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    Kiran Desai
    “Could fulfillment be felt as deeply as loss.”
    ― Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss
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    Markus Zusak
    “Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
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    Kiran Desai
    “His lines had been honed over centuries, passed down through generations, for poor people needed certain lines; the script was always the same, and they had no option but to beg for mercy.”
    ― Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss
    tags: begging, human, labor, man, mercy, no-option, poor, poverty
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  • #4
    Kiran Desai
    “But the child shouldn't be blamed for the father's crime, she tried to reason with herself, then. But should the child therefore also enjoy the father's illicit gain?”
    ― Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss
    tags: fate
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  • #5
    Mitch Albom
    “Death ends a life, not a relationship.”
    ― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
    tags: death, life
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  • #6
    Bill Watterson
    “Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.”
    ― Bill Watterson
    tags: calvin-and-hobbes, humor
    3632 likes

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  • #7
    Bill Watterson
    “You know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon...everything's different.”
    ― Bill Watterson
    tags: change-life
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  • #8
    Bill Watterson
    “Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems?”
    ― Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes: Sunday Pages, 1985-1995: An Exhibition Catalogue
    tags: army, fighting, peace, soldiers, war
    1300 likes

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  • #9
    Bill Watterson
    “I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.”
    ― Bill Watterson
    tags: calvin-and-hobbes, humor, life
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  • #10
    Kazuo Ishiguro
    “All I know is that I've wasted all these years looking for something, a sort of trophy I'd get only if I really, really did enough to deserve it. But I don't want it anymore, I want something else now, something warm and sheltering, something I can turn to, regardless of what I do, regardless of who I become. Something that will just be there, always, like tomorrow's sky.”
    ― Kazuo Ishiguro, When We Were Orphans
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  • #11
    Bill Watterson
    “In my opinion, we don't devote nearly enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.”
    ― Bill Watterson
    tags: humor, jerks, science
    1289 likes

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  • #12
    Bill Watterson
    “There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want.”
    ― Bill Watterson
    tags: idleness, time, wasting-time
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  • #13
    Kazuo Ishiguro
    “Until recently, I didn’t think that humans could choose
    loneliness. That there were sometimes forces more powerful than the wish to avoid loneliness.”
    ― Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun
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  • #14
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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  • #16
    André Gide
    “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
    ― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves
    tags: life, love
    62177 likes

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  • #17
    Khaled Hosseini
    “But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini
    tags: life
    17085 likes

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  • #18
    Khaled Hosseini
    “For you, a thousand times over”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
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  • #19
    Bill Watterson
    “You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help.”
    ― Bill Watterson
    tags: bad-day, calvin-and-hobbes, luck
    2893 likes

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  • #20
    Bill Watterson
    “It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.”
    ― Bill Watterson
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  • #21
    Bill Watterson
    “Reality continues to ruin my life.”
    ― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
    tags: calvin-and-hobbes, humor, life
    21174 likes

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    Kazuo Ishiguro
    “Kids can be hurtful sometimes. They believe if you happen to be an adult, nothing can possibly hurt you.”
    ― Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun
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  • #23
    Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.
    “Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
    ― Roald Dahl
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  • #24
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
    177072 likes

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  • #25
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “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.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
    58029 likes

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  • #26
    Susanna Clarke
    “Perhaps even people you like and admire immensely can make you see the World in ways you would rather not.”
    ― Susanna Clarke, Piranesi
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  • #27
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
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  • #28
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
    tags: experience, passive
    103 likes

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  • #29
    Munshi Premchand
    “लिखते तो वह लोग हैं, जिनके अंदर कुछ दर्द है, अनुराग है, लगन है, विचार है। जिन्होंने धन और भोग-विलास को जीवन का लक्ष्य बना लिया, वह क्या लिखेंगे? क”
    ― Munshi Premchand, गोदान [Godan]
    33 likes



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