, writing, youth
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    Haruki Murakami
    “Deep rivers run quiet.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
    tags: feelings, life, love, shyness
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    Haruki Murakami
    “When I'm running I don't have to talk to anybody and don't have to listen to anybody. This is a part of my day I can't do without.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
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    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life
    47112 likes

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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “You see, but you do not observe.”
    ― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Scandal in Bohemia
    tags: kindlehighlight
    1865 likes

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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.”
    ― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, His Last Bow
    tags: sherlock-holmes
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story
    tags: dr-watson, introduction, sherlock-holmes
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
    tags: inspirational
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    James Herriot
    “If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.”
    ― James Herriot , All Creatures Great and Small
    tags: animals, gratitude, love, loyalty, soul
    806 likes

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    James Herriot
    “A farmer once told me one of the greatest luxuries of his life was to wake up early only to go back to sleep again.”
    ― James Herriot
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    James Herriot
    “I seem to have spent a good part of my life - probably too much – in just standing and staring.”
    ― James Herriot
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    James Herriot
    “This old man had once told me that he left school when he was twelve, whereas I had spent most of the twenty-four years in my life in study. Yet when I looked back on the last hour or so I could come to only one conclusion. I'd had more of books, but he had more of learning.”
    ― James Herriot, All Things Wise and Wonderful
    tags: education, knowledge
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    James Herriot
    “When all t'world goes one road, I go t'other.”
    ― James Herriot, All Creatures Great and Small
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    James Herriot
    “Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.”
    ― James Herriot, James Herriot's Cat Stories
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    José Saramago
    “If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?”
    ― José Saramago, Blindness
    tags: regret, regrets, sincerity
    2286 likes

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    José Saramago
    “the only thing more terrifying than blindness is being the only one who can see.”
    ― José Saramago, Blindness
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    José Saramago
    “blindness is a private matter between a person and the eyes with which he or she was born.”
    ― José Saramago, Blindness
    tags: blindness, inspiration, privacy
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    José Saramago
    “Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.”
    ― José Saramago, Blindness
    tags: self-determination, soul
    1746 likes

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    José Saramago
    “there is nothing in this world that belongs to us in an absolute sense,”
    ― José Saramago, Blindness
    32 likes



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