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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”
    ― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
    tags: existence, truth
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    John Lennon
    “Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.”
    ― John Lennon
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Orlando naturally loved solitary places, vast views, and to feel himself for ever and ever and ever alone.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Orlando
    tags: solitude
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Orlando
    tags: sadness
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Orlando
    tags: love, poetry, women
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    Virginia Woolf
    “All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Orlando
    tags: obsession
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    Ben Okri
    “This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.”
    ― Ben Okri, The Famished Road
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    Russell Banks
    “Go, my book, and help destroy the world as it is.”
    ― Russell Banks, Continental Drift
    tags: books
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    Lois Lowry
    “The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.”
    ― Lois Lowry, The Giver
    tags: loneliness, memories, pain, share
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    Lois Lowry
    “The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.”
    ― Lois Lowry, The Giver
    tags: dystopia, future, life, sci-fi, the-giver, utopia
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    Lois Lowry
    “Even trained for years as they all had been in precision of language, what words could you use which would give another the experience of sunshine?”
    ― Lois Lowry, The Giver
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    Lois Lowry
    “You may lie.”
    ― Lois Lowry, The Giver
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    Lois Lowry
    “What if they were allowed to choose their own mate? And chose wrong?”
    ― Lois Lowry, The Giver
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    Lois Lowry
    “When people have the freedom to choose, they choose wrong, every single time.”
    ― Lois Lowry, The Giver
    tags: humanity
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    Nan Goldin
    “I used to think that I could never lose anyone if I photographed them enough. In fact, my pictures show me how much I’ve lost.”
    ― Nan Goldin
    tags: art, loss, lost-love, photography
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    Lewis Carroll
    “It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
    ― Lewis Carroll
    tags: alice, humor, inspirational, philosophy-of-life, psychological, yesterday
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    Virginia Woolf
    “What does the brain matter compared with the heart?”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
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    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    Maya Angelou
    “We need much less than we think we need.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: contentment
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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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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “My life story is the story of everyone I've ever met.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
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    Jay Asher
    “You don’t know what goes on in anyone’s life but your own. And when you mess with one part of a person’s life, you’re not messing with just that part. Unfortunately, you can’t be that precise and selective. When you mess with one part of a person’s life, you’re messing with their entire life. Everything. . . affects everything.”
    ― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why
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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle
    tags: books, children, difficult, grown-ups, write, writers, writing
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    C.S. Lewis
    “A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, children-s-books, reading
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
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    William Faulkner
    “Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
    Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
    ― William Faulkner
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    Anna Quindlen
    “Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”
    ― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life
    tags: books, journey, reading, travel
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    Melina Marchetta
    “Maybe she'd always been there. Maybe strangers enter your heart first and then you spent the rest of your life searching for them. ”
    ― Melina Marchetta, The Piper's Son
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    Melina Marchetta
    “You don't die. You just... get really angry and then after you're angry you hurt a lot and then the best thing is that one day you remember something she said or did and you laugh instead of crying.”
    ― Melina Marchetta, Looking for Alibrandi
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    Melina Marchetta
    “Be prepared for the worst, my love, for it lives next door to the best.”
    ― Melina Marchetta, Finnikin of the Rock
    tags: finnikin-of-the-rock
    543 likes



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