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    Guy de Maupassant
    “Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.”
    ― Guy de Maupassant
    tags: books
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    Virginia Woolf
    “I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, The Letters of Virginia Woolf: Volume Three, 1923-1928
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    Langston Hughes
    “Hold fast to dreams,
    For if dreams die
    Life is a broken-winged bird,
    That cannot fly.”
    ― Langston Hughes
    tags: dreams, hope, inspiration, knowledge, wisdom
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
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    Sylvia Beach
    “I am a citizen of the world.”
    ― Sylvia Beach
    tags: citizenship, identity, world
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    Alexandre Dumas
    “All human wisdom is contained in these two words - Wait and Hope”
    ― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
    tags: book-the-count-of-monte-cristo
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    Tennessee Williams
    “If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.”
    ― Tennessee Williams, Conversations With Tennessee Williams
    tags: angels, demons
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: capital-punishment, death-penalty, gandalf, j-r-r-tolkien, lord-of-the-rings
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end… because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing… this shadow. Even darkness must pass.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
    tags: lord-of-the-rings, sam-gamgee
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    Steven Moffat
    “Reinette: One may tolerate a world of demons for the sake of an angel.”
    ― Steven Moffat
    tags: angel, demons, doctor, doctor-who, girl-in-the-fireplace, madame-du-pompadour, reinette, tolerance, who
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    Brom
    “Men who fear demons see demons everywhere.”
    ― Brom, The Child Thief
    tags: demons, fear, see
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Never trust a demon. He has a hundred motives for anything he does ... Ninety-nine of them, at least, are malevolent.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes
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    Markus Zusak
    “Even death has a heart.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
    tags: death, life
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    “If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.”
    ― Joan Powers, Pooh's Little Instruction Book
    tags: friendship, misattributed-a-a-milne
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    A.A. Milne
    “Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.
    "Pooh!" he whispered.
    "Yes, Piglet?"
    "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you.”
    ― A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner
    tags: friendship, piglet, pooh, reassurance
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    “How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.”
    ― Evans G. Valens, The Other Side of the Mountain: The Story of Jill Kinmont
    tags: misattributed-to-a-a-milne
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    A.A. Milne
    “You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
    ― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
    tags: friendship, inspirational, pooh, winnie
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    A.A. Milne
    “Some people care too much. I think it's called love.”
    ― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
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    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: charles-bayard-mitchell
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    M.D. Waters
    “Seduce my mind and you can have my body, find my soul and I’m yours forever.”
    ― M.D. Waters, Archetype
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Deep in earth my love is lying
    And I must weep alone.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: bereavement, crying, sorrow
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Even in the grave, all is not lost.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: death, hopelessness
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Lord help my poor soul.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: death, forgiveness, lord, mercy, soul
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “...the agony of my soul found vent in one loud, long and final scream of despair.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls...”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: darkness
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “In death - no! even in the grave all is not lost. Else there is no immortality for man. Arousing from the most profound slumbers, we break the gossamer web of some dream. Yet in a second afterward, (so frail may that web have been) we remember not that we have dreamed.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum
    tags: dream, immortality, life-after-death, the-pit-and-the-pendulum
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Nemo impune me lacessit!!”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: kindlehighlight
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “In the deepest slumber-no! In delirium-no! In a swoon-no! In death-no! even in the grave all is not lost.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum
    tags: insperational
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “And then there stole into my fancy, like a rich musical note, the thought of what sweet rest there must be in the grave.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum
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