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    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
    tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
    “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
    ― Jorge Luis Borges
    tags: books, library
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    If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use
    “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: books, reading
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    Mark Twain
    “′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, classic, reading
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: books, morality, reading
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    William Styron
    “A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
    ― William Styron, Conversations with William Styron
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    C.S. Lewis
    “A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, children-s-books, reading
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    Ansel Adams
    “When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.”
    ― Ansel Adams
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    Edith Sitwell
    “My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.”
    ― Edith Sitwell
    tags: hobbies, music, reading, silence
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    Elbert Hubbard
    “He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
    tags: silence, understand
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Complete Sherlock Holmes
    tags: sherlock-holmes, silence
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    Lao Tzu
    “Silence is a source of Great Strength.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: silence
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    Jodi Picoult
    “Seeing her sitting there unresponsive makes me realize that silence has a sound.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
    tags: remaining-silent, silence
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    William S. Burroughs
    “Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.”
    ― William S. Burroughs, The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs
    tags: introspection, loquacity, remaining-silent, reticence, silence
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
    tags: acquiescence, authority, complicity, dissent, protest, silence
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    Criss Jami
    “The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
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    George Eliot
    “Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.”
    ― George Eliot, Impressions of Theophrastus Such
    tags: loquacity, remaining-silent, silence
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    Karl Marx
    “The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.”
    ― Karl Marx
    tags: misattributed
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    Karl Marx
    “Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who make you laugh, who help you when you’re in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through.”
    ― Karl Marx
    tags: genuinely-care
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    Karl Marx
    “Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.”
    ― Karl Marx
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    Karl Marx
    “I am nothing but I must be everything.”
    ― Karl Marx, Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right
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    Karl Marx
    “Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said enough!”
    ― Karl Marx
    tags: humor, inspirational, last-words
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    Friedrich Engels
    “An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.”
    ― Friedrich Engels Karl Marx
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    Karl Marx
    “The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.

    [These words are also inscribed upon his grave]”
    ― Karl Marx, Eleven Theses on Feuerbach
    tags: action, change, ideology, philosophy, resistance, struggle
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    Karl Marx
    “The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.”
    ― Karl Marx
    tags: duopoly, oppression, politics, representation, repression, society
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
    and rightdoing there is a field.
    I'll meet you there.

    When the soul lies down in that grass
    the world is too full to talk about.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: friendship, love, peace, silence, soul, zen
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: brokenness, healing, scars, suffering
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
    ― Rumi
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “The minute I heard my first love story,
    I started looking for you, not knowing
    how blind that was.
    Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.
    They're in each other all along.”
    ― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, The Illuminated Rumi
    tags: lovers
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