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    Holly Black
    “If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse.”
    ― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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    Elbert Hubbard
    “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
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    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
    129551 likes

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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
    149332 likes

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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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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
    130812 likes

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  • #12
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
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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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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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    Steve Jobs
    “Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
    ― Steve Jobs
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    Stephanie Perkins
    “For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.”
    ― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss
    tags: home, love, relationships, touching
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    Stephanie Perkins
    “The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.”
    ― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss
    tags: acceptance, life
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    Stephanie Perkins
    “Is it possible for home to be a person and not a place?”
    ― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss
    tags: home, lover, person
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  • #20
    “By prettifying me, they wound me in shrouds that went over my mouth, but not my eyes.”
    ― Joanna Briscoe, To Hold: A Short Story from the collection, Reader, I Married Him
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    Salley Vickers
    “Suddenly, all that was present to me was the two of us, facing the people we had become on the threshold of eternity.”
    ― Salley Vickers, Reader, She Married Me: A Short Story from the collection, Reader, I Married Him
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    Sayaka Murata
    “The normal world has no room for exceptions and always quietly eliminates foreign objects. Anyone who is lacking is disposed of.

    So that’s why I need to be cured. Unless I’m cured, normal people will expurgate me. Finally I understood why my family had tried so hard to fix me.”
    ― Sayaka Murata, Convenience Store Woman
    tags: normal, society
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    Sayaka Murata
    “People who are considered normal enjoy putting those who aren't on trial, you know.”
    ― Sayaka Murata, コンビニ人間 [Konbini ningen]
    tags: conformity, differences, fear, normal
    94 likes

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    Sayaka Murata
    “The normal world has no room for exceptions and always quietly eliminates foreign objects. Anyone who is lacking is disposed of.”
    ― Sayaka Murata, Convenience Store Woman
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  • #25
    Madeline Miller
    “I do not think anyone can say what is in someone else.”
    ― Madeline Miller, Circe
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    Madeline Miller
    “Bold action and bold manner are not the same.”
    ― Madeline Miller, Circe
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    Madeline Miller
    “Fear of failure was the worst thing for any spell.”
    ― Madeline Miller, Circe
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    Madeline Miller
    “But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.”
    ― Madeline Miller, Circe
    tags: circe, constellations, daedalus, greek-mythology, love, stars
    3795 likes

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    Madeline Miller
    “He showed me his scars, and in return he let me pretend that I had none.”
    ― Madeline Miller, Circe
    tags: circe, greek-mythology, intimacy, love, odysseus, scars, vulnerability
    2032 likes

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    Madeline Miller
    “Humbling women seems to me a chief pastime of poets. As if there can be no story unless we crawl and weep.”
    ― Madeline Miller, Circe
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