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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Ralph Ellison
    “When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.”
    ― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
    tags: freedom, identity, independence, self-awareness, self-discovery
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    Lisa Scottoline
    “How do you tell the psychiatrists from the patients in the hospital?
    The patients get better and leave.”
    ― Lisa Scottoline , Every Fifteen Minutes
    tags: humor, medicine
    496 likes

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    Daniel Defoe
    “The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.”
    ― Daniel Defoe
    tags: diamond, soul
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    Brian Jacques
    “Even the strongest and bravest must sometimes weep. It shows they have a great heart, one that can feel compassion for others.”
    ― Brian Jacques, Redwall
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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
    ― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein
    tags: change, human
    5390 likes

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    José Rizal
    “One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again.”
    ― Jose Rizal
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  • #8
    Eric Carle
    “We have eyes, and we're looking at stuff all the time, all day long. And I just think that whatever our eyes touch should be beautiful, tasteful, appealing, and important.”
    ― Eric Carle
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    Lev Grossman
    “If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.”
    ― Lev Grossman, The Magicians
    tags: life-truths, reality-check
    3245 likes

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    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”
    ― Robert Louis Stevenson
    tags: life
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    Giacomo Leopardi
    “The surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one's own knowledge is not to overstep them.”
    ― Giacomo Leopardi
    tags: knowledge
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    Katherine Boo
    “Much of what was said did not matter, and that much of what mattered could not be said.”
    ― Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
    tags: truth
    1984 likes

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    Astrid Lindgren
    “A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.”
    ― Astrid Lindgren
    tags: books, children, children-s-literature
    3114 likes

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    Shelby Foote
    “I abhor the idea of a perfect world. It would bore me to tears.”
    ― Shelby Foote
    tags: boredom, perfection, utopia
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    Shmuley Boteach
    “There is greatness in doing something you hate for the sake of someone you love.”
    ― Shmuley Boteach
    tags: relationships
    3382 likes

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    Saul Bellow
    “People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.”
    ― Saul Bellow
    tags: book-lovers, libraries, reading
    3616 likes

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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle
    tags: books, fire, star, universe
    4492 likes

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  • #18
    James Joyce
    “Shut your eyes and see.”
    ― James Joyce
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    Anzia Yezierska
    “When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts.”
    ― Anzia Yezierska
    1873 likes

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    James Burke
    “When you read a book, you hold another's mind in your hands.”
    ― James Burke
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  • #21
    Susan Sontag
    “I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.”
    ― Susan Sontag
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    Nicholson Baker
    “Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.”
    ― Nicholson Baker
    tags: books, inventions
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    Jorge Luis Borges
    “I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.”
    ― Jorge Luis Borges
    tags: books
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    Nicholas Sparks
    “How far would you go to keep the hope of love alive?”
    ― Nicholas Sparks, The Choice
    tags: hope, love, nicholas, nicholas-sparks, sparks, the-choice
    852 likes

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    Kenzaburō Ōe
    “The dead can survive as part of the lives of those that still live.”
    ― Kenzaburō Ōe, Hiroshima Notes
    tags: death
    1614 likes

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  • #26
    Chelsea Handler
    “Laugh loudly, laugh often, and most important, laugh at yourself.”
    ― Chelsea Handler, Lies That Chelsea Handler Told Me
    2056 likes

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  • #27
    John Updike
    “It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.”
    ― John Updike, My Father's Tears and Other Stories
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    Ellen Goodman
    “We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness. ”
    ― Ellen Goodman
    tags: forgiveness, gratefulness, love
    1810 likes

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  • #29
    Jodi Picoult
    “Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
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  • #30
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    “Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.”
    ― Edward Bulwer Lytton
    tags: music, power-of-music
    1590 likes



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