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    Sylvia Plath
    “I told him I believed in hell, and that certain people, like me, had to live in hell before they died, to make up for missing out on it after death, since they didn't believe in life after death, and what each person believed happened to him when he died.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
    tags: death, hell, profound
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    “And, in the end
    The love you take
    is equal to the love you make.”
    ― Paul McCartney, The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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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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    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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    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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  • #7
    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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  • #8
    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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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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  • #10
    Bob Marley
    “One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”
    ― Bob Marley
    tags: music
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  • #11
    Victor Hugo
    “Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”
    ― Victor Hugo
    tags: literature, music, poetry
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  • #12
    “People haven't always been there for me but music always has.”
    ― Taylor Swift
    tags: music
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    Bob Marley
    “None but ourselves can free our minds.”
    ― Bob Marley
    tags: bob-marley, inspirational, music, reggae
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    Maya Angelou
    “Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: loneliness, music, refuge
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    Langston Hughes
    “Life is for the living.
    Death is for the dead.
    Let life be like music.
    And death a note unsaid.”
    ― Langston Hughes, The Collected Poems
    tags: death, life, music
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  • #16
    “We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.”
    ― Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy, Poems of Arthur O'Shaughnessy
    tags: dreams, music
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
    THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
    FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
    WAS MUSIC”
    ― kurt vonnegut
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    Nick Hornby
    “People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.”
    ― Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
    tags: music, sad
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.”
    ― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
    tags: dance, dancing, music
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    John Green
    “Some people have lives; some people have music.”
    ― John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
    tags: humor, life, music
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  • #21
    “Music is to the soul what words are to the mind.”
    ― Modest Mouse, Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News
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  • #22
    Jack Kerouac
    “The only truth is music.”
    ― Jack Kerouac
    tags: music, truth
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  • #23
    Aaron Copland
    “To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.”
    ― Aaron Copland
    tags: music
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    Maya Angelou
    “Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances. ”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: music
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  • #25
    Suzanne Collins
    “Because when he sings...even the birds stop to listen.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
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    Emma Goldman
    “If I can't dance to it, it's not my revolution.”
    ― Emma Goldman
    tags: anarchy, music, revolution
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  • #27
    Blink-182
    “the past is only the future with the lights on.”
    ― Mark Hoppus, blink-182: Tales from Beneath Your Mom
    tags: music
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
    78307 likes

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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
    77748 likes

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  • #30
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
    151410 likes



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