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    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
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    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
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    Maya Angelou
    “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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    Elbert Hubbard
    “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
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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
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
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  • #8
    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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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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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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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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    André Gide
    “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
    ― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves
    tags: life, love
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
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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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    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life
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    John Green
    “As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: love
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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
    tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton
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    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy
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    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
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    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    ― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
    tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
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    Sappho
    “Sweet mother, I cannot weave –
    slender Aphrodite has overcome me
    with longing for a girl.”
    ― Sappho, Sappho: A New Translation of the Complete Works
    tags: gay, relatable
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    Stanley Kubrick
    “I’ve never been certain whether the moral of the Icarus story should only be, as is generally accepted, ‘don’t try to fly too high,’ or whether it might also be thought of as ‘forget the wax and feathers, and do a better job on the wings.”
    ― Stanley Kubrick
    tags: icarus
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    Jeremy Robert Johnson
    “Icarus flew too close to the sun, but at least he flew.”
    ― Jeremy Robert Johnson, Skullcrack City
    tags: icarus
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    “Icarus should have waited for nightfall,
    the moon would have never let him go.”
    ― Nina Mouawad
    tags: greek-mythology, icarus, love, love-quotes, poetry, unrequited-love
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    “Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings.”
    ― E.O. Wilson
    tags: ambition, fall, falling, flying, greek, greek-mythology, icarus, sun, wings
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    Darcie Little Badger
    “It's hard to know that you're flying too high until the feathers start dropping.”
    ― Darcie Little Badger, Elatsoe
    tags: caution, icarus, pride, risks
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    E.L. James
    “I feel the familiar pull—I am drawn, Icarus to his sun. I have been burned already, and yet here I am again.

    ~Anastasia”
    ― E.L. James, Fifty Shades Darker
    tags: icarus, recklessness, sun
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  • #29
    “It’s not enough nearly to survive. One needs to flourish. One must not look to fly low. One must emulate Icarus and try to fly as high as possible. Damn the sun. Let’s make heat-resistant wax for our wings!”
    ― Jack Tanner, The Source of Dreams: When Human Imagination Died
    tags: dreams, fly, icarus, sun, wings
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    “Here is what they don’t tell you:

    Icarus laughed as he fell.
    Threw his head back and
    yelled into the winds,
    arms spread wide,
    teeth bared to the world.

    (There is a bitter triumph
    in crashing when you should be
    soaring.)

    The wax scorched his skin,
    ran blazing trails down his back,
    his thighs, his ankles, his feet.
    Feathers floated like prayers
    past his fingers,
    close enough to snatch back.
    Death breathed burning kisses
    against his shoulders,
    where the wings joined the harness.
    The sun painted everything
    in shades of gold.

    (There is a certain beauty
    in setting the world on fire
    and watching from the centre
    of the flames.)”
    ― Fiona
    tags: failure, icarus, laugh, triumph
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