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#1

“There was no harm in taking aim, even if the target was a dream.”
― John Knowles, A Separate Peace

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#2

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

tags: truth

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#3

“If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims

tags: criticism

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#4

“There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. ”
― George Carlin

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#5

“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.”
― Roald Dahl

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#6

“You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.”
― Amy Bloom

tags: beauty, body-image, imperfections, self-acceptance

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#8

“The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear”
― Aung San Suu Kyi

tags: civil-rights

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#9

“You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
― Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

tags: imagination

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#10

“We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

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#11

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
― Mary Oliver

tags: poetry

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#12

“One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.”
― Mary Renault, The Persian Boy

tags: alexander-the-great, mary-renault, the-persian-boy

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#13

“Great minds are always feared by lesser minds.”
― Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol

tags: knowledge

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#14

“I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of catfish.”
― Edith Sitwell

tags: catfish, eccentricity, eels, fish, individuality

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#15

“People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little.”
― James Hilton, Lost Horizon

tags: life, people, viewpoint

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#16

“Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.”
― Anita Desai

tags: travel

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#17

“It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

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#18

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
― Frederick Douglass

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#19

“What a long strange trip it's been.”
― Jerry Garcia

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#20

“Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone.”
― Czeslaw Milosz

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#21

“Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.”
― Pearl S. Buck

tags: contentment

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#22

“My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope - make yourself a structure you can live inside.”
― Aimee Bender, Willful Creatures

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#23

“Dare to be naïve.”
― Richard Buckminster Fuller

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#24

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

tags: heart, importance, inspiration, secret, the-little-prince

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#25

“Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.”
― Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia: La musique, le cerveau et nous

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#26

“That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

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#27

“Tonight I can write the saddest lines
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.”
― Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

tags: love, sadness

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#28

“The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.”
― Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin

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#29

“There is no sinner like a young saint.”
― Aphra Behn

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#30

“The more the heart is nourished with happiness, the more it is insatiable.”
― Gabrielle Roy

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#31

“Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise.”
― Ingmar Bergman

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