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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Andrew Solomon
    “I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.”
    ― Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
    tags: conversation, depression, fear, life, speaking, words
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    Charles Bukowski
    “when I am feeling
    low
    all i have to do is
    watch my cats
    and my
    courage
    returns”
    ― Charles Bukowski
    tags: cats, courage, pets, poem, poetry
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Maya Angelou
    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
    ― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing
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    Mae West
    “I have found men who didn't know how to kiss. I've always found time to teach them.”
    ― Mae West
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    Alice Pung
    “I never tell them about our lives. You know why? It is not because I am ashamed. It is because some things are just good, too good to be judged.”
    ― Alice Pung, Laurinda
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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “Nothing resembles a person as much as the way he dies.”
    ― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant.”
    ― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.”
    ― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “The world is divided into those who screw and those who do not. He distrusted those who did not—when they strayed from the straight and narrow it was something so unusual for them that they bragged about love as if they had just invented it.”
    ― Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
    tags: lust
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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.”
    ― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
    tags: wisdom
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    Allen Saunders
    “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
    ― Allen Saunders
    tags: fate, life, misattributed-john-lennon, planning, plans
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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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    Cassandra Clare
    “Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
    tags: books, literature, philosphy, poetry, reading
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    Annie Dillard
    “She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.”
    ― Annie Dillard, The Living
    tags: books, literature, reading, words
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    علاء الأسواني
    “إن الأدب يؤدي إلي تغيير إنساني يجعل الإنسان أكثر رقيا وأكثر رحابة ويعمل علي زيادة معرفة النفس البشرية، كما يجعل الإنسان يفهم الآخرين قبل الحكم عليهم”
    ― علاء الأسواني
    tags: general, inspirational, literature
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    Jorge Luis Borges
    “When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation."

    [As attributed by Alastair Reid in Neruda and Borges, The New Yorker, June 24, 1996; as well as in The Talk of the Town, The New Yorker, July 7, 1986]”
    ― Jorge Luis Borges
    tags: books, death, immortality, literature, reading, transformation, words
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
    tags: books, literature, reading, words
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    Maxim Gorky
    “Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”
    ― Maxim Gorky, The Lower Depths and Other Plays
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    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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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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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Elbert Hubbard
    “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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    Anita Brookner
    “Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature”
    ― Anita Brookner, A Start in Life
    tags: first-lines, literature, ruined
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    Anita Brookner
    “We shall none of us ever make love again, she thought, and did not much care. Life had not been too harsh; the sea would still be there at the end. She was nearly ready.”
    ― Anita Brookner, The Debut
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    Jane Austen
    “There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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    Wayne Johnston
    “You are, Devlin, too young to understand how rare a thing true love is, how unlikely in this world to happen, and when it does, how unlikely to endure. And once it is lost, how hard to live without.”
    ― Wayne Johnston, The Navigator of New York
    tags: love
    6 likes

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    Wayne Johnston
    “Nothing so reminds you like the sea that the enemy of life is not death but loneliness.”
    ― Wayne Johnston, The Navigator of New York
    12 likes



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