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#1

“My course is set for an uncharted sea.”
― Dante Alighieri

#2

“You'd rather make up a fantasy version of somebody in your head than be with a real person.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

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#3

“So many things become beautiful when you really look.”
― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

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#4

“A good book is an event in my life.”
― Stendhal, The Red and the Black

tags: books, literature, reading

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#5

“You're something between a dream and a miracle.”
― Elizabeth Barrett Browning

tags: dream

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#6

“We never know the quality of someone else's life, though we seldom resist the temptation to assume and pass judgement.”
― Tami Hoag, Dark Horse

tags: inspirational

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#7

“My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.”
― Patricia Highsmith

tags: conversations, distractions, imagination, quiet, solitude

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#8

“My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

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#9

“Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.”
― Edward Abbey

tags: truth

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#10

“I am not interested in being original. I am interested in being true.”
― Agostinho da Silva

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#11

“Our finger prints don't fade from the lives we touch.”
― judy blume

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#12

“It’s lovely loving, isn’t it? In fact, I find it almost better, because being loved sometimes embarrasses me, but loving is a gift.”
― Sheila Hancock

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#13

“Finally, she mused that human existence is as brief as the life of autumn grass, so what was there to fear from taking chances with your life?”
― Mo Yan, Red Sorghum

tags: existence

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#14

“We are made of stardust; why not take a few moments to look up at the family album?”
― Natalie Angier, The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science

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#15

“I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.”
― Matt Groening

tags: family, humor, language, satire, simpsons, social-commentary

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#16

“Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.”
― W.E.B. DuBois

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#17

“We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

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#18

“Heaven would never be heaven without you.”
― Richard Matheson, What Dreams May Come

tags: heaven, love

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#19

“Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.”
― Amy Tan, The Kitchen God's Wife

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#20

“Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly each day.”
― William Allingham

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#21

“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

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#22

“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.”
― Annie Dillard, The Living

tags: books, literature, reading, words

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#23

“Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.”
― Roberto Bolaño, 2666

tags: books, reading

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#24

“A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.”
― Francesco Petrarch

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#25

“In times of storm and tempest, of indecision and desolation, a book already known and loved makes better reading than something new and untried ... nothing is so warming and companionable.”
― Elizabeth Goudge

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#26

“How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.”
― Gore Vidal, Julian

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#27

“I never tell anyone exactly how clever I am. They would be too scared.”
― Eoin Colfer, The Eternity Code

tags: mysterious

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#28

“May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.”
― George Carlin

tags: benediction, evil, goodwill, humor, inspirational, wishes

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#29

“She thought of the library, so shining white and new; the rows and rows of unread books; the bliss of unhurried sojourns there and of going out to a restaurant, alone, to eat.”
― Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown

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#30

“The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.”
― Stanley Fish

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