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    Sylvia Plath
    “I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: books, life, limits
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    Alexander Pope
    “Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.”
    ― Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock
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    “I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.”
    ― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me
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    Roy T. Bennett
    “Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
    tags: improvement, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, leadership, learning, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-quotes, living, motivation, motivational, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking, success
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    Franz Kafka
    “Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: books, castle, self
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    Angela Carter
    “I am the lady of the castle. My name is exile. My name is anguish. My name is longing. Far from the world on the windy crests of the mountain, I am kept in absolute seclusion, my time passes in an endless reverie, a perpetual swooning. I am both the Sleeping Beauty and the enchanted castle; the princess drowses in the castle of her flesh.”
    ― Angela Carter, The Curious Room: Collected Dramatic Works
    tags: vampirella
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    Jane Austen
    “The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!”
    ― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
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    Jane Austen
    “The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.”
    ― Jane Austen, Love and Friendship
    tags: romance
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    Jane Austen
    “Till this moment I never knew myself.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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    Amal El-Mohtar
    “I love you. I love you. I love you. I'll write it in waves. In skies. In my heart. You'll never see, but you will know. I'll be all the poets, I'll kill them all and take each one's place in turn, and every time love's written in all the strands it will be to you.”
    ― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War
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    Charles Dickens
    “I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”
    ― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
    tags: love
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    Ali Hazelwood
    “carry yourself with the confidence of a mediocre white man”
    ― Ali Hazelwood, The Love Hypothesis
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    Sylvia Plath
    “And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: writing
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    The world was hers for the reading.
    “The world was hers for the reading.”
    ― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
    tags: books, feminist, reading
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “I feel as if I had opened a book and found roses of yesterday sweet and fragrant, between its leaves.”
    ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island
    tags: book, memory, roses
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    Confucius
    “Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.”
    ― Confucius
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    Émile Zola
    “I would rather die of passion than of boredom.”
    ― Émile Zola, The Ladies' Paradise
    tags: boredom, misattributed-vincent-van-gogh, passion
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    Albert Camus
    “There is scarcely any passion without struggle.”
    ― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
    tags: existentialism, passion, struggle
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    Joan Didion
    “Certain places seem to exist mainly because someone has written about them.”
    ― Joan Didion
    tags: authors, existence, joan-didion, literature, writing
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    Joan Didion
    “I am an anthropologist who lost faith in her own method, who stopped believing that observable activity defined anthropos.”
    ― Joan Didion, A Book of Common Prayer
    tags: anthropology, joan-didion, social-science
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    Joan Didion
    “Superstition prevails, fear that the fragile unfinished something will shatter, vanish, revert to the nothing from which it was made.”
    ― Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean
    tags: fear, joan-didion, let-me-tell-you-what-i-mean, philisophical, superstition
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    Albert Einstein
    “I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: 1929, viereck-interview
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    Maya Angelou
    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
    ― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “Don't laugh at the spinsters, dear girls, for often very tender, tragic romances are hidden away in the hearts that beat so quietly under the sober gowns, and many silent sacrifices of youth, health, ambition, love itself, make the faded faces beautiful in God's sight. Even the sad, sour sisters should be kindly dealt with, because they have missed the sweetest part of life, if for no other reason.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
    tags: spinsters, women
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “Don't try to make me grow up before my time…”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
    tags: growing-up, little-women, louisa-may-alcott
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “Let us be elegant or die!”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
    tags: femininity
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    Ocean Vuong
    “In a world myriad as ours, the gaze is a singular act: to look at something is to fill your whole life with it, if only briefly.”
    ― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
    tags: living-in-the-present, looking
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    Nicholas Sparks
    “The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. And that's what you've given me. That's what I'd hoped to give you forever”
    ― Nicholas Sparks
    tags: love, nicholas-sparks, romance, the-notebook
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    Nicholas Sparks
    “You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.”
    ― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
    tags: inspirational, the-notebook
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    Charles Dickens
    “Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.”
    ― Charles Dickens
    tags: kissing, love, romance
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