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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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    John Lennon
    “Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”
    ― John Lennon
    tags: happiness, timelessness, wisdom
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  • #3
    Oscar Wilde
    “Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories
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    W.H. Auden
    “We must love one another or die”
    ― W.H. Auden
    tags: love
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  • #5
    Oscar Wilde
    “Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: love, ordinary, people
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  • #6
    Kahlil Gibran
    “Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.”
    ― Kahlil Gibran
    tags: inner-beauty, nobility-of-spirit, soulful
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  • #7
    Lemony Snicket
    “It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.”
    ― Lemony Snicket
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  • #8
    John Locke
    “Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
    ― John Locke
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  • #9
    “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
    ― S.G. Tallentyre, The Friends of Voltaire
    tags: disagreement, evelyn-beatrice-hall, freedom-of-speech, freedom-of-thought, misattributed-to-voltaire
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  • #10
    Christine Feehan
    “The trouble is not really in being alone, it's being lonely. One can be lonely in the midst of a crowd, don't you think?”
    ― Christine Feehan, Dark Prince
    tags: alone, crowd, lonely
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  • #11
    Rudyard Kipling
    “Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
    ― Rudyard Kipling
    tags: words
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  • #12
    Anthony Powell
    “I get a warm feeling among my books.”
    ― Anthony Powell
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  • #13
    Shel Silverstein
    “Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy.”
    ― Shel Silverstein, The Giving Tree
    tags: self-sacrifice
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  • #14
    Hermann Hesse
    “Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.”
    ― Herman Hesse
    tags: steppenwolf
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  • #15
    Ashly Lorenzana
    “We judge others instantly by their clothes, their cars, their appearance, their race, their education, their social status. The list is endless. What gets me is that most people decide who another person is before they have even spoken to them. What's even worse is that these same people decide who someone else is, and don't even know who they are themselves.”
    ― Ashly Lorenzana
    tags: impressions, judgement, life, opinions, people, self-awareness
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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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  • #17
    Henry David Thoreau
    “Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
    tags: truth, values
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: heart, importance, inspiration, secret, the-little-prince
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    Gitika yadav
    “Confidence is not what others think about you, it's what you think about yourself”
    ― Gitika Yadav, Voice of thoughts
    tags: confidence, inspirational, life, motivation
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  • #20
    Jennifer Donnelly
    “Love-real love- sees with the heart, master. Not with the eyes."
    The Beast looked at him skeptically. "How do you know that?"
    "Because I'm in love with a woman who's a feather duster," said Lumiere. "That's how.”
    ― Jennifer Donnelly, Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book
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    Michael G. Manning
    “Stupid never dies.”
    ― Michael G. Manning
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  • #22
    Michael G. Manning
    “Quite a bit of his swearing was pure nautical genius.”
    ― Michael G. Manning, The Line of Illeniel
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    Michael G. Manning
    “The key word is shouldn’t,” he said grimly. “It isn’t a word I like to hear when it comes to battle. That word has killed more men than any other word, except perhaps one.” He waited for my inevitable question. I sighed and asked, “What word is that?” “Charge,” he replied with a smile.”
    ― Michael G. Manning, The Line of Illeniel
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    Cherie Priest
    “And people tended not to bother a woman with a book.”
    ― Cherie Priest, Dreadnought
    tags: women
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    Cherie Priest
    “OMG YOU GUYS it has come to my attention that SOMEONE on the internet is saying that my fictional 19th century zombies are NOT SCIENTIFICALLY SOUND. Naturally, I am crushed. To think, IF ONLY I’d consulted with a zombologist or two before sitting down to write, I could’ve avoided ALL THIS EMBARRASSMENT.”
    ― Cherie Priest
    tags: steampunk, zombies
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    Cherie Priest
    “It's funny what they say about men in uniform - how people think women just can't resist 'em. Fact is, I think we're just pleased to see a man groomed, bathed, and wearing clothes that fit him.”
    ― Cherie Priest, Dreadnought
    tags: humor, men-in-uniform
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  • #27
    Sanai
    “This too shall pass.”
    ― Hakim Sanai
    tags: endurance, proverbs
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  • #28
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
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  • #29
    Ayn Rand
    “[Dean] “My dear fellow, who will let you?”

    [Roark] “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
    ― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
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  • #30
    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: books, friends, novelist-quotes
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