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#1

“I do believe in an everyday sort of magic -- the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience with places, people, works of art and the like; the eerie appropriateness of moments of synchronicity; the whispered voice, the hidden presence, when we think we're alone.”
― Charles de Lint

tags: connectedness

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#2

“Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors.”
― Charles de Lint, Moonheart

tags: qotd, wonders

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#3

“I want to be magic. I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile. I want to be a friend of elves and live in a tree. Or under a hill. I want to marry a moonbeam and hear the stars sing. I don't want to pretend at magic anymore. I want to be magic.”
― Charles de Lint

tags: magic

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#4

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator

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#5

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

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#6

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

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#7

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard

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#8

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#9

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy

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#10

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

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#11

“There is always something left to love.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

tags: love

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#12

“What does he say?' he asked.
'He’s very sad,’ Úrsula answered, ‘because he thinks that you’re going to die.'
'Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

tags: death, dying

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#13

“A person does not belong to a place until there is someone dead under the ground.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

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#14

“Tell the sun and stars hello for me.”
― Rick Riordan, The House of Hades

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#15

“But I have no faith in love. Love cannot save me.

I choose vengeance.”
― Xiran Jay Zhao, Iron Widow

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#16

“Let me lose my mind. It’s the only way to love. —ZHU”
― Justinian Huang, The Emperor and the Endless Palace

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#17

“This was the last evening that she should breathe the same air with him or gaze on the starry sky and the deep sea. An eternal night, without a thought or a dream, awaited her.”
― Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid

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#18

“Fishes, both large and small, glide between the branches, as birds fly among the trees.”
― Ashly Lovett, The Little Mermaid

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#19

“So I shall die," said the little mermaid, "and as the foam of the sea I shall be driven about never again to hear the music of the waves, or to see the pretty flowers nor the red sun. Is there anything I can do to win an immortal soul?”
― Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid

tags: poetry, sea, sea-foam, the-little-mermaid

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