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    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
    tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books
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    George R.R. Martin
    “... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: books, mind
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: identity
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    Albert Camus
    “You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, happiness, meaning-of-life
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    Albert Camus
    “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: seasons, strength, trial, triumph
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    Albert Camus
    “But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”
    ― Albert Camus
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    Albert Camus
    “To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.”
    ― Albert Camus
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    Albert Camus
    “The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: civilization, writers, writing
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    Albert Camus
    “Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: on-fiction
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    Albert Camus
    “I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.”
    ― Albert Camus, The Stranger
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    Albert Camus
    “Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth”
    ― Albert Camus
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    Albert Camus
    “When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.”
    ― Albert Camus, The First Man
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    Albert Camus
    “In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion."

    [The Minotaur]”
    ― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
    tags: introspection, retreat, solitude
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    Albert Camus
    “I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.”
    ― Albert Camus, Notebooks 1951-1959
    tags: atheism, god, religion
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    Albert Camus
    “Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: albert-camus, lecture, philosophy, sleep
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    Albert Camus
    “What is a rebel? A man who says no.”
    ― Albert Camus
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    Albert Camus
    “You can't create experience, you undergo it.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: contemporary-romance
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    Albert Camus
    “There is not love of life without despair about life.”
    ― Albert Camus, Lyrical and Critical Essays
    tags: mortality
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    Albert Camus
    “Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: idleness, inaction, mediocrity
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    Albert Camus
    “We are all special cases.”
    ― Albert Camus
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    Albert Camus
    “Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.”
    ― Albert Camus
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    Albert Camus
    “Peace is the only battle worth waging.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: peace
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    Albert Camus
    “I rebel; therefore I exist.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: existentialism, rebel
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    Albert Camus
    “The need to be right - the sign of a vulgar mind.”
    ― Albert Camus
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    Albert Camus
    “I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.”
    ― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: ataraxy, defiance, empowerment, independence, individuality, self-assurance, self-awareness, self-containment, self-determination, self-esteem, self-reliance, self-respect, self-sufficiency, self-trust, solitude
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    George R.R. Martin
    “What do we say to the Lord of Death?'

    'Not today.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: defiance, fear-of-death
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    August Strindberg
    “Life is not so idiotically mathematical that only the big eat the small; it is just as common for a bee to kill a lion or at least to drive it mad.”
    ― August Strindberg, Miss Julie
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    August Strindberg
    “There are poisons that blind you, and poisons that open your eyes.”
    ― August Strindberg, The ghost sonata
    tags: blindness, poison, sight, vision
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    Albert Camus
    “I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.”
    ― Albert Camus, L'Étranger
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