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    Jarod Kintz
    “I want to write my own eulogy, and I want to write it in Latin. It seems only fitting to read a dead language at my funeral.”
    ― Jarod Kintz, I Want
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    Rick Riordan
    “People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth
    tags: machines, people
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    Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
    “The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.”
    ― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
    tags: adversity, beauty, empathy, people, understanding
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    C. JoyBell C.
    “We have to allow ourselves to be loved by the people who really love us, the people who really matter. Too much of the time, we are blinded by our own pursuits of people to love us, people that don't even matter, while all that time we waste and the people who do love us have to stand on the sidewalk and watch us beg in the streets! It's time to put an end to this. It's time for us to let ourselves be loved.”
    ― C. JoyBell C.
    tags: growing, humanity, inspirational, inspirational-life, inspirational-love, inspirational-quotes, learning, life-and-living, life-lessons, love, people, real-love, reality, reality-of-life, those-who-love-us, to-be-loved, true-love, what-matters
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    Libba Bray
    “You can never really know someone completely. That’s why it’s the most terrifying thing in the world, really—taking someone on faith, hoping they’ll take you on faith too. It’s such a precarious balance, It’s a wonder we do it at all. And yet..”
    ― Libba Bray
    tags: faith, people
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Hell is—other people!”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit
    tags: garcin, hell, people
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    Haruki Murakami
    “Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another?
    We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the end, how close can we come to that person's essence? We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone?”
    ― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
    tags: essence, friendship, important, love, people, philosophy, possibility, thought
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    Dan Brown
    “Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.”
    ― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code
    tags: desire, fear, human-nature
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    Lemony Snicket
    “There are two kinds of fears: rational and irrational- or in simpler terms, fears that make sense and fears that don't.”
    ― Lemony Snicket
    tags: fear
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    George R.R. Martin
    “There's no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
    tags: fear
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    Ally Carter
    “It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth.”
    ― Ally Carter, Heist Society
    tags: lies, truth
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    “If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.”
    ― Walter Langer
    tags: lies, paraphrased
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    Jarod Kintz
    “She says he says, but she could be lying to me, and he could be lying to her, so I can’t believe her, even if I could believe her.”
    ― Jarod Kintz, This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks
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    Michael Jackson
    “Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons.”
    ― Michael Jackson
    tags: lies, truth
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    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
    tags: lies, truth
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    Ray Bradbury
    “But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
    tags: lies, lying, truth, willful-ignorance
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    Jeanette Winterson
    “In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie.”
    ― Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
    tags: books, library, lies, people, reading, words
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    Jennifer Salaiz
    “How 'bout a shot of truth in that denial cocktail.”
    ― Jennifer Salaiz
    tags: denial, hate, lies, love, sarcasm, truth
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    Miguel de Unamuno
    “At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not convince. For to convince you need to persuade. And in order to persuade you would need what you lack: Reason and Right”
    ― Miguel de Unamuno
    tags: lies, lying, reason, silence, truth
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    Lauren DeStefano
    “Because even if the lie is beautiful, the truth is what you face in the end.”
    ― Lauren DeStefano, Fever
    tags: lies, truth
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    Pedro Calderón de la Barca
    “In this treacherous world
    Nothing is the truth nor a lie.
    Everything depends on the color
    Of the crystal through which one sees it”
    ― Pedro Calderón de la Barca
    tags: absolutes, evil, good, lies, perception, truth
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    Aldous Huxley
    “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929
    tags: fact, ignorance, truth
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    Lemony Snicket
    “If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
    tags: humor, talking, writers
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    Lemony Snicket
    “When someone is crying, of course, the noble thing to do is to comfort them. But if someone is trying to hide their tears, it may also be noble to pretend you do not notice them.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
    tags: comfort, crying, tears
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    Lemony Snicket
    “It is difficult, when faced with a situation you cannot control, to admit you can do nothing.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
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    Lemony Snicket
    “If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say in a pleasant and hopeful voice, "Well this isn't too bad, I don't have a left arm anymore but at least nobody will ever ask me if I'm left-handed or right-handed," but most of us would say something more along the lines of, "Aaaaaa! My arm! My arm!”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
    tags: humor, optimist
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    Lemony Snicket
    “I don't know if you've ever noticed this, but first impressions are often entirely wrong.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning
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    Albert Camus
    “But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”
    ― Albert Camus
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    Cornelia Funke
    “Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?" Mo had said..."As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells...and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower...both strange and familiar.”
    ― Cornelia Funke, Inkspell
    tags: books, feelings, reading, thoughts
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    Nicholas Sparks
    “Emotions come and go and can't be controlled so there's no reason to worry about them. That in the end, people should be judged by their actions since in the end it was actions that defined everyone.”
    ― Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song
    tags: feelings
    724 likes



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