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Gabbe
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#1
“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.”
―
Hippocrates
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#2
“She wanted to be extraordinary, to possess a savage glitter.”
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Joy Williams
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#3
“Home's where you go when you run out of homes.”
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John le Carré,
The Honourable Schoolboy
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#4
“There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it”
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Gustave Flaubert
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#5
“I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.”
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Jorge Luis Borges
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books
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#6
“The past was always there, lived inside of you, and it helped to make you who you were. But it had to be placed in perspective. The past could not dominate the future.”
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Barbara Taylor Bradford,
Unexpected Blessings
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future
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952 likes
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#7
“No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.”
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Mary Wortley Montagu
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reading
956 likes
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#8
“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
―
J.K. Rowling,
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
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#9
“I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
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J.K. Rowling,
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
tags:
mischief
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#10
“I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.”
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Gary Paulsen,
Shelf Life: Stories by the Book
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books
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1991 likes
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#11
“Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul...”
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Marguerite Yourcenar,
Memoirs of Hadrian
858 likes
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#12
“Uno se hace hombre, se hace más humano, cuando tiene su propia biblioteca, aunque sea de un solo libro.”
―
Benito Taibo,
Persona normal
466 likes
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#13
“Preocúpate el día que te miren como si fueras una persona normal. Tú mereces tener una vida extraordinaria.”
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Benito Taibo,
Persona normal
268 likes
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#14
“La calidad del viaje se mide por la cantidad de recuerdos que en él acumules.”
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Benito Taibo,
Persona Normal
138 likes
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#15
“Soy de donde haya alguien que sonría, que me de la mano, que me bese. Soy de donde son los que resisten, sobreviven, los que se quitan un pedazo de pan de la boca para dárselo al otro. De allí soy. Allí me encuentro.”
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Benito Taibo,
Persona Normal
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#16
“Tal vez soy más de otros lugares en los que no he estado nunca y que a pesar de ello, anidan en mi corazón y en mi cabeza y son tan parte de mí como yo mismo.”
―
Benito Taibo,
Persona normal
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#17
“—Te amo, Viernes.
—Y yo a ti, jefe — contesté.”
―
Benito Taibo,
Persona normal
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emocional
18 likes
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#18
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
―
Oscar Wilde
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#19
“In a perfect world everything would be either black or white, right or wrong, and everyone would know the difference. But this isn't a perfect world. The problem is people who think it is.”
―
Neal Shusterman,
Unwind
tags:
oversimplification
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#20
“I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.”
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Neal Shusterman,
Unwind
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862 likes
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#21
“...One thing you learn when you've lived as long as I have-people aren't all good, and people aren't all bad. We move in and out of darkness and light all of our lives. Right now, I'm pleased to be in the light.”
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Neal Shusterman,
Unwind
tags:
human-nature
767 likes
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#22
“Nice socks.”
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Neal Shusterman,
Unwind
494 likes
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#23
“You can't change laws without first changing human nature.'
-Nurse Greta
You can't change human nature without first changing the law.'
-Nurse Yvonne”
―
Neal Shusterman,
Unwind
345 likes
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#24
“The sad truth about humanity...is that people believe what they're told. Maybe not the first time, but by the hundredth time, the craziest of ideas just becomes a given.”
―
Neal Shusterman,
UnWholly
tags:
indoctrination
237 likes
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#25
“There's ordinary people out there doing extraordinary things.”
―
Neal Shusterman,
UnWholly
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