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    Samuel Beckett
    “The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.”
    ― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
    tags: crying, equilibrium, inspirational, tears
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    Samuel Beckett
    “Estragon: People are bloody ignorant apes.”
    ― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
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    Emily Dickinson
    “Hope is the thing with feathers
    That perches in the soul
    And sings the tune without the words
    And never stops at all.”
    ― Emily Dickinson
    tags: feathers, hope, inspirational, souls
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    Emily Dickinson
    “That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.”
    ― Emily Dickinson
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    Emily Dickinson
    “Forever is composed of nows.”
    ― Emily Dickinson
    tags: carpe-diem, live-in-the-moment
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    Emily Dickinson
    “A Word is Dead

    A word is dead
    When it is said,
    Some say.

    I say it just
    Begins to live
    That day.”
    ― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
    tags: poetry, words
    776 likes

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    Emily Dickinson
    “Truth is so rare, it is delightful to tell it.”
    ― Emily Dickinson
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    Emily Dickinson
    “The dearest ones of time, the strongest friends of the soul--BOOKS.”
    ― Emily Dickinson
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  • #10
    Emily Dickinson
    “That I shall love always,
    I argue thee
    that love is life,
    and life hath immortality”
    ― Emily Dickinson
    tags: life, love
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  • #11
    Kahlil Gibran
    “Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,
    That we may record our emptiness.”
    ― Kahlil Gibran
    tags: poetry, wisdom
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    Kahlil Gibran
    “I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.”
    ― Khalil Gibran
    tags: wisdom
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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
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
    tags: independent-thought, self-determination, self-expression
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    José Saramago
    “Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.”
    ― José Saramago, Blindness
    tags: self-determination, soul
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    José Saramago
    “We use words to understand each other and even, sometimes, to find each other.”
    ― José Saramago
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    José Saramago
    “Men are all the same, they think that because they came out of the belly of a woman they know all there is to know about women.”
    ― José Saramago
    tags: humor
    216 likes

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    José Saramago
    “Reading is probably another way of being in a place.”
    ― José Saramago, El hombre duplicado
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  • #19
    José Saramago
    “Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts”
    ― Jose Saramago
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    José Saramago
    “A tree weeps when cut down, a dog howls when beaten, but a man matures when offended.”
    ― José Saramago
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    José Saramago
    “Liking is probably the best form of ownership, and ownership the worst form of liking.”
    ― José Saramago, The Tale of the Unknown Island
    tags: appreciation, liking, ownership
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  • #22
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
    tags: emphasis, exclamation-points, style, writing
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  • #23
    Jorge Luis Borges
    “Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.”
    ― Jorge Luis Borges
    tags: pride, reading, writers
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    Margaret Atwood
    “A word after a word after a word is power.”
    ― Margaret Atwood
    tags: reading, writing
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  • #25
    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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    Oscar Wilde
    “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: books, morality, reading
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    Emily Dickinson
    “There is no Frigate like a Book
    To take us Lands away
    Nor any Coursers like a Page
    Of prancing Poetry –
    This Traverse may the poorest take
    Without oppress of Toll –
    How frugal is the Chariot
    That bears a Human soul.”
    ― Emily Dickinson, Selected Poems
    tags: literature, poetry, words
    515 likes

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  • #28
    John Keats
    “I have good reason to be content,
    for thank God I can read and
    perhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths.”
    ― John Keats
    tags: reading, shakespeare
    443 likes

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  • #29
    Stéphane Mallarmé
    “Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book.”
    ― Stéphane Mallarmé
    tags: books, reading
    2194 likes

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  • #30
    Germaine Greer
    “A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.”
    ― Germaine Greer
    tags: innocence, libraries, reading, sexuality, virginity
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  • #31
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “There is creative reading as well as creative writing.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: creativity, enlightenment, learning, reading, writing
    576 likes



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