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    Anaïs Nin
    “Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s. ”
    ― Anaïs Nin
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced--or seemed to face--the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: smiling
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    Anaïs Nin
    “The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.”
    ― Anais Nin
    tags: knowledge, mystery, sense-of-wonder, spirituality
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: greatness, insanity, intelligence, sanity
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    Roman Payne
    “She was free in her wildness. She was a wanderess, a drop of free water. She belonged to no man and to no city”
    ― Roman Payne, The Wanderess
    tags: empowerment, exploration, feminism, roman-payne, strong-women, the-wanderess, wander, wanderer, wanderess, wandering
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
    tags: art, books
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    Anaïs Nin
    “Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
    ― Anais Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
    tags: friendship
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë
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    Elizabeth Gaskell
    “He shrank from hearing Margaret's very name mentioned; he, while he blamed her – while he was jealous of her – while he renounced her – he loved her sorely, in spite of himself.”
    ― Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
    tags: love, romance, unrequited-love
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    Alan Alda
    “The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.”
    ― Alan Alda
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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    Emily Dickinson
    “I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.”
    ― Emily Dickinson
    tags: identity
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    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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    Anaïs Nin
    “There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene, as upon a stage, conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses, helplessness, despair, and present to the world only a smile, an eagerness, curiosity, enthusiasm, interest.”
    ― Anais Nin
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    Anaïs Nin
    “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
    ― Anais Nin
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    C.S. Lewis
    “A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
    tags: christianity, temptation
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    Victor Hugo
    “What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul”
    ― Victor Hugo , Les Misérables
    tags: love, soul, stars
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    Victor Hugo
    “Laughter is sunshine, it chases winter from the human face.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
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    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    “I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house."

    [Notebook, Oct. 10, 1842]”
    ― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The American Notebooks: The Centenary Edition
    tags: autumn, nature, sunshine
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    Elizabeth Gaskell
    “How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly.”
    ― Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters
    tags: evil, judgement, right
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    Charles Dickens
    “Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.”
    ― Charles Dickens
    tags: homecoming
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    Theodore Roethke
    “Deep in their roots all flowers keep the light.”
    ― Theodore Roethke
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    “I wish I could tell you how lonely I am. How cold and harsh it is here. Everywhere there is conflict and unkindness. I think God has forsaken this place. I believe I have seen hell and it's white, it's snow-white.”
    ― Sandy Welch
    tags: coldness, conflict, despair, harshness, hell, industrialization, loneliness, misattributed-elizabeth-gaskell, unkindness
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    Elizabeth Gaskell
    “A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.”
    ― Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
    tags: advice, children, education, friendship, guidance, independence, parenthood
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    C.S. Lewis
    “I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: forgiveness
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    Emily Dickinson
    “Bring me the sunset in a cup.”
    ― Emily Dickinson
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    Emily Dickinson
    “Pardon My Sanity In A World Insane”
    ― Emily Dickinson
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    Anaïs Nin
    “Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
    ― Anais Nin
    tags: death, love
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    Anaïs Nin
    “How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?”
    ― Anais Nin
    tags: independence, women
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    Anaïs Nin
    “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”
    ― Anais Nin
    tags: courage, life
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