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    Banksy
    “I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.”
    ― Banksy
    tags: death-and-dying, oblivion
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    Stephen Fry
    “Gaia visited her daughter Mnemosyne, who was busy being unpronounceable.”
    ― Stephen Fry, Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold
    tags: funny, greek, humor, humour, language, myth, mythology, myths, pronounciation
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    Libba Bray
    “But what was the point of living so quietly you made no noise at all?”
    ― Libba Bray, The Diviners
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    Yuval Noah Harari
    “Is there anything more dangerous than dissatisfied and irresponsible gods who don’t know what they want?”
    ― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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    Philip Pullman
    “After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
    ― Philip Pullman
    tags: books, needs, stories, storytelling, writing
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    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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    Victoria Schwab
    “Plenty of humans were monstrous, and plenty of monsters knew how to play at being human.”
    ― Victoria Schwab, Vicious
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    Neil deGrasse Tyson
    “We are stardust brought to life, then empowered by the universe to figure itself out—and we have only just begun.”
    ― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
    tags: astronomy, astrophysics, science
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    Stephen Brusatte
    “Dinosaurs had been around for over 150 million years when their time of reckoning came. They had endured hardships, evolved superpowers like fast metabolisms and enormous size, and vanquished their rivals so that they ruled an entire planet…
    Then, literally, in a split second, it ended.”
    ― Stephen Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
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    Gayle Forman
    “To be the holder of other people's loss is to be the keeper of their love. To share your loss with people is another way of giving your love.”
    ― Gayle Forman, I Have Lost My Way
    tags: loss, love, share, support
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    Amal El-Mohtar
    “Books are letters in bottles, cast into the waves of time, from one person trying to save the world to another.”
    ― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War
    tags: books
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    Neil deGrasse Tyson
    “The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you. —NDT”
    ― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
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  • #13
    “Even
    After
    All this time
    The Sun never says to the Earth,

    "You owe me."

    Look
    What happens
    With a love like that,
    It lights the whole sky.”
    ― Hafiz
    tags: life, love, sky, sun
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  • #14
    I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn
    “I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-marilyn-monroe
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    Stephen Fry
    “What Pandora did not know was that, when she shut the lid of the jar so hastily, she for ever imprisoned inside one last daughter of Nyx. One last little creature was left behind to beat its wings hopelessly in the jar for ever. Its name was ELPIS, Hope.”
    ― Stephen Fry, Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold
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    Philip Pullman
    “All the history of human life has been a struggle between wisdom and stupidity.”
    ― Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass
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    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor
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    Michelle Obama
    “Now I think it’s one of the most useless questions an adult can ask a child—What do you want to be when you grow up? As if growing up is finite. As if at some point you become something and that’s the end.”
    ― Michelle Obama, Becoming
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  • #19
    “Tell me the story..
    About how the sun loved the moon so much..
    That she died every night..
    Just to let him breathe...”
    ― Hanako Ishii
    tags: love, moon, sun
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    Heidi R. Kling
    “We are all searching for someone whose demons play well with ours.”
    ― Heidi R. Kling
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    Jane Austen
    “There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: friendship, love
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    Jane Austen
    “I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: books, library, reading
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  • #23
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
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  • #24
    “Studies have shown that most women require at least twenty minutes of sexual activity to climax, and there are myriad factors that can kibosh a lady's snap, crackle, and pop. Age, stress, atmosphere, smells, self-esteem. Frankly, it's a known flight risk.”
    ― Kate Lister, A Curious History of Sex
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: fairy-tales, hope, paraphrased, possiblity
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    Pablo Neruda
    “Tonight I can write the saddest lines
    I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.”
    ― Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
    tags: love, sadness
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    Jeaniene Frost
    “I'm saying that I'm a moody, insecure, narrow-minded, jealous, borderline homicidal bitch, and I want you to promise me that you're okay with that, because it's who I am, and you're what I need.”
    ― Jeaniene Frost, Halfway to the Grave
    tags: humor, love
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    Philip Pullman
    “We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.”
    ― Philip Pullman
    tags: books, inspirational
    2486 likes

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  • #29
    Haruki Murakami
    “Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
    tags: nagasawa
    4021 likes

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  • #30
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
    tags: f-scott-fitzgerald
    5877 likes



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