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    Leo Tolstoy
    “If you want to be happy, be.”
    ― Leo Tolstory
    tags: inspirational
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    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    “My wish for you... is that your skeptic-eclectic brain be flooded with the light of truth.”
    ― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, The First Circle
    tags: concentration-camp, prisoner, russian, zek
    146 likes

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    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    “The sole substitute for an experience we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.”
    ― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
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    “Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.”
    ― Walter H. Cottingham
    tags: ambition, intelligence, misattributed-salvador-dali, paraphrased
    521 likes

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    Charles Dickens
    “Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.”
    ― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
    tags: crying, heartfelt, shame, sorrow, tears
    3015 likes

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    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    “The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.”
    ― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
    tags: hunger
    1380 likes

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    Seán O'Casey
    “Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.”
    ― Sean O'Casey
    tags: joy, laughter
    2626 likes

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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
    3572 likes

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    Lemony Snicket
    “It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.”
    ― Lemony Snicket
    1964 likes

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    Sarah Addison Allen
    “Sometimes its necessary to embrace the magic, to find out what's real in life, and in one's own heart.”
    ― Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost
    1282 likes

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    Émile Zola
    “I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.”
    ― Emile Zola
    1296 likes

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    Randy Pausch
    “Go out and do for others what somebody did for you.”
    ― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
    141 likes

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    Charlotte Brontë
    “Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.”
    ― Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
    tags: grudges
    4188 likes

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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism, self-awareness, self-determination, women
    14059 likes

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    Henry James
    “She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.”
    ― Henry James
    2645 likes

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    Micah R. Sisk
    “The first measure of any civilization is how it deals with its trash.”
    ― Micah R. Sisk
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    Robert Jordan
    “The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.”
    ― Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World
    tags: fantasy
    180 likes

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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: food, happiness
    10552 likes

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    “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
    ― S.G. Tallentyre, The Friends of Voltaire
    tags: disagreement, evelyn-beatrice-hall, freedom-of-speech, freedom-of-thought, misattributed-to-voltaire
    1763 likes

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  • #20
    “Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
    ― George R. R. Martin
    tags: books, reading
    9870 likes

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    Albert Camus
    “Live to the point of tears.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: life, living
    5056 likes

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    Agatha Christie
    “Very few of us are what we seem.”
    ― Agatha Christie, The Man in the Mist
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    Jamaica Kincaid
    “Friendship is a simple thing, and yet complicated; friendship is on the surface, something natural, something taken for granted, and yet underneath one could find worlds.”
    ― Jamaica Kincaid
    tags: jamaica-kincaid, lucy
    1625 likes

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    Neil Gaiman
    “I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
    8075 likes

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    Stephen King
    “Quiet people have the loudest minds.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: authors, books, dark, horror, inspirational, inspiring-quotes, minds, quotes, reading, steven-king, writers
    486 likes

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    Mo Yan
    “Finally, she mused that human existence is as brief as the life of autumn grass, so what was there to fear from taking chances with your life?”
    ― Mo Yan, Red Sorghum
    tags: existence
    1388 likes

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    Lorraine Hansberry
    “Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.”
    ― Lorraine Hansberry
    2205 likes

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    Ben Okri
    “The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.”
    ― Ben Okri
    2415 likes

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    John Updike
    “It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.”
    ― John Updike, My Father's Tears and Other Stories
    3010 likes

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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
    6069 likes



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