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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
    tags: belonging, company, desires, literature, longings
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    Elizabeth Scott
    “I love books. I like that the moment you open one and sink into it you can escape from the world, into a story that's way more interesting that yours will ever be.”
    ― Elizabeth Scott, Bloom
    tags: books
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    Ned Vizzini
    “Dreams are only dreams until you wake up and make them real.”
    ― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story
    tags: inspiration
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: glitter, journey, shine, tolkien, travel, wander, wanderlust
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  • #5
    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: inspirational, love
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    Stephen Chbosky
    “And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: infinity
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: books, life, limits
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    Janne Teller
    “Meaning is not something you can sell”
    ― Janne Teller, Nothing
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    Sylvia Plath
    “And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: writing
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    Jenny Holzer
    “You are a victim of the rules you live by.”
    ― Jenny Holzer
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  • #11
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: paraphrased, strength
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  • #12
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
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    Janne Teller
    “From the moment we are born, we begin to die.”
    ― Janne Teller, Nothing
    tags: depressing, janne-teller, nothing, sadness
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    Caitlyn Siehl
    “Do not fall in love with people like me.
    I will take you to museums, and parks, and monuments, and kiss you in every beautiful place, so that you can never go back to them without tasting me like blood in your mouth.
    I will destroy you in the most beautiful way possible. And when I leave you will finally understand, why storms are named after people.”
    ― Caitlyn Siehl, Literary Sexts: A Collection of Short & Sexy Love Poems
    tags: beautiful, blood, kiss, life, love, mouth, museums, parks
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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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    Oscar Wilde
    “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: books, morality, reading
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality
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    Neil Gaiman
    “I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
    tags: dying, facts, fame, knowing, love, poverty, reality, school, teach, wealth
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    Maya Angelou
    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
    ― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing
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    Virginia Woolf
    “I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: women
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  • #22
    William Shakespeare
    “By the pricking of my thumbs,
    Something wicked this way comes.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Macbeth
    tags: foreshadowing, macbeth
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  • #23
    William Shakespeare
    “What, you egg?”
    ― William Shakespeare, Macbeth
    tags: humour, macbeth
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  • #24
    Sylvia Plath
    “Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: importance, kiss, kissing
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    Hervé Le Tellier
    “There are some works so luminous...so powerful that they give us strength, and force us to new undertakings. A book can play this role.”
    ― Hervé Le Tellier
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    Albert Einstein
    “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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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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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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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
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    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    ― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You
    tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail
    60255 likes

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  • #32
    Douglas Adams
    “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
    tags: life, navigation
    39241 likes



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