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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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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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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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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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    Daniel Keyes
    “Punctuation, is? fun!”
    ― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
    tags: humor, punctuation
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    Daniel Keyes
    “P.S. please if you get a chanse put some flowrs on Algernons grave in the bak yard.”
    ― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
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    Daniel Keyes
    “And now - Plato's words mock me in the shadows on the ledge behind the flames: '...the men of the cave would say of him that up he went and down he came without his eyes.”
    ― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
    tags: flowers-for-algernon, plato
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    Daniel Keyes
    “language is sometimes a barrier instead of a pathway.”
    ― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
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    Albert Camus
    “Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: human-nature, man, mankind, philosophy
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    Albert Camus
    “Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
    ― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein
    tags: change, human
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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
    ― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!”
    ― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
    tags: awesomeness, um
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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel...”
    ― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.”
    ― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “I am alone and miserable. Only someone as ugly as I am could love me.”
    ― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
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    Daniel Keyes
    “I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.”
    ― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
    tags: happiness, loneliness, melancholy, philosophy, psychology
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    Daniel Keyes
    “Now I understand that one of the important reasons for going to college and getting an education is to learn that the things you've believed in all your life aren't true, and that nothing is what it appears to be.”
    ― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
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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
    “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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    Madeline Miller
    “Chiron had said once that nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. "No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
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    Oscar Wilde
    “A good friend will always stab you in the front.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: friends-betrayal
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: humor-heaven
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    H.G. Wells
    “Advertising is legitimised lying.”
    ― H.G. Wells
    tags: business, marketing, sales
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    H.G. Wells
    “Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.”
    ― H.G. Wells, The Time Machine
    tags: human-nature, intelligence, science
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    H.G. Wells
    “Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.”
    ― H.G.Wells
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    H.G. Wells
    “Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life.”
    ― H.G. Wells, The Time Machine
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    H.G. Wells
    “Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough---as most wrong theories are!”
    ― H.G. Wells, The Time Machine
    tags: theory
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    Juli Zeh
    “Das Leben ist ein Angebot, das man auch ablehnen kann.”
    ― Juli Zeh, Corpus Delicti: Ein Prozess
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