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#1
“What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul”
―
Victor Hugo ,
Les Misérables
tags:
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#3
“Stupid people are dangerous.”
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Suzanne Collins,
The Hunger Games
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#4
“For you, a thousand times over”
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Khaled Hosseini,
The Kite Runner
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#4
“It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. ”
―
Agatha Christie,
Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
tags:
love
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#5
“If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.”
―
Agatha Christie
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#6
“All for one and one for all.”
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Alexandre Dumas,
The Three Musketeers
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mottos
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#7
“It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.”
―
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
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#8
“The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.”
―
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
tags:
books
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humor
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#9
“Watson. Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient, come all the same.”
―
Arthur Conan Doyle,
Adventure of the Creeping Man
tags:
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favor
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friends
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friendship
898 likes
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#10
“It made her think that it was curious how much nicer a person looked when he smiled. She had not thought of it before.”
―
Frances Hodgson Burnett,
Secret Garden
431 likes
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#11
“All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.”
―
Mitch Albom,
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
tags:
profound
4712 likes
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#12
“He was a writer and words were his weapons.”
―
Christopher Moore,
Bloodsucking Fiends
tags:
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words
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writer
111 likes
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#13
“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
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Neil Gaiman,
Coraline
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#14
“Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway,
that's
brave.”
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Neil Gaiman,
Coraline
tags:
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#15
“A book is a dream that you hold in your hands."
(As quoted on
BookRiot
, June 18, 2013)”
―
Neil Gaiman
tags:
books
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dreams
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#16
“Their hands never touched, not even in an accidental brushing, and that was a good thing, for real intimacy has a dawn.”
―
Rita Leganski,
The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow
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#17
“It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”
―
Lucy Maud Montgomery,
Anne of Green Gables
tags:
happiness
4141 likes
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#18
“Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it.”
―
Lucy Maud Montgomery,
Anne of Green Gables
tags:
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laughter
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life
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#19
“There’s no hierarchy of pain. Suffering shouldn’t be ranked, because pain is not a contest.”
―
Lori Gottlieb,
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
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#20
“Intimacy is the only shield against insanity. Intimacy, not knowledge. Intimacy, not power.”
―
Eliot Schrefer,
The Darkness Outside Us
tags:
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