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#1

“I don't think I could love you so much if you had nothing to complain of and nothing to regret. I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and of little value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.”
― Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

tags: regret

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#2

“The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

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#3

“If you're not paying for something, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold.”
― Andrew Lewis

tags: attention, internet, social-media

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#4

“It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

tags: ads, advertising, anxiety

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#5

“The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

tags: freedom, truth

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#6

“They should have never given us uniforms if they didn't want us to be an army.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

tags: army, uniforms

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#7

“You are what you love. No? You are, completely and only, what you would die for without, as you say, the thinking twice.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

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#8

“Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

tags: education

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#9

“Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

tags: better

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#10

“A word after a word after a word is power.”
― Margaret Atwood

tags: reading, writing

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#11

“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
― Joseph Campbell

tags: change, life, open-heart, open-mind, resilience

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#12

“To know one’s own state is not a simple matter. One cannot look directly at one’s own face with one’s own eyes, for example. One has no choice but to look at one’s reflection in the mirror. Through experience, we come to believe that the image is correct, but that is all.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

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#13

“That’s the funny thing about arriving somewhere, Vin,” he said with a wink. “Once you’re there, the only thing you can really do is leave again.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

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#14

“Our belief is often strongest when it should be weakest. That is the nature of hope.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

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#15

“Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?'
'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

tags: bravery, courage, fear

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#16

“The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

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#17

“Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.”
― Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

tags: creativity, discovery, nobel-laureate, science, thinking

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#18

“I wait for the kind of sense that dawn makes, when you have not slept.”
― Anne Enright

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#19

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: truth

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#20

“There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: conditions, life

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#21

“Better to be at home in room and garden with ugly people than belong to strangers.”
― Herta Muller

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#22

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

tags: books, thought

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#23

“We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

tags: health, humanity

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#24

“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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#25

“It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.”
― Franz Kafka, The Trial

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#26

“It's good when food tastes good, it's kind of like proof you're alive.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

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#27

“Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.”
― Jodi Picoult, Lone Wolf

tags: inspirational, jodi-picoult, lone-wolf, wise

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#28

“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: books, reading, we-are-what-we-eat, we-are-what-we-read, you-are-what-you-eat, you-are-what-you-read

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#29

“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.”
― Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

tags: inspirational

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#30

“I never feel so much myself as when I'm in a hot bath.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

tags: bathtub

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