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    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
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    George R.R. Martin
    “I rose too high, loved too hard, dared too much. I tried to grasp a star, overreached, and fell.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
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    George R.R. Martin
    “A man might befriend a wolf, even break a wolf, but no man could truly tame a wolf.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
    tags: skinchanger, warg, winter-is-coming, wolves
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Keep walking. If I look back I am lost.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
    tags: daenerys
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Are you a maid, Penny?" She blushed. "Yes. Of course. Who would have –"
    "Stay that way. Love is madness, and lust is poison.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
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    George R.R. Martin
    “I know nothing, Ygritte, he [Jon Snow] thought, and perhaps I never will.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: identity
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Fear cuts deeper than swords.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: bravery, fear
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: encouragement, gandalf
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Never laugh at live dragons.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: dragons, wisdom
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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
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
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    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    “A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.”
    ― Nathaniel Hawthorne, Fanshawe
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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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    Oscar Wilde
    “Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: experience-mistakes-wisdom
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: books, morality, reading, writing
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: emotions, mercy
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    Oscar Wilde
    “When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: romance
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: reading
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: cynic
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: humor, seriousness
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: fate, history
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: secrecy
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    Elizabeth Gaskell
    “How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly.”
    ― Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters
    tags: evil, judgement, right
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    “I wish I could tell you how lonely I am. How cold and harsh it is here. Everywhere there is conflict and unkindness. I think God has forsaken this place. I believe I have seen hell and it's white, it's snow-white.”
    ― Sandy Welch
    tags: coldness, conflict, despair, harshness, hell, industrialization, loneliness, misattributed-elizabeth-gaskell, unkindness
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    Elizabeth Gaskell
    “Oh, Mr. Thornton, I am not good enough!'

    'Not good enough! Don't mock my own deep feeling of unworthiness.”
    ― Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
    tags: love
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    Elizabeth Gaskell
    “Margaret was not a ready lover, but where she loved she loved passionately, and with no small degree of jealousy.”
    ― Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
    tags: jealousy, love
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    Victor Hugo
    “Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.”
    ― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame
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    Victor Hugo
    “Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.”
    ― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
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    Victor Hugo
    “Do you know what friendship is?' he asked.
    'Yes,' replied the gypsy; 'it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.'
    'And love?' pursued Gringoire.
    'Oh! love!' said she, and her voice trembled, and her eye beamed. 'That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.”
    ― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
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