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    Virginia Woolf
    “Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: freedom, women, writing
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts
    tags: books, metaphor, soul
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?”
    ― Virginia Woolf
    tags: men, rescuing, women
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    Virginia Woolf
    “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: food, love
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    Virginia Woolf
    “If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
    tags: honesty, lies, stories, truth
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
    tags: writing
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    Virginia Woolf
    “I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
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    Virginia Woolf
    “No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own / Three Guineas
    tags: calming, reassuring, true
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
    tags: growing-up, illusions, life
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    Virginia Woolf
    “There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, 'Consume me'.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, The Waves
    tags: clouds, star
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    Virginia Woolf
    “How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, The Waves
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
    tags: books, library
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    Amitav Ghosh
    “How do you lose a word? Does it vanish into your memory, like an old toy in a cupboard, and lie hidden in the cobwebs and dust, waiting to be cleaned out or rediscovered?”
    ― Amitav Ghosh, The Hungry Tide
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    Amitav Ghosh
    “To use the past to justify the present is bad enough—but it’s just as bad to use the present to justify the past.”
    ― Amitav Ghosh, The Glass Palace
    tags: justification, past, present
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    Amitav Ghosh
    “Recognition is famously a passage from ignorance to knowledge.”
    ― Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
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    Amitav Ghosh
    “It would be enough; as an alibi for a life, it would do; she would not need to apologize for how she had spent her time on this earth.”
    ― Amitav Ghosh, The Hungry Tide
    tags: alibi-for-life, life, life-lessons, life-philosophy, time-on-earth
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    Amitav Ghosh
    “The absence of food doesn't make a man forsake hunger-it only makes him hungrier .”
    ― Amitav Ghosh, River of Smoke
    tags: wisdom
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    Pablo Picasso
    “Everything you can imagine is real.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
    tags: art, imagination, inspirational, life
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    Pablo Picasso
    “Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
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    George Orwell
    “The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
    ― George Orwell
    tags: history, propaganda, rewriting-history
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    Mark Twain
    “History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: history
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    Christopher Paolini
    “People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn't.”
    ― Christopher Paolini, Eragon
    tags: history, humor, memory, recall
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    Michael Crichton
    “If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. ”
    ― Michael Crichton
    tags: history
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    Fernando Pessoa
    “Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
    ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
    tags: literature, reading, solitude
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    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
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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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    Larry Godwin
    “No event is depressing. I may feel depressed; if so, I take responsibility.”
    ― Larry Godwin, Transcending Depression: Quest Without a Compass
    tags: anxiety, deeper-understanding, depression, medications, mood-disorders, reference, therapy
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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    Amitav Ghosh
    “Modern Bombay, in a sense, has its genesis in the poppy fields of Bihar.”
    ― Amitav Ghosh, Smoke and Ashes: A Writer's Journey through Opium's Hidden Histories
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    Rahul Sankrityayan
    “रूढ़ियों को लोग इसलिए मानते हैं, क्योंकि उनके सामने रूढ़ियों को तोड़ने वालों के उदाहरण पर्याप्त मात्रा में नहीं हैं।”
    ― Rahul Sankrityayan
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