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    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
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    Albert Camus
    “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: seasons, strength, trial, triumph
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    Albert Camus
    “Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.”
    ― Albert Camus, Notebooks 1935-1942
    tags: carpe-diem, future, present
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    Albert Camus
    “Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: beatitudes, blessed, unbreakable
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    Albert Camus
    “Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: autumn
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    Albert Camus
    “To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.”
    ― Albert Camus
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    Albert Camus
    “The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
    ― Albert Camus
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality
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  • #9
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “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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  • #10
    Charlaine Harris
    “I don't like having feelings," Eric said coldly, and he left.
    That was a tough exit line to top.”
    ― Charlaine Harris, Club Dead
    tags: eric-northman, sookie-eric, sookie-stackhouse
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  • #11
    Charlaine Harris
    “My gran had always told me that a woman--any woman worth her salt--could do whatever she had to.”
    ― Charlaine Harris, Dead to the World
    tags: action, woman, women
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    Charlaine Harris
    “I hurt with you. I bled with you - not only because we're bonded but because of the love I have for you. -- Eric Northman”
    ― Charlaine Harris, Dead in the Family
    tags: eric-northman, sookie-stackhouse, sweet-talk
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    Charlaine Harris
    “Eric was holding my hands, and I was digging my nails into him like we were doing something else. He won't mind, I though, as I realized I'd drawn blood. And sure enough, he didn't. "Let go," he advised me, and I loosened my grip on his hands. "No, not of me," he said smiling. "You can hold on to me as long as you want.”
    ― Charlaine Harris, Club Dead
    tags: eric-northman, sookie-eric, sookie-stackhouse, sweet-talk, true-blood
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    Charlaine Harris
    “...But also because I find I really do…" He paused, as if he were about to say something outrageous. "I find I have feelings for you."
    "Oh," I said into his chest, sounding as astonished as Eric had(...)"Eric," I said, after a long pause, "I almost hate to say this, but I have feelings for you, too.”
    ― Charlaine Harris, Dead to the World
    tags: sookie-eric, sweet-talk
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    Martha Grimes
    “Melrose was so concerned that the [book]shop might close for lack of business, that he had suggested he would like to invest in it or even become a silent partner. "You see, books have always been a hobby of mine." Books had never been a hobby; they were a necessity.”
    ― Martha Grimes, Vertigo 42
    tags: books
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    Albert Camus
    “Because there is nothing here than invites us to cherish unhappy lovers. Nothing is more vain than to die for love. What we ought to do is live.”
    ― Albert Camus, Lyrical and Critical Essays
    tags: death, existence, love
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    Albert Camus
    “I cling like a miser to the freedom that disappears as soon as there is an excess of things.”
    ― Albert Camus, Lyrical and Critical Essays
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    Albert Camus
    “But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”
    ― Albert Camus
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    Julie Kagawa
    “I licked my lips and whispered, "Is this where you say you'll kill me?"
    One corner of his lips curled. "If you like," he murmured, a flicker of amusement finally crossing his face. "Though it's gotten far too interesting for that.”
    ― Julie Kagawa, The Iron King
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    Julie Kagawa
    “Bravo," said Grimalkin, peering down from Cold Tom's chest. "The Winter prince and Oberon's jester agreeing on something. The world must be ending.”
    ― Julie Kagawa, The Iron King
    tags: humor
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    Julie Kagawa
    “I've always wanted the IQ of a rock. No, wait. That would be an insult to the rock.”
    ― Julie Kagawa, The Iron King
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    Julie Kagawa
    “Careful, human." Grimalkin appeared on the corner of the stage, overshadowed by the dead chimera. "Do not lose your heart to a faery prince. It never ends well.”
    ― Julie Kagawa, The Iron King
    tags: grimalkin
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    Julie Kagawa
    “Ash pulled me back against him, brushing my hair from my neck. His mouth skimmed my shoulder, up my neck, sending butterflies swarming through my insides. "If you want to rest, then do so," he murmured against my skin. "The rain will not touch you, I promise.”
    ― Julie Kagawa, The Iron King
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “The cat is such a perfect symbol of beauty and superiority that it seems scarcely possible for any true aesthete and civilised cynic to do other than worship it.”
    ― H.P. Lovecraft, Cats and Dogs
    tags: cats, cats-vs-dogs
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    T.S. Eliot
    “We shall not cease from exploration
    And the end of all our exploring
    Will be to arrive where we started
    And know the place for the first time.”
    ― T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets
    tags: life-experience, poetry, self-discovery, wisdom
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    Sarah Addison Allen
    “Was it really that simple? Choosing a life? ...
    Maybe you don't fall in love. Maybe you jump.
    Maybe, just maybe, it's all a choice.
    (Josh Matteson)”
    ― Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost
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    Albert Camus
    “I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.”
    ― Albert Camus, The Stranger
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    Hermann Hesse
    “Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go”
    ― Herman Hesse
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    Hermann Hesse
    “I can think. I can wait. I can fast.”
    ― Herman Hesse, Siddhartha
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    Hermann Hesse
    “I have always been a great dreamer. In dreams I have always been more active than in my real life, and these shadows sapped me of my health and energy.”
    ― Herman Hesse
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