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“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: romantic

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#3

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change. The sun might shine, or the clouds might lour: but nothing could appear to me as it had done the day before.”
― Mary Shelley

tags: beautiful

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#4

“Had we but world enough, and time”
― Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress

tags: life, living, poetry, time

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#5

“The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

tags: algernon, beauty, humor, making-love, plainness, women

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#6

“You say we could lose our lives for this child. I would consider that the greatest honor that could come to my family.”
― Corrie Ten Boom

tags: emotional

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#7

“I could even feel how perishable all my moments really were, how all my life they had come to me begging to be lived, to be cherished even.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Mermaid Chair

tags: beautful

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#8

“The sun's gone dim, and the moon's gone black. For I loved him, and he didn't love back.”
― Dorothy Parker

tags: love

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#9

“Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.”
― Dorothy Parker

tags: humor

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#10

“Never confuse movement with action.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: action, progress

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#11

“Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.”
― Victor Hugo

tags: imagination, intelligence, reason

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#12

“What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.”
― Jane Austen

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#13

“Insight is not a lightbulb that goes off inside our heads. It is a flickering candle that can easily be snuffed out.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

tags: intuition

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#14

“This sweetest and best of all creatures, faultless in spite of all her faults.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

tags: love

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#15

“...he would have been lost except he started out lost and when you start out completely lost, it's hard to get loster.”
― Orson Scott Card

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#16

“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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#17

“Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
― L.M. Montgomery

tags: beginnings, fresh-start, inspirational, mistake, mistakes, new-day, start-over, tomorrow

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#18

“absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

tags: whimsical

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#19

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: better-life-empathy

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#20

“Murdering anything is just plain criminal, but a Southerner murdering a magnolia? Well, that's an unforgivable sacrilege against nautre and the South.”
― Beth Hoffman

tags: humor

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#21

“There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.”
― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

tags: awesome, friendship, inspirational

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#22

“If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: boasting, conceit, ironic

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#23

“That's what friends should do. cherish the good and pretend not to notice the harmless rest.”
― Beth Hoffman, Saving CeeCee Honeycutt

tags: acceptance, friendship

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#24

“I'll not go where there is any of that sort of thing going on, again. It's the sure way, and the only sure way;”
― Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson

tags: wisdom

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#25

“...a blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something.”
― Chaim Potok

tags: wisdom

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#26

“Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know”
― John Keats, The Complete Poems

tags: beauty, poetry, truth

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#27

“No one knows he is fortunate until he becomes unfortunate, that's the way the world is.”
― Chaim Potok, The Chosen

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#28

“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

tags: albus-dumbledore, courage, friends

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#29

“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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#30

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: appearance, lost, strength

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#31

“Memory is not what the heart desires. That is only a mirror, be it clear as Kheled-zaram. Or so says the heart of Gimli the Dwarf.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

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