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    Roald Dahl
    “And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
    ― Roald Dahl
    tags: believe, glittering-eyes, hidden, magic, secrets, unlikely-places, watch, world
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    Stephen King
    “Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
    tags: books, magic, reading
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    J.K. Rowling
    “I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.”
    ― J.K. Rowling
    tags: books, magic, magic-books
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    J.K. Rowling
    “We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination
    tags: magic
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Ah, music," he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic beyond all we do here!”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: dumbledore, magic, music, power-of-music
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    Tom Robbins
    “...disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business....”
    ― Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
    tags: humor, magic
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    Laini Taylor
    “Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.”
    ― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone
    tags: hope, hopelessness, magic
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    W.B. Yeats
    “The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”
    ― W.B. Yeats
    tags: awe, magic, perception, wonder
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    It's still magic even if you know how it's done.
    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky
    tags: magic, technology
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    Christopher Moore
    “Children see magic because they look for it.”
    ― Christopher Moore, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal
    tags: child, children, imagination, magic, search
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    Nora Roberts
    “Magic exists. Who can doubt it, when there are rainbows and wildflowers, the music of the wind and the silence of the stars? Anyone who has loved has been touched by magic. It is such a simple and such an extraordinary part of the lives we live.”
    ― Nora Roberts
    tags: life, magic, music, stars
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    R.A. Salvatore
    “No, I would not want to live in a world without dragons, as I would not want to live in a world without magic, for that is a world without mystery, and that is a world without faith.”
    ― R.A. Salvatore, Streams of Silver
    tags: dragon, faith, magic, mystery, world
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.”
    ― J.K. Rowling , Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
    tags: age, family
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.”
    ― JK Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
    tags: death, love
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    Anaïs Nin
    “Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.”
    ― Anaïs Nin, Incest: From "A Journal of Love": The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1932-1934
    tags: ecstasy, escape, freedom, intoxication, reality
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    Paulo Coelho
    “Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
    tags: freedom
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    Rabindranath Tagore
    “I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.”
    ― Rabindranath Tagore
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    Rabindranath Tagore
    “The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition”
    ― Tagore, Rabindranath
    tags: ambition, human-nature, life, love, truth
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
    tags: civil-rights, free-speech, free-will, freedom, intelligence, liberty, stupidity
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    Charles Bukowski
    “Do you hate people?”

    “I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Barfly
    tags: humour, misanthropy, paraphrased
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    Marjorie Pay Hinckley
    “The only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache.”
    ― Marjorie Pay Hinckley
    tags: humour, wisdom
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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
    “Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: faith
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    Lauren Kate
    “Sometimes beautiful things come into our lives out of nowhere. We can't always understand them, but we have to trust in them. I know you want to question everything, but sometimes it pays to just have a little faith.”
    ― Lauren Kate, Torment
    tags: beautiful, faith
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    Sarah Dessen
    “There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”
    ― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
    tags: love
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    Albert Einstein
    “The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”
    ― Albert Einstein, The World As I See It
    tags: 1931, art, mystery, philosophy, science
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    Benjamin Spock
    “Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”
    ― Benjamin Spock
    tags: parenting, philosophy, self-assurance
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    Bob Marley
    “Who are you to judge the life I live?
    I know I'm not perfect
    -and I don't live to be-
    but before you start pointing fingers...
    make sure you hands are clean!”
    ― Bob Marley
    tags: judge, life, live, perfection
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    Jimi Hendrix
    “I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.”
    ― Jimi Hendrix, The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold as Love | Guitar TAB Sheet Music Collection | Note-for-Note Transcriptions for Electric Guitar Players | Classic Psychedelic Rock Solos
    tags: death, life
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears.
    "After all this time?"
    "Always," said Snape.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    tags: dumbledore, life, love, snape
    19274 likes



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