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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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    Harper Lee
    “I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: brotherhood-of-man, people, scout
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    W.G. Sebald
    “It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.”
    ― W.G. Sebald, Vertigo
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    Seneca
    “Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms -- you’ll be able to use them better when you’re older.”
    ― Seneca
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    Seneca
    “Maximum remedium est irae mora.”
    ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca
    tags: anger, stoicism
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: age, fairytales, growing-up
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
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    John Green
    “I'm starting to realize that people lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, & so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.”
    ― John Green, Paper Towns
    tags: understanding-oneself-and-others
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    John Green
    “What a slut time is. She screws everybody.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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    William Shakespeare
    “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
    tags: self-determination, self-responsibility, timidity
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    John Green
    “The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
    ― John Green, Looking for Alaska
    tags: compassion, life, suffering
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    John Green
    “She said, "It's not life or death, the labyrinth."
    "Um, okay. So what is it?"
    "Suffering," she said. "Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That's the problem. Bolivar was talking about the pain, not about the living or dying. How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering?... Nothing's wrong. But there's always suffering, Pudge. Homework or malaria or having a boyfriend who lives far away when there's a good-looking boy lying next to you. Suffering is universal. It's the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.”
    ― John Green, Looking for Alaska
    tags: alaska, labyrinth, philosophy, pudge, suffering
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    Tom Stoppard
    “We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.”
    ― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
    tags: stoppard
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
    tags: forgiveness
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
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    Sinclair Lewis
    “The author says one character's definition of a classic is any book he'd heard of before he was thirty.”
    ― Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here
    tags: classic-literature
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    Alexei Panshin
    “Classics aren't books that are read for pleasure. Classics are books that are imposed on unwilling students, books that are subjected to analyses of "levels of significance" and other blatt, books that are dead.”
    ― Alexei Panshin, Rite of Passage
    tags: classic-fiction, classic-literature, classics, classics-curriculum
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “Snow in April is abominable," said Anne. "Like a slap in the face when you expected a kiss.”
    ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Ingleside
    tags: april, snow
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    Johanna Spyri
    “I want to go about like the light-footed goats.”
    ― Johanna Spyri, Heidi
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “All thinking men are atheists.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
    tags: atheism, inspirational
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    Marcel Proust
    “Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.”
    ― Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way
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    Marcel Proust
    “Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can discern what he might never have seen in himself without this book. The reader's recognition in himself of what the book says is the proof of the book's truth.”
    ― Marcel Proust, Time Regained
    tags: writers-on-writing
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    Marcel Proust
    “Love is space and time measured by the heart.”
    ― Marcel Proust
    tags: love
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    Marcel Proust
    “One cannot change, that is to say become a different person, while continuing to acquiesce to the feelings of the person one has ceased to be.”
    ― Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way
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    E.B. White
    “After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die.”
    ― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web
    tags: birth, death, life
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    E.B. White
    “Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They'll believe anything they see in print.”
    ― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web
    tags: blind-faith, gullibility, humor, insidious, mass-media, media, media-distortion
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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “Perhaps, somewhere, some day, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again.”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
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    Franz Kafka
    “Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: honesty, truth-telling, writing
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    Franz Kafka
    “Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: beauty, wonder, young-at-heart, youth, youthfulness
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    Franz Kafka
    “I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.”
    ― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
    tags: kafka
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