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#1

“Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.”
― Walker Evans

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#2

“There are no heroes...in life, the monsters win.”
― George R. R. Martin

tags: game-of-thrones, heroes, monsters, sansa, sansa-stark

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#3

“I take no joy in mead nor meat, and song and laughter have become suspicious strangers to me. I am a creature of grief and dust and bitter longings. There is an empty place within me where my heart was once.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

tags: catelyn-stark, love, sad

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#4

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books

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#5

“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

tags: books, mind

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#6

“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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#7

“When you play a game of thrones you win or you die.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

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#8

“I will hurt you for this. I don't know how yet, but give me time. A day will come when you think yourself safe and happy, and suddenly your joy will turn to ashes in your mouth, and you'll know the debt is paid.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

tags: revenge

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#9

“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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#10

“The weariest nights, the longest days, sooner or later must perforce come to an end.”
― Baroness Emmuska Orczy

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#11

“If you want to know a country, read its writers.”
― Aminatta Forna

tags: literature, place

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#12

“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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#13

“Yes it sometimes happens and will sometimes happen again that I forget who I am and strut before my eyes, like a stranger. Then I see the sky different from what it is and the earth too takes on false colours. It looks like rest, it is not, I vanish happy in that alien light, which must have once been mine, I am willing to believe it, then the anguish of return, I won’t say where, I can’t, to absence perhaps, you must return, that’s all I know, it’s misery to stay, misery to go.”
― Samuel Beckett, Molloy / Malone Dies / The Unnamable

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#14

“In Ireland, you go to someone's house, and she asks you if you want a cup of tea. You say no, thank you, you're really just fine. She asks if you're sure. You say of course you're sure, really, you don't need a thing. Except they pronounce it ting. You don't need a ting. Well, she says then, I was going to get myself some anyway, so it would be no trouble. Ah, you say, well, if you were going to get yourself some, I wouldn't mind a spot of tea, at that, so long as it's no trouble and I can give you a hand in the kitchen. Then you go through the whole thing all over again until you both end up in the kitchen drinking tea and chatting.

In America, someone asks you if you want a cup of tea, you say no, and then you don't get any damned tea.

I liked the Irish way better.”
― C.E. Murphy, Urban Shaman

tags: hospitality, humor, ireland, tea

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#15

“Tea is the magic key to the vault where my brain is kept.”
― Frances Hardinge

tags: tea, twitter-quotes

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#16

“I am so fond of tea that I could write a whole dissertation on its virtues. It comforts and enlivens without the risks attendant on spirituous liquors. Gentle herb! Let the florid grape yield to thee. Thy soft influence is a more safe inspirer of social joy.”
― James Boswell, London Journal, 1762 - 1763

tags: tea

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#17

“I am in no way interested in immortality, but only in the taste of tea.”
― Lu T'ung

tags: awesomeness, tea

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#18

“I gave up practically the whole world for you,” I tell him, walking through the front door of my own love story. “The sun, stars, ocean, trees, everything, I gave it all up for you.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

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#19

“Meeting your soul mate is like walking into a house you've been in before - you will recognize the furniture, the pictures on the wall, the books on the shelves, the contents of drawers: You could find your way around in the dark if you had to.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

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#20

“Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

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#21

“To say that nothing is true is to realize that the foundations of society are fragile and that we must be the shepherds of our civilization.
To say that everything is permitted is to understand that we are the architects of our actions, and that we must live with their consequences, whether glorious or tragic.”
― Ezio Auditore da Firenze

tags: ac, assassin-s-creed, everything-is-permitted, ezio-auditore, mentor, nothing-is-true, wise

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#22

“The earth laughs in flowers.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: flowers, laughter

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#23

“As it was, then again it will be; though the course may change sometimes, rivers always lead to the sea.”
― Led Zeppelin

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#24

“If the sun refused to shine,
I'd still be loving you.
If mountains crumble to the sea,
there will still be you and me.”
― Led Zeppelin

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#25

“And as we wind on down the road
Our shadows taller than our souls
There walks a lady we all know
Who shines white light and wants to show
How everything still turns to gold
And if you listen very hard
The tune will come to you at last
Where all are one and one is all
To be a rock and not to roll.”
― Led Zeppelin

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#26

“There’s something about arriving in new cities, wandering empty streets with no destination. I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I'm born to leave.”
― Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps

tags: arriving, cities, city, destination, empty, home, leave, leaving, left, lose, love, new, streets, touring, travel, traveller, travelling, vagabond, wanderer, wanderlust

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#27

“To hear never-heard sounds,
To see never-seen colors and shapes,
To try to understand the imperceptible
Power pervading the world;
To fly and find pure ethereal substances
That are not of matter
But of that invisible soul pervading reality.
To hear another soul and to whisper to another soul;
To be a lantern in the darkness
Or an umbrella in a stormy day;
To feel much more than know.
To be the eyes of an eagle, slope of a mountain;
To be a wave understanding the influence of the moon;
To be a tree and read the memory of the leaves;
To be an insignificant pedestrian on the streets
Of crazy cities watching, watching, and watching.
To be a smile on the face of a woman
And shine in her memory
As a moment saved without planning.”
― Dejan Stojanovic

tags: cities, colors, darkness, dejan-stojanovic, eagle, ethereal, eyes, face, face-of-a-woman, feel, feelings, fly, flying, imperceptible, invisible, know, lantern, leaves, matter, memory, moment, moon, mountain, pedestrian, planning, poetry, poets, power, read, reality, shapes, shine, smile, soul, sounds, stormy-day, streets, substances, task-of-a-poet, tree, umbrella, understanding, watching, wave, whisper, world

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#28

“For those who are lost, there will always be cities that feel
like home.”
― Simon Van Booy, Everything Beautiful Began After

tags: cities

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#29

“Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased," Polo said. "Perhaps I am afraid of losing Venice all at once, if I speak of it, or perhaps, speaking of other cities, I have already lost it, little by little.”
― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

tags: cities, venice

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#30

“In this city, demons lurk under the ashes.”
― Giorgio De Maria, The Twenty Days of Turin

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