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    John Keats
    “I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.”
    ― John Keats, Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne
    tags: butterflies, days, fanny-brawne, fifty-common-years, letter, love, summer, three
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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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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    Jane Austen
    “I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: books, library, reading
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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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    Charles Dickens
    “You are in every line I have ever read.”
    ― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
    tags: pip
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    Charles Dickens
    “Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.”
    ― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
    tags: biography, opening-lines
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    David Suchet
    “This is one of the great charms of Poirot’s investigations, for they reveal a world where manners and morals are quite different from today. There are no overt and unnecessary sex scenes, no alcoholic, haunted detectives in Poirot’s world. He lives in a simpler, some would say more human, era: a lost England, seen through the admiring eyes of this foreigner, this little Belgian detective.”
    ― David Suchet, Poirot and Me
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    “You can only trust your emotions as you can lie to yourself with your brain but not your heart.”
    ― Carl White
    tags: brain, emotions, heart, heartache, heartbreak, life, life-philosophy, love, love-quotes, lovers, pain, relationships, trust
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
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    Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    “I got to thinking that poems were like people. Some people you got right off the bat. Some people you just didn't get--and never would get.”
    ― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
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    Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    “Words were different when they lived inside of you.”
    ― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
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    John Lennon
    “I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?”
    ― John Lennon
    tags: beatles, dragons, dreamers, dreaming, dreams, fairies, faith, mythology, nightmares, reality, truth
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “He stands not alone. You would die before your stroke fell.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
    tags: legolas
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    Oscar Wilde
    “It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: books, reading
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: life
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    Jessie Burton
    “Every woman is the architect of her own fortune.”
    ― Jessie Burton, The Miniaturist
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    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Anthony Powell
    “Books do furnish a room.”
    ― Anthony Powell, Dance to the Music of Time
    tags: books, furnishing, furniture
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    Werner Herzog
    “What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.”
    ― Werner Herzog
    tags: dreams, monsters, ocean, sleep
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    Anne Brontë
    “Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.”
    ― Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
    tags: books, hobby, leisure, reading
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    Stephen King
    “you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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    Toni Morrison
    “If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
    ― Toni Morrison
    tags: books, writing
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    Elizabeth von Arnim
    “What a blessing it is to love books.”
    ― Elizabeth von Arnim, The Solitary Summer
    tags: book-lovers, reading
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    Daphne du Maurier
    “But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”
    ― Daphne du Maurier
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    Lewis Carroll
    “It's always tea-time.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
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  • #28
    “Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.”
    ― Steven Spielberg
    tags: education, reading
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    Edith Sitwell
    “Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.”
    ― Edith Sitwell
    tags: comfort, home, winter
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    Frances Hodgson Burnett
    “She made herself stronger by fighting with the wind.”
    ― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
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    Victor Hugo
    “He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
    6890 likes



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