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    Jane Austen
    “Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.”
    ― Jane Austen, Emma
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    Irène Némirovsky
    “Waiting is erotic. ”
    ― Bruno, Irene Nemirovsky, Suite Francaise
    tags: bruno
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    Charles M. Schulz
    “All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
    ― Charles M. Schulz
    tags: chocolate, food, humor
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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    Wendy Wasserstein
    “Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.”
    ― Wendy Wasserstein
    tags: carpe-diem, inspirational, life
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    Frances Hodgson Burnett
    “Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way - or always to have it.”
    ― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
    tags: children
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.”
    ― Charlotte Bronte
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you!”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: charlotte-bronte, heart, heartbreak, jane-eyre, love, misconceptions, obscurity, parting, plainness, poverty, soul
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “He is not to them what he is to me," I thought: "he is not of their kind. I believe he is of mine- I am sure he is- I feel akin to him- I understand the language of his countenance and movements: though rank and wealth sever us widely, I have something in my brain and heart, in my blood and nerves, that assimilates me mentally to him.”
    ― Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “Mademoiselle is a fairy," he said, whispering mysteriously.”
    ― Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “To you I am neither man nor woman. I come before you as an author only. It is the sole standard by which you have a right to judge me--the sole ground on which I accept your judgment.”
    ― Charlotte Bronte
    tags: inspirational, quote, writing
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I am no bird, no net ensnares me.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë
    tags: charlotte-bronte, classics, freedom-of-speech, jane-eyre
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  • #13
    Jules Verne
    “If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.”
    ― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
    tags: philosophical
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    Jules Verne
    “The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.”
    ― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
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    Jules Verne
    “Aures habent et non audient` - `They have ears but hear not”
    ― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
    tags: philosophical
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    Jules Verne
    “Nature's creative power is far beyond man's instinct of destruction.”
    ― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
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    Jules Verne
    “If his destiny be strange, it is also sublime.”
    ― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
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  • #18
    J.K. Rowling
    “Newt Scamander: My philosophy is that worrying means you suffer twice.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay
    tags: inspirational-quotes
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Jacob: Newt . . . I don't think I'm dreaming.

    Newt: What gave it away?

    Jacob: I ain't got the brains to make this up.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle; Corrections And Editor Edgar W. Smith; Illustrators, The Hound of the Baskervilles
    tags: classic, crime, detective, mystery, novel
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “You see, but you do not observe.”
    ― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Scandal in Bohemia
    tags: kindlehighlight
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  • #22
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
    tags: inspirational
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Boscombe Valley Mystery - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story
    tags: deception, detection, evidence, facts, obviousness, sherlock-holmes
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    Neil Gaiman
    “People believe, thought Shadow. It's what people do. They believe, and then they do not take responsibility for their beliefs; they conjure things, and do not trust the conjuration. People populate the darkness; with ghosts, with gods, with electrons, with tales. People imagine, and people believe; and it is that rock solid belief, that makes things happen.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, American Gods
    tags: belief
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Even nothing cannot last forever.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, American Gods
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    Hayao Miyazaki
    “I’ve become skeptical of the unwritten rule that just because a boy and girl appear in the same feature, a romance must ensue. Rather, I want to portray a slightly different relationship, one where the two mutually inspire each other to live - if I’m able to, then perhaps I’ll be closer to portraying a true expression of love.”
    ― Hayao Miyazaki
    tags: friendship, love, romance
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    Hayao Miyazaki
    “Life is a winking light in the darkness.”
    ― Hayao Miyazaki
    tags: life
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  • #28
    Diane Ackerman
    “I watched her face switch among the radio stations of memory”
    ― Diane Ackerman, The Zookeeper's Wife
    tags: great-turn-of-phrase
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    Diane Ackerman
    “I don't understand all the fuss. If any creature is in danger, you save it, human or animal.”
    ― Diane Ackerman, The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism, self-awareness, self-determination, women
    13881 likes



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