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#1

“As human beings, we have a natural compulsion to fill empty spaces.”
― Will Shortz

#2

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
― John Locke

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#3

“He was gazing at her, the way one did when one felt one was unobserved. He had that look on his face, the look he usually got only when he was playing the violin, as if he were completely caught up and entranced.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

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#4

“He touched her as he usually touched his beloved violin, with a soft and urgent grace that left her breathless.”
― Cassandra Clare

tags: clockwork-prince, jem-carstairs, tessa-gray

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#5

“I am the Love that Dare not Speak its Name”
― Alfred B. Douglas

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#6

“I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.”
― Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text

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#7

“Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?”
― Christopher Paolini

tags: books, reading

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#8

“Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: basil-hallward

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#9

“They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about. ”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: lifestyle

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#10

“To learn something, to master something, anything, is as sweet as first love.”
― Geoffrey Wolff

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#11

“I'll eat you up I love you so.”
― Maurice Sendak

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#12

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
― Anais Nin

tags: death, love

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#13

“Some nights the sky wept stars that quickly floated and disappeared into the darkness before our wishes could meet them. ”
― Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

tags: nonfiction, pretty

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#14

“Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.”
― Leonard Woolf

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#15

“This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

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#16

“Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?”
― William Blake

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#17

“Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

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#18

“We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.”
― Rex Stout, The Rubber Band

tags: folly, foolishness, luck, merits, nero-wolfe, vainer, vainity, wisdom, wise

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#19

“S wonderful! 'S marvelous!
That you should care for me!”
― Ira Gershwin

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#20

“We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.”
― Noam Chomsky

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#21

“Nothing on earth can make up for the loss of one who has loved you.”
― Selma Lagerlöf

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#22

“To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is – in other words, not a thing, but a think.”
― Penelope Fitzgerald, The Gate of Angels

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#23

“What a horrible feeling that is, to know that if the disease [AIDS] had primarily affected PTA presidents, or priests, or white teenage girls, the epidemic would have been ended years earlier, and tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of lives would have been saved.”
― David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing

tags: aids, homosexuality, society

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#24

“So what’s your story?” Ryan asks.
Avery looks up at him, hand still in the water. “My story?”
“Yeah. Everybody has at least one.”
― David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing

tags: story

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#25

“And Avery looks up at just that moment and sees the blue-haired boy glancing his way.

Some of us applaud. Others look away, because it hurts too much.”
― David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing

tags: glance, hurts, love

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#26

“You do not need to be writing or painting or sculpting in order to be creative. You must simply create.”
― David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing

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#27

“All the quips in the world couldn’t prevent Oscar Wilde from becoming a lovesick fool.”
― David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing

tags: lovesick-fool, oscar-wilde

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#28