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    William Wordsworth
    “The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.”
    ― William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads
    tags: finale-of-middlemarch, tintern-abbey
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    J.M. Barrie
    “There could not have been a lovelier sight; but there was none to see it except a little boy who was staring in at the window. He had ecstasies innumerable that other children can never know; but he was looking through the window at the one joy from which he must be for ever barred.”
    ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
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    J.M. Barrie
    “On these magic shores children at play are for ever beaching their coracles. We too have been there; we can still hear the sound of the surf, though we shall land no more.”
    ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
    tags: childhood, magic
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    J.M. Barrie
    “Why can't you fly now, mother?"
    "Because I am grown up, dearest. When people grow up they forget the way."
    "Why do they forget the way?"
    "Because they are no longer gay and innocent and heartless. It is only the gay and innocent and heartless who can fly.”
    ― J.M. Barrie
    tags: peter-pan
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    Kenneth Grahame
    “Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.”
    ― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
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    David Levithan
    “Because it is senior year I have begun to see things as potential absences. The things I love will become the things I'll miss.”
    ― David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility
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    David Levithan
    “What separates us from the animals, what separates us from the chaos, is our ability to mourn people we’ve never met.”
    ― David Levithan, Love Is the Higher Law
    tags: 9-11, death, terrorism
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    David Levithan
    “this might be the happy ending without the ending”
    ― David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. You need distance, interval. The way to see how beautiful the earth is, is to see it as the moon. The way to see how beautiful life is, is from the vantage point of death.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
    tags: death-life-p169
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    William Faulkner
    “Surely heaven must have something of the color and shape of whatever village or hill or cottage of which the believer says, This is my own.”
    ― William Faulkner, Light in August
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    Alberto Manguel
    “I like to imagine that, on the day after my last, my library and I will crumble together, so that even when I am no more I'll still be with my books.”
    ― Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night
    tags: books, death, library
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    I have no feelings of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps
    “I have no feelings of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read; I know that my books have unlimited patience. They will wait for me till the end of my days.”
    ― Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night
    tags: books, reading, tsundoku
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    Stuart Dybek
    “The public library is where place and possibility meet.”
    ― Stuart Dybek
    tags: books, libraries, library, places, possibilities, reading
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    Anna Burns
    “The day Somebody McSomebody put a gun to my breast and called me a cat and threatened to shoot me was the same day the milkman died.”
    ― Anna Burns, Milkman
    tags: first-lines, opening-lines
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Everything teaches transition, transference, metamorphosis: therein is human power, in transference, not in creation; & therein is human destiny, not in longevity but in removal. We dive & reappear in new places.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1824
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    George Eliot
    “It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses.”
    ― George Eliot
    tags: determination, initiative, positivity
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    C. JoyBell C.
    “There is a magnificent, beautiful, wonderful painting in front of you! It is intricate, detailed, a painstaking labor of devotion and love! The colors are like no other, they swim and leap, they trickle and embellish! And yet you choose to fixate your eyes on the small fly which has landed on it! Why do you do such a thing?”
    ― C. JoyBell C.
    tags: critical-thinking, envy, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, negative-attitude, negativity, people, positive-attitude, positivity, self-acceptance, self-knowledge, self-love, the-nature-of-envy, wisdom-quotes
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    Philippa Pearce
    “Nothing stands still, except in our memory.”
    ― Philippa Pearce, Tom's Midnight Garden
    tags: memory, time
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    Norton Juster
    “Time is a gift, given to you, given to give you the time you need, the time you need to have the time of your life. ”
    ― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
    tags: time
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    Norton Juster
    “The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that.”
    ― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
    tags: journey, philosophy, quest
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