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    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor
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    Jane Austen
    “The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!”
    ― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
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    Jane Austen
    “Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.”
    ― Jane Austen
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    Marilyn Monroe
    “A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    Marilyn Monroe
    “If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    Marilyn Monroe
    “It's far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone — so far.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: alone, attributed-no-source
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    “Have you ever noticed how ‘What the hell’ is always the right decision to make?”
    ― Terry Johnson, Insignificance
    tags: humor, misattributed-to-marilyn-monroe, philosophy
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    Marilyn Monroe
    “No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: beauty, girls
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    Timothy Leary
    “Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.”
    ― Timothy Leary
    tags: ambition, equality
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    Marilyn Monroe
    “Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
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    Marilyn Monroe
    “You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
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    Marilyn Monroe
    “It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: feelings, not-alone
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    Marilyn Monroe
    “I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: appearance, jokes, marilyn-monroe
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    Marilyn Monroe
    “I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it. ”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
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    Marilyn Monroe
    “I've been on a calendar, but never on time.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
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    Marilyn Monroe
    “What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: humor
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  • #17
    Marilyn Monroe
    “I have too many fantasies to be a housewife.... I guess I am a fantasy.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: actress, fantasy, wife
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    Gordon B. Hinckley
    “True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the well-being of one's companion.”
    ― Gordon B. Hinckley, Stand a Little Taller: Counsel and Inspiration for Each Day of the Year
    tags: inspirational, love
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “Reader, I married him.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: eyre, jane
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë
    tags: companionship, loneliness, marriage, single, spinsterhood
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I have little left in myself -- I must have you. The world may laugh -- may call me absurd, selfish -- but it does not signify. My very soul demands you: it will be satisfied, or it will take deadly vengeance on its frame.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: love, obsession
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt! May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, heart-wrung tears as poured from mine. May you never appeal to Heaven in prayers so hopeless and so agised as in that hour left my lips: for never may you, like me, dread to be the instrument of evil to what you wholly love.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë , Jane Eyre
    tags: heartbreak, integrity, love
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “Flirting is a woman’s trade, one must keep in practice.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: becoming-jane, flirting, sex
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “Conventionality is not morality.”
    ― Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
    tags: morality
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it; and, if discovered and responded to, must lead, ignis-fatuus-like, into miry wilds whence there is no extrication.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: feelings, flattery, love, secret-love, sense, unavowed-love, vulnerability, women
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “Her coming was my hope each day,
    Her parting was my pain;
    The chance that did her steps delay
    Was ice in every vein.”
    ― Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
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  • #29
    There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling
    “There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: friendship, happiness, inspirational
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself,
    than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all
    connected with you.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: altruism, love, patience
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