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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
    tags: action, attitude, choice, imagination, inspiration, life, pretend
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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
    tags: feminism, philosophy
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    Banana Yoshimoto
    “I love feeling the rhythm of other people's lives. It's like traveling.”
    ― Banana Yoshimoto, The Lake
    tags: people, rhythms
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “It is hard to understand why work should be called a curse—until one remembers what bitterness forced or uncongenial labour is. But the work for which we are fitted—which we feel we are sent into the world to do—what a blessing it is and what fullness of joy it holds.”
    ― L.M. Montgomery, Emily's Quest
    tags: labor, labour, work
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    Bohumil Hrabal
    “If a book has anything to say, it burns with a quiet laugh, because any book worth its salt points up and out of itself.”
    ― Bohumil Hrabal, Too Loud a Solitude
    tags: reading
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    Sappho
    “I declare
    That later on,
    Even in an age unlike our own,
    Someone will remember who we are.”
    ― Sappho, Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments
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  • #7
    Jhumpa Lahiri
    “Books are the best means—private, discreet, reliable—of overcoming reality.”
    ― Jhumpa Lahiri, In Other Words: A Memoir
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    Jane Austen
    “Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: comfort, inspirational, jane-austen, pride-and-prejudice
    333 likes

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  • #9
    The world was hers for the reading.
    “The world was hers for the reading.”
    ― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
    tags: books, feminist, reading
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  • #10
    Ray Bradbury
    “You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
    tags: writing
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    Margaret Atwood
    “There’s only so long you can feel sorry for a person before you come to feel that their affliction is an act of malice committed by them against you.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, Stone Mattress: Nine Tales
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    Mary Wollstonecraft
    “I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.”
    ― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
    tags: empowerment, equality, freedom, gender, independence, men, reason, self-determination, submission, superiority, women, women-s-rights
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    Virginia Woolf
    “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: food, love
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  • #14
    William Shakespeare
    “The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch
    Which hurts and is desired.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “If civilization has an opposite, it is war.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “The body grows slowly and steadily but the soul grows by leaps and bounds. It may come to its full stature in an hour.”
    ― L.M. Montgomery, Rilla of Ingleside
    tags: adulthood, growth, soul
    341 likes

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    L.M. Montgomery
    “But is there not something strange about any room that has been occupied through generations? Death has lurked in it…love has been rosy red in it…births have been here…all the passions…all the hopes. It is full of wraths.”
    ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Windy Poplars
    tags: l-m-montgomery
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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.”
    ― Simone DeBeauvoir
    tags: anti-oppression
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    Marjane Satrapi
    “I had learned that you should always shout louder than your aggressor.”
    ― Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
    tags: humor, young_adult
    140 likes

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    Haruki Murakami
    “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
    tags: books, thought
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    Haruki Murakami
    “So that's how we live our lives. No matter how deep and fatal the loss, no matter how important the thing that's stolen from us--that's snatched right out of our hands--even if we are left completely changed, with only the outer layer of skin from before, we continue to play out our lives this way, in silence. We draw ever nearer to the end of our allotted span of time, bidding it farewell as it trails off behind. Repeating, often adroitly, the endless deeds of the everyday. Leaving behind a feeling of immeasurable emptiness.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
    tags: loss
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    Miriam Toews
    “Perhaps depression is caused by asking oneself too many unanswerable questions.”
    ― Miriam Toews, Swing Low
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    Miriam Toews
    “Things shouldn't hinge on so very little. Sneeze and you're highway carnage. Remove one tiny stone and you're an avalanche statistic. But I guess if you can die without ever understanding how it happened then you can also live without a complete understanding of how. And in a way that's kind of relaxing.”
    ― Miriam Toews, A Complicated Kindness
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    Haruki Murakami
    “Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
    tags: memories
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    Diana Wynne Jones
    “She was remorseless, but she lacked method.”
    ― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle
    tags: castle, howl-s, moving
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    Diana Wynne Jones
    “My shining dishonesty will be the salvation of me.”
    ― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle
    tags: humor, humour, lying, salvation
    367 likes

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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
    tags: hell, love, suffering
    5670 likes

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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
    tags: happiness, man, trouble
    3334 likes

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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
    tags: hell, individualism, irony, selfishness, tea
    3734 likes



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