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    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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    Oscar Wilde
    “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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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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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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    Madeline Miller
    “He is half of my soul, as the poets say.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
    tags: inspirational, love
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    Madeline Miller
    “I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
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    Madeline Miller
    “And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
    tags: quotes
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    Madeline Miller
    “In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
    tags: love
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    Madeline Miller
    “When he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
    tags: death, death-of-a-loved-one, love
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  • #11
    Madeline Miller
    “We were like gods at the dawning of the world, & our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
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    Madeline Miller
    “But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.”
    ― Madeline Miller, Circe
    tags: circe, constellations, daedalus, greek-mythology, love, stars
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    Madeline Miller
    “He is a weapon, a killer. Do not forget it. You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
    tags: mythology, war
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    Madeline Miller
    “Humbling women seems to me a chief pastime of poets. As if there can be no story unless we crawl and weep.”
    ― Madeline Miller, Circe
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    Madeline Miller
    “I thought: I cannot bear this world a moment longer. Then, child, make another.”
    ― Madeline Miller, Circe
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    Madeline Miller
    “It is a common saying that women are delicate creatures, flowers, eggs, anything that may be crushed in a moment's carelessness. If I had ever believed it, I no longer did.”
    ― Madeline Miller, Circe
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    Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    “I bet you could sometimes find all the mysteries of the universe in someone's hand.”
    ― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
    tags: answers, love, true, universe
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    Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    “I got to thinking that poems were like people. Some people you got right off the bat. Some people you just didn't get--and never would get.”
    ― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
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    Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    “Another secret of the universe: Sometimes pain was like a storm that came out of nowhere. The clearest summer could end in a downpour. Could end in lightning and thunder.”
    ― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
    tags: pain, storm, summer
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    Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    “The summer sun was not meant for boys like me. Boys like me belonged to the rain.”
    ― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
    tags: boys, rain, summer
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    Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    “To be careful with people and with words was a rare and beautiful thing.”
    ― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
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  • #22
    Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    “Maybe we just lived between hurting and healing.”
    ― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
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  • #23
    Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    “But love was always something heavy for me. Something I had to carry.”
    ― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
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    Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    “And it seemed to me that Dante's face was a map of the world. A world without any darkness.

    Wow, a world without darkness. How beautiful was that?”
    ― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
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    Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    “I hated being volunteered. The problem with my life was that it was someone else's idea.”
    ― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
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    Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    “I had a feeling there was something wrong with me. I guess I was a mystery even to myself.”
    ― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
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  • #27
    Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    “Why do we smile? Why do we laugh? Why do we feel alone? Why are we sad and confused? Why do we read poetry? Why do we cry when we see a painting? Why is there a riot in the heart when we love? Why do we feel shame? What is that thing in the pit of your stomach called desire?”
    ― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
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    Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    “Sometimes, you do things and you do them not because you're thinking but because you're feeling. Because you're feeling too much. And you can't always control the things you do when you're feeling too much.”
    ― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
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  • #29
    Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    “Your smile is back.' That's what Dante said.

    'Smiles are like that. They come and go.”
    ― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
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    Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    “Scars. A sign that you had been hurt. A sign that you had healed.”
    ― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
    tags: scars
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