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#1

“Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

tags: james-joyce, ulysses

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“Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.”
― Lemony Snicket

tags: humor-reading

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#3

“Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint!”
― Jane Austen, Love and Freindship

tags: advice-for-daily-living

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#4

“Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

tags: shakespeare

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#5

“A good snapshot keeps a moment from running away.”
― Eudora Welty

tags: memory, photography

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#6

“Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

tags: love

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#7

“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: art, chaos

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#8

“A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

tags: books, fire, star, universe

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#9

“Keep your eye on the doughnut, not on the hole.”
― David Lynch, Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity: 10th Anniversary Edition

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#10

“New mysteries. New day. Fresh doughnuts.”
― David Lynch

tags: doughnuts, existentialism, freedom-of-thought, inspirational, lifestyle, love, mystery

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#11

“Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg before it is broken.”
― M.F.K. Fisher

tags: egg, food

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#12

“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.”
― Bernard Meltzer

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#13

“You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”
― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

tags: burdens, empowerment, flying, freedom, unburdening, weight

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#14

“For one can live in friendship
With verses and with cards, with Plato and with wine,
And hide beneath the gentle cover of our playful pranks
A noble heart and mind.”
― Alexander Pushkin

tags: russian-poetry

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#15

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

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#16

“The sunflower is mine, in a way.”
― Vincent van Gogh

tags: sunflowers

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#17

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
― Plato

tags: attributed-no-source, compassion, kindness

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#18

“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
― Henry James

tags: kindness

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#19

“Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
― Anton Chekhov

tags: broken-glass, glass, moon, moonshine, show-don-t-tell, writing

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#20

“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.”
― Norman Vincent Peale

tags: inspirational

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#21

“Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.”
― Ovid

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#22

“Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.”
― J.K. Rowling

tags: books

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#23

“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.”
― J.K. Rowling

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#24

“I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.”
― J.K. Rowling

tags: books, magic, magic-books

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#25

“Time is making fools of us again.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

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#26

“Somewhere out in the darkness, a phoenix was singing in a way Harry had never heard before: a stricken lament of terrible beauty. And Harry felt, as he had felt about phoenix song before, that the music was inside him, not without: It was his own grief turned magically to song..”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

tags: beauty, grief, phoenix-lament, song, terrible

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#27

“Laughter is sunshine, it chases winter from the human face.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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#28

“Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

tags: seasons

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#29

“Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.”
― Victor Hugo

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#30

“Each night he added to the pattern of his fancies until drowsiness closed down upon some vivid scene with an oblivious embrace. For awhile these reveries provided an outlet for his imagination; they were a satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality, a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy's wing.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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