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#1

“One eye sees, the other feels.”
― Paul Klee

tags: art

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#2

“Be glad. Be good. Be brave.”
― Eleanor Hodgman Porter

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#3

“Tell me a story of deep delight.”
― Robert Penn Warren

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#4

“I woke up thinking a very pleasant thought. There is lots left in the world to read.”
― Nicholson Baker, The Anthologist

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#6

“What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion.”
― Chris Abani

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#7

“Face front, true believers!”
― Stan Lee

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#8

“Funny, when you finally faced reality, it was amazing how clearly you could see things.”
― Mary Higgins Clark, Loves Music, Loves to Dance

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#9

“The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.”
― Vaclav Havel

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#10

“No one expected me. Everything awaited me.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids

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#12

“Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.”
― Charles Lamb

tags: new-years

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#13

“Crooked cards and straight whiskey,
Slow horses and fast women.”
― Kenneth Rexroth

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#14

“I get a warm feeling among my books.”
― Anthony Powell

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#15

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

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#16

“We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.”
― Stephen Hawking

tags: inspirational, science

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#17

“Any planet is 'Earth' to those that live on it.”
― Isaac Asimov, Pebble in the Sky

tags: normalcy

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#18

“The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”
― Abigail Van Buren

tags: character, life, wisdom

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#19

“When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.”
― Albert Camus, A Happy Death

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#20

“These are the times that try men's souls.”
― Thomas Paine, The American Crisis

tags: adversity, american-revolution, trials

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#21

“It doesn't matter what people call you unless they call you pigeon pie and eat you up.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

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#22

“Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving. ”
― Alan Paton

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#23

“One had to build shelters. One had to make pockets and live inside them.”
― Lorrie Moore, Like Life

tags: hide, protect, shelter

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#24

“Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.”
― Haruki Marukami

tags: expectation

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#25

“Quotable quotes are coins rubbed smooth by circulation.”
― Louis Menand

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#26

“My course is set for an uncharted sea.”
― Dante Alighieri

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#27

“I went to collect the few personal belongings which...I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.”
― Colette

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#28

“It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.”
― W.C. Fields

tags: labels, names

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#29

“The sun doesn't just hang on one family's tree”
― Anchee Min, Empress Orchid

tags: luck

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#30

“Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.”
― Moliere

tags: inspirational, patience

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#31

“Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.”
― Susan Sontag

tags: attention, eagerness

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#32

“It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.”
― Anne Brontë

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