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    W.B. Yeats
    “We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but out of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.”
    ― William Butler Yeats, The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
    tags: poetry
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    W.B. Yeats
    “Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.”
    ― W.B. Yeats
    tags: disappointment
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    W.B. Yeats
    “What can be explained is not poetry.”
    ― W.B. Yeats
    tags: poetry, yeats
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    W.B. Yeats
    “In dreams begin responsibilities.”
    ― William Butler Yeats, Responsibilities
    tags: dreams, responsibility
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    W.B. Yeats
    “Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.”
    ― William Butler Yeats
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    W.B. Yeats
    “There are no strangers, only friends you have not met yet.”
    ― William Butler Yeats
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    W.B. Yeats
    “All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.”
    ― William Butler Yeats
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    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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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Haruki Murakami
    “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
    tags: books, thought
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    Haruki Murakami
    “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
    ― haruki murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
    tags: inspirational, running
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    Dan Brown
    “Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.”
    ― Dan Brown, Angels & Demons
    tags: books, dan-brown, religion, science
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    George Orwell
    “The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: books, reading
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    Haruki Murakami
    “Does G get angry because it follows F in the alphabet? Does page 68 in a book start a revolution because it follows 67?”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
    tags: kafka-on-the-shore
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    Haruki Murakami
    “Any one who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who’s in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It’ like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven’t seen in a long time. It’s just a natural feeling. You’re not the person who discovered that feeling, so don’t try to patent it, okay?”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
    tags: kafka-on-the-shore
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    Franz Kafka
    “A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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    Franz Kafka
    “Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: books, castle, self
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    Franz Kafka
    “I am free and that is why I am lost.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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    Franz Kafka
    “I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: writing
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    Franz Kafka
    “All language is but a poor translation.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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    Franz Kafka
    “He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: death, dying, fear, franz, kafka, life
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    Franz Kafka
    “Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: beauty, wonder, young-at-heart, youth, youthfulness
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    Franz Kafka
    “It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.”
    ― Franz Kafka, The Trial
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    Franz Kafka
    “I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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    Franz Kafka
    “Paths are made by walking”
    ― Franz Kafka
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    Franz Kafka
    “A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: absurd
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    “If you stumble about believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?”
    ― Yann Martel, Life of Pi
    tags: belief
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    C.S. Lewis
    “You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: belief, life-and-death, truth
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    Robertson Davies
    “The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”
    ― Robertson Davies, Tempest-Tost
    tags: belief, bias, knowledge, perception, philosophy, reality
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