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#1

“Never underestimate the power of fiction to tell the truth.”
― Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues

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#2

“Words were different when they lived inside of you.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

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“I bet you could sometimes find all the mysteries of the universe in someone's hand.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

tags: answers, love, true, universe

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#4

“Even if we could turn back, we'd probably never end up where we started.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

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“Every time someone asks him a question, he just reaches in his pocket and pulls out an answer – but the guy sounds like a cardboard.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz

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“If you can't understand it without an explanation, you can't understand it with an explanation.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

tags: explanations, understanding

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#7

“...gazing up at the stars through the gently moving leaves. They seem close, the stars, but they're far away. Their light is millions, billions of years out of date. Messages with no sender.”
― Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

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#8

“People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: advice

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#9

“In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody else. It's important to combine the two in just the right amount.”
― Haruki Murakami, After Dark

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#10

“I’m not very good at putting my feelings into words. That’s why people misunderstand me.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

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#11

“If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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#12

“We come from the land, give our love and labor to her, and she nurtures us in return. When we die, we return to the land. In a way, she owns us. Palestine owns us and we belong to her”
― Susan Abulhawa, Mornings in Jenin

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“We're all born with the greatest treasures we'll ever have in life. One of those treasures is your mind, another is your heart.”
― Susan Abulhawa, Mornings in Jenin

tags: heart, mind

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#14

“Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

tags: education

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#15

“But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

tags: memory, pain

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#16

“Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

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#17

“And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: infinity

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#18

“The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

tags: boys, hate, love

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#19

“Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

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#20

“It kills me sometimes, how people die.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

tags: death

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#21

“I am haunted by humans.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

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#22

“So much good, so much evil. Just add water.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

tags: humor

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#23

“It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.”
― David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary

tags: betrayal, trust

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#24

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: truth

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#25

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: inspirational

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#26

“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
― George Orwell, Politics and the English Language

tags: 1946, language, power-of-words, propaganda, thought

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#27

“What good is power when you're too wise to use it?”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

tags: faint-heartedness, power, restraint, wisdom

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#28

“He knew now, and the knowledge was hard, that his task had never been to undo what he had done, but to finish what he had begun.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

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#29

“I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.”
― Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

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#30

“Name one hero who was happy.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

tags: heroes

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