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    J.K. Rowling
    “Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears.
    "After all this time?"
    "Always," said Snape.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    tags: dumbledore, life, love, snape
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    George Orwell
    “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: inspirational
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    James Patterson
    “Because what’s worse than knowing you want something, besides knowing you can never have it?”
    ― James Patterson, The Angel Experiment
    tags: hopelessness, unrequited-love, yearning
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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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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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    Haruki Murakami
    “In dreams begins responsiblities.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
    tags: dreams, responsiblities
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    E.L. Konigsburg
    “How can you know what is missing if you’ve never met it? You must know of something’s existence before you can notice its absence. ”
    ― E.L. Konigsburg, The View from Saturday
    tags: absence
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    George Orwell
    “The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: books, reading
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
    tags: essential, happiness, love
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  • #11
    Marilyn Monroe
    “If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, girls, love
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    John Green
    “The world is not a wish-granting factory.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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    Gillian Flynn
    “It’s a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless Automat of characters.”
    ― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
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    Alexander Pushkin
    “People are so like their first mother Eve: what they are given doesn't take their fancy. The serpent is forever enticing them to come to him, to the tree of mystery. They must have the forbidden fruit, or paradise will not be paradise for them.”
    ― Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin
    tags: russian-literature
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    Alexander Pushkin
    “Чем меньше женщину мы любим,
    Тем легче нравимся мы ей,
    И тем ее вернее губим
    Средь обольстительных сетей.”
    ― Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin
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    Alexander Pushkin
    “I loved you: and, it may be, from my soul
    The former love has never gone away,
    But let it not recall to you my dole;
    I wish not sadden you in any way.

    I loved you silently, without hope, fully,
    In diffidence, in jealousy, in pain;
    I loved you so tenderly and truly,
    As let you else be loved by any man. ”
    ― Alexander Pushkin
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    Oscar Wilde
    “How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can’t make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless."

    "Well, I can’t eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them."

    "I say it’s perfectly heartless your eating muffins at all, under the circumstances.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
    tags: algernon, algy, calm, calmness, heartless, heartlessness, muffins, oscar-wilde
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    Oscar Wilde
    “To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Ransack the language as he might, words failed him. He wanted another landscape, and another tongue.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Orlando
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    Yukio Mishima
    “True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.”
    ― Yukio Mishima
    tags: beauty, cruelty, love
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    Jane Austen
    “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: husband, marriage, opening-lines, wife
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    Margaret Mitchell
    “Why be an ostrich?”
    ― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
    tags: gone-with-the-wind, rhett-butler, rhett-butler-to-scarlett
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    Frank Herbert
    “Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: muad-dib, order, princess-irulan, reality, understanding
    2130 likes



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