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    Ray Bradbury
    “You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
    ― Ray Bradbury
    tags: culture, reading
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    Charles Bukowski
    “Do you hate people?”

    “I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Barfly
    tags: humour, misanthropy, paraphrased
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    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life
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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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    Joanne Harris
    “Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.”
    ― Joanne Harris, Chocolat
    tags: alive, bittersweet, chocolate, happiness, heart, simplicity, torture
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    Joanne Harris
    “I let it go. It's like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a while, whoever you are, you just have to let go, and the river brings you home.”
    ― Joanne Harris, Five Quarters of the Orange
    tags: acceptance, home
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    Isaac Marion
    “You should always be taking pictures, if not with a camera then with your mind. Memories you capture on purpose are always more vivid than the ones you pick up by accident.”
    ― Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies
    tags: live-in-the-here-and-now, memory, recollection
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    Steve Goodier
    “Wherever you are, be there. If you can be fully present now, you’ll know what it means to live.”
    ― Steve Goodier
    tags: attention, life, live, live-in-the-here-and-now, live-in-the-moment, live-now, presence, present, present-moment
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    Elizabeth Grace Saunders
    “Be happy NOW. This moment is all you’ve got”
    ― Elizabeth Grace Saunders, The 3 Secrets to Effective Time Investment: Achieve More Success with Less Stress: Foreword by Cal Newport, author of So Good They Can't Ignore You
    tags: attitude, happiness, inspiration, inspirational-attitude, live-in-the-here-and-now, live-in-the-moment, self-improvement
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    Мария Семенова
    “Я молюсь своим богам и не восстаю на чужих. (I pray to my gods but don’t rise against the gods of others.)”
    ― Maria Semenova (Мария Семенова)
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    John Green
    “I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is inprobably biased toward the consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed. And who am I, living in the middle of history, to tell the universe that it-or my observation of it-is temporary?”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: john-green, tfios, the-fault-in-our-stars
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    John Green
    “It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: john-green, the-fault-in-our-stars
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    John Green
    “there is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: fault, human-nature, john-green, stars, the-fault-in-our-stars
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    John Green
    “Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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    John Green
    “The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
    ― John Green, Looking for Alaska
    tags: compassion, life, suffering
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