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#1

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#2

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: books, reading

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#3

“Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories

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#4

“I am not young enough to know everything.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: age

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#5

“Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: love, ordinary, people

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#6

“With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

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#7

“If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#8

“The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.”
― J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan

tags: barrie, belief, fantasy, flying, imagination, kensington-gardens, london, magic, neverland, park, peter-pan, scotland, self-confidence

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#9

“All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

tags: faith, life, pixie-dust, trust

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#10

“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

tags: adventure, love

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#11

“Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

tags: goodbye

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#12

“I'm not young enough to know everything.”
― J.M. Barrie, The Admirable Crichton

tags: wisdom

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#13

“Dreams do come true, if only we wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

tags: sacrifice

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#14

“Second star to the right and straight on 'til morning. ”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

tags: childhood-memory

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#15

“Never is an awfully long time.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

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#16

“Stars are beautiful, but they may not take part in anything, they must just look on forever.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

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#17

“If you have it [love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.”
― J.M. Barrie

tags: love

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#18

“Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.”
― J.M. Barrie

tags: enjoyment, perspective, work

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#19

“The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.”
― J.M. Barrie, The Little White Bird

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#20

“All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again.”
― J.M. Barrie , Peter Pan

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#21

“Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

tags: love, suffering

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#22

“Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

tags: autumn, mist, summer

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#23

“I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.”
― Dodie Smith (Cassandra Mortmain, I Capture the Castle), I Capture the Castle

tags: love, young

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#24

“...I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life, so I am curbing myself.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

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#25

“Perhaps if I make myself write I shall find out what is wrong with me.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

tags: writing

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#26

“Only the margin left to write on now. I love you, I love you, I love you.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

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#27

“Oh, it is wonderful to wake up in the morning with things to look forward to!”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

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#28

“There is something revolting about the way girls' minds so often jump to marriage long before they jump to love.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

tags: courtship, marriage

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#29

“If you love people, you take them on trust.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

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#30

“... for I know I shall be interrupted-- I shall want to be, really, because life is too exciting to sit still for long.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

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