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#1

“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#2

“Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#3

“A man's library is a sort of harem.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#4

“And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.”
― Raymond Carver

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#5

“Make me immortal with a kiss.”
― Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus and Other Plays

tags: kiss

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#6

“Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.”
― Samuel Pepys, The Diary of Samuel Pepys

tags: dinner

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#7

“I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life.”
― Eugene O'Neill

tags: optimism

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#8

“Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.”
― Chuck Klosterman, Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story

tags: art, love, profound

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#9

“I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”
― Orhan Pamuk, The New Life

tags: books, orhan-pamuk, reading, the-new-life

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#10

“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.”
― Emily Dickinson

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#11

“A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.”
― Maurice Sendak

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#12

“Drink today, and drown all sorrow;
You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow;
Best, while you have it, use your breath;
There is no drinking after death.”
― Ben Jonson

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#13

“Love the world and yourself in it, move through it as though it offers no resistance, as though the world is your natural element.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

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#14

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: hmmm

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#15

“The longer I live, the more I observe that carrying around anger is the most debilitating to the person who bears it.”
― Katharine Graham

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#16

“Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.”
― Charles Eames

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#17

“Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”
― Winston Churchill

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#18

“It was always the view of my parents...that hot weather encouraged loose morals among young people.”
― Ian McEwan

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#19

“One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

tags: books

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#20

“Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.”
― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

tags: beauty, canyons, carvings, nature, perseverance, suffering, windstorms

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#21

“Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.”
― Herman Hesse

tags: steppenwolf

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#22

“I am large, I contain multitudes”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

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#23

“I think I’m greedy, but I’m not greedy for money - I think that can be a burden - I’m greedy for an exciting life.”
― David Hockney

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#24

“The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.”
― Alice Munro, Runaway: Stories

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#25

“may you kiss
the wind then turn from it
certain that it will
love your back”
― Lucille Clifton

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#26

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

tags: abilities

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#27

“It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

tags: dumbledore

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#28

“I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

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#29

“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

tags: chemistry, relationships

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#30

“and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you”
― E.E. Cummings

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