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    Haruki Murakami
    “But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very air I breathe, would feel like long, sharp needles. The pages of a book in my hands would take on the threatening metallic gleam of razor blades. I could hear the roots of loneliness creeping through me when the world was hushed at four o'clock in the morning.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
    tags: loneliness
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    Haruki Murakami
    “I realize full well how hard it must be to go on living alone in a place from which someone has left you, but there is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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    Haruki Murakami
    “What do you think? I'm not a starfish or a pepper tree. I'm a living, breathing human being. Of course I've been in love.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
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    Haruki Murakami
    “It's hard to tell the difference between sea and sky, between voyager and sea. Between reality and the workings of the heart.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already?”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
    tags: living-life-to-the-fullest, the-present
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed with sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see? You hang around cafes.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
    tags: europe, expatriate, sex
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: demographics
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    Henry Ford
    “Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.”
    ― Henry Ford
    tags: thinking
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    Oscar Wilde
    “It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: books, reading
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: inspirational, life, yourself
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: books, children
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
    tags: on-writing
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
    tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton
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    Albert Einstein
    “If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, simplicity, understand
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    Albert Einstein
    “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: life, simile
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: lies, lying, trust
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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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    Neil Gaiman
    “I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
    tags: dying, facts, fame, knowing, love, poverty, reality, school, teach, wealth
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    Albert Einstein
    “When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: humor
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: mothers
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Whatever you are, be a good one.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: inspirational
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: attributed-no-source, books
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    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life
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    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    ― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
    tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
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    Groucho Marx
    “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: books, humor, reading, television
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    C.S. Lewis
    “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I know myself," he cried, "but that is all.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
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    Mohsin Hamid
    “You're a watchful guy. you know where that comes from?" I shook my head. "It comes from feeling out of place," he said. "Believe me. I know.”
    ― Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist
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    Groucho Marx
    “I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.”
    ― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
    tags: carpe-diem, happiness, live-in-the-moment, self-determination
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    Bruce Lee
    “I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.”
    ― Bruce Lee
    tags: expectations, individuality, peer-pressure, wisdom
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