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    Giacomo Puccini
    “See, the night doth enfold us! See, all the world lies sleeping!”
    ― Giacomo Puccini
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    Toni Morrison
    “If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
    ― Toni Morrison
    tags: books, writing
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    Bo Burnham
    “What's important is that you stay true to yourself. Because when you enter the real world, the most valuable thing you can bring is all your you-ness. The world doesn't need any more hot chicks or tough guys or smooth talkers - the world needs more you. And don't let anyone tell you otherwise.”
    ― Bo Burnham
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    Bo Burnham
    “Imagination They say adults have no imagination. Not true. Just instead of dinosaurs and spaceships, they imagine silence and the new babysitter bent over the coffee table.”
    ― Bo Burnham, Egghead: Or, You Can't Survive on Ideas Alone
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    Bo Burnham
    “Big

    When I was little,
    I killed ants with a magnifying glass.
    And now I'm big.
    And I worry I'm doing the same thing with you.”
    ― Bo Burnham
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    Bo Burnham
    “Forever and An Instant met up one day,
    Had a short, but lovely talk,
    then each went on it's way.”
    ― Bo Burnham, Egghead; or, You Can't Survive on Ideas Alone
    tags: forever-and-an-instant
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina
    tags: family, first-sentence
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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
    “If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: perfection
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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
    “If you want to be happy, be.”
    ― Leo Tolstory
    tags: inspirational
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Compassion is the basis of morality.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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  • #14
    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: inspirational, love
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    Isaac Marion
    “In my mind I am eloquent; I can climb intricate scaffolds of words to reach the highest cathedral ceilings and paint my thoughts. But when I open my mouth, everything collapses.”
    ― Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: jordan-baker
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: demographics
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: affection, amity, love
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: alcohol, drinking, sobriety
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    Sheryl Sandberg
    “Done is better than perfect.”
    ― Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
    tags: business, career, inspirational, lean-in, self-help, women
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    Victor Hugo
    “Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”
    ― Victor Hugo
    tags: literature, music, poetry
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
    tags: lost-innocence, memories
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.”
    ― Francis Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
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  • #27
    Sophocles
    “Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.”
    ― Sophocles
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    Sophocles
    “All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.”
    ― Sophocles, Antigone
    tags: change, character, course, crime, failure, mistakes, pride, yield
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    Toni Morrison
    “In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.”
    ― Toni Morrison
    tags: bigotry, politics, racism
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    Pierre Abélard
    “Against the disease of writing one must take special precautions, since it is a dangerous and contagious disease.”
    ― Pierre Abélard, The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse
    tags: peter-abelard, writing
    37 likes



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