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    Ian McEwan
    “She lay in the dark and knew everything.”
    ― Ian McEwan, Atonement
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    Ian McEwan
    “Nothing that can be, can come between me and the full prospect of my hopes.”
    ― Ian McEwan, Atonement
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    Ian McEwan
    “i'm going mad, i told myself. let me not be mad.”
    ― Ian McEwan, Atonement
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    Ian McEwan
    “The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return”
    ― Ian McEwan, Atonement
    tags: daydreaming
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Boscombe Valley Mystery - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story
    tags: deception, detection, evidence, facts, obviousness, sherlock-holmes
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    Agatha Christie
    “Very few of us are what we seem.”
    ― Agatha Christie, The Man in the Mist
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    Agatha Christie
    “One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.”
    ― Agatha Christie
    tags: reflection
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    Jane Austen
    “but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
    ― Jane Austen
    tags: books, catherine, or-the-bower
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I'm a cynical idealist.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
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    Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    “Missing a train is only painful if you run after it.”
    ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
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    Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    “Remember that you are a Black Swan.”
    ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
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    Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    “Read books are far less valuable than unread ones.”
    ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
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    Agatha Christie
    “Time is the best killer.”
    ― Agatha Christie
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    Agatha Christie
    “In the midst of life, we are in death.”
    ― Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None
    tags: death, life
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    Agatha Christie
    “Words, madmoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas.”
    ― Agatha Christie, The A.B.C. Murders
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    Agatha Christie
    “It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting.”
    ― Agatha Christie, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
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    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.”
    ― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
    tags: curiosity
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    Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    “Love without sacrifice is like theft”
    ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
    tags: compromise, love, manipulation, marriage, marriage-advice, narcissism, narcissists, passive-aggressive, passive-aggressiveness, real-love, relationships, sacrifice, true-love
    427 likes

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    Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    “Prediction, not narration, is the real test of our understanding of the world.”
    ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
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    Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    “You can tell how uninteresting a person is by asking him whom he finds interesting.”
    ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
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    Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    “It is not what you are telling people, it is how you are saying it.”
    ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
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    Walter Tevis
    “She was alone, and she liked it. It was the way she had learned everything important in her life.”
    ― Walter Tevis, The Queen's Gambit
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    Walter Tevis
    “The strongest person is the person who isn’t scared to be alone.”
    ― Walter Tevis, The Queen's Gambit
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    Walter Tevis
    “What you know is not always important.”
    ― Walter Tevis , The Queen's Gambit
    tags: books, drama, inspirational, melodrama, novel, queen, reading
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    Lewis Carroll
    “Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
    tags: alice-in-wonderland, breakfast, carroll
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    Lewis Carroll
    “Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.”
    ― Lewis Carroll , Alice in Wonderland
    tags: alice-in-wonderland, introspection, self-discovery
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    Lewis Carroll
    “Curiouser and curiouser!”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
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    Lewis Carroll
    “have i gone mad?
    im afraid so, but let me tell you something, the best people usualy are.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
    tags: humor
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    Lewis Carroll
    “We're all mad here.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
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    Lewis Carroll
    “I'm afraid I can't explain myself, sir. Because I am not myself, you see?”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
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