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#1

“Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.”
― Baltasar Gracian, The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle

tags: choice, evil, invitation, strategy

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#2

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

tags: humor, life

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#3

“You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.”
― Annie Proulx

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#4

“‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
― Voltaire

tags: inspirational

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#5

“The heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.”
― Noah Webster

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#6

“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”
― William Arthur Ward

tags: realist

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#7

“She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.”
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

tags: words

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#8

“Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.”
― Alan Watts

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#9

“There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

tags: conscience, politics, right

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#10

“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

tags: memories

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#11

“We must love one another or die”
― W.H. Auden

tags: love

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#12

“The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.”
― Edward Gibbon

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#13

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

tags: freedom, women, writing

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#14

“I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

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#15

“My only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully, and yell for help if you need it.”
― Judy Blume

tags: inspirational, life

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#16

“Laugh all you want and cry all you want and whistle at pretty men in the street and to hell with anybody who thinks you're a damned fool!”
― Armistead Maupin, More Tales of the City

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#17

“In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.”
― John Grisham

tags: inspirational-life

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#18

“I decided it is better to scream. Silence is the real crime against humanity.”
― Nadezhda Mandelstam, Hope Against Hope

tags: silence, voice

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#19

“We are each the authors of our own lives, Emma. We live in what we have created. There is no way to shift the blame and no one else to accept the accolades.”
― Barbara Taylor Bradford, A Woman of Substance

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#20

“I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.”
― Lillian Hellman

tags: integrity

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#21

“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image.”
― Thomas Merton, The Way of Chuang Tzu

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#22

“Love can make even nice people do awful things.”
― Jude Deveraux

tags: an-angel-for-emily, emily-todd

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#25

“One needs no strange spiritual faith to worship the earth.”
― John Cowper Powys

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#26

“What's the good of living if you don't try a few things?”
― Charles M. Schulz

tags: cartoonist, humor, inspirational

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#27

“Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

tags: humor

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#28

“It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

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#29

“Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones.”
― Antonin Artaud

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#30

“...you can hate a place with all your heart and soul and still be homesick for it.”
― Joseph Mitchell

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#31

“Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.”
― Dave Eggers

tags: books, time

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#32

“Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.”
― Thomas Keneally, Schindler’s List

tags: humanity, life

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