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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Alexandre Dumas
    “How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure.”
    ― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
    tags: escape, prison, prison-escape
    992 likes

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    Cassandra Clare
    “Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
    tags: books, literature, philosphy, poetry, reading
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    Shannon L. Alder
    “A true gentleman is one that apologizes anyways, even though he has not offended a lady intentionally. He is in a class all of his own because he knows the value of a woman's heart.”
    ― Shannon Alder
    tags: betrayal, break-ups, cheating, class, compassion, courtesy, gentleman, honor, ladies, leading-a-woman-on, love, manners, manning-up, men, mixed-signals, players, relationships, respect, respecting-others, respecting-women, true-gentlemen
    705 likes

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    Anaïs Nin
    “Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
    ― Anais Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
    tags: friendship
    5450 likes

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    Marlene Dietrich
    “I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.”
    ― Marlene Dietrich
    tags: quotes
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    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
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    John Green
    “Thomas Edison's last words were "It's very beautiful over there". I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful.”
    ― John Green, Looking for Alaska
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    Herman Melville
    “I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.”
    ― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
    tags: adventure, laughter
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    Stendhal
    “A good book is an event in my life.”
    ― Stendhal, The Red and the Black
    tags: books, literature, reading
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: creativity, self, self-improvement, words-of-wisdom
    528 likes

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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: great-gatsby
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    Walter Mosley
    “A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.”
    ― Walter Mosley, The Long Fall
    tags: reading
    2004 likes

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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: heart, importance, inspiration, secret, the-little-prince
    9972 likes

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    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    “To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.”
    ― Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus / Traeg
    tags: eloquence, humour, speech
    136 likes

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    Ray Bradbury
    “Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
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    Ray Bradbury
    “A book is a loaded gun.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
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    Richard Dawkins
    “The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.”
    ― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
    tags: bible, christianity, god, organized-religion, religion, yahweh
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    Alexandre Dumas
    “Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.”
    ― Alexandre Dumas
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    Alexandre Dumas
    “Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes. You must look into that storm and shout as you did in Rome. Do your worst, for I will do mine! Then the fates will know you as we know you”
    ― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
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    Alexandre Dumas
    “I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.”
    ― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
    tags: writing
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    Rafael Sabatini
    “He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.”
    ― Rafael Sabatini, Scaramouche
    tags: epitaph, first-sentence, great-first-lines, laughter, literary, merriment, opening-lines
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    Rafael Sabatini
    “But I like my madness. There is a thrill in it unknown to such sanity as yours. ~ Book 1, Chapter 9,”
    ― Rafael Sabatini, Scaramouche
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    Rafael Sabatini
    “...it is human nature, I suppose, to be futile and ridiculous.”
    ― Rafael Sabatini, Scaramouche
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    Alexandre Dumas
    “When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.”
    ― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
    tags: dreams, fantasy, life, living, pain, suffering
    1032 likes

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    Giacomo Casanova
    “Be the flame, not the moth.”
    ― Giacomo Casanova
    tags: passion, self-destruction
    2055 likes

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    Giacomo Casanova
    “I have loved women even to madness, but I have always loved liberty better.”
    ― Giacomo Casanova
    tags: freedom, love
    54 likes

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    Robert Benchley
    “Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.”
    ― Robert Benchley
    tags: bleeding, funny, humor, opera, stabbed
    1988 likes

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  • #29
    “Do you think the universe fights for souls to be together?
    Some things are too strange and strong to be coincidences.”
    ― Emery Allen
    tags: coincidence, fate, serendipity, strange, universe
    782 likes

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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “The way is shut. It was made by those who are Dead, and the Dead keep it, until the time comes. The way is shut.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
    283 likes



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