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    Lawrence Durrell
    “I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced.”
    ― Lawrence Durrell
    tags: confirmation, reading, reality
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    Jane Austen
    “Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: prejudice, pride, vanity
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    Jane Austen
    “but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
    ― Jane Austen
    tags: books, catherine, or-the-bower
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    Jane Austen
    “I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men."

    "Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.”
    ― Jane Austen, Persuasion
    tags: books, clichés, constancy, double-standards, education, feminism, gender, inequality, love, men, misogyny, opportunities, social-norms, stereotypes, women
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    Jane Austen
    “I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.”
    ― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: grief, inspirational
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: love, respect
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata
    tags: beauty, delusion, goodness, lies, self-deception, wisdom
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: change, tolstoy
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Just as a painter needs light in order to put the finishing touches to his picture, so I need an inner light, which I feel I never have enough of in the autumn.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: autumn, inner-light, letter-to-strakhov, light, tolstoy
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: on-writing, storytelling
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Everything intelligent is so boring.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: boring, intelligent
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts
    tags: books, metaphor, soul
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    Fredrik Backman
    “Your grandma always had a terrible sense of direction. She could get lost on an escalator.”
    ― Fredrik Backman, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer
    tags: direction, getting-lost, humor
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    Ta-Nehisi Coates
    “The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free.”
    ― Ta-Nehisi Coates
    tags: books, finding-your-way, libraries, library
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    Walt Whitman
    “I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.”
    ― Walt Whitman
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
    tags: identity, originality
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    Donna Tartt
    “It's not about outward appearances but inward significance. A grandeur in the world, but not of the world, a grandeur that the world doesn't understand. That first glimpse of pure otherness, in whose presence you bloom out and out and out.

    A self one does not want. A heart one cannot help.”
    ― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch
    tags: bloom, grandeur, heart, help, inward, inward-significance, otherness, outward-appearances, self, understand, want, world
    67 likes



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