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#1

“Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.”
― John Steinbeck

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#2

“The beginning is always today.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft

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#3

“If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”
― Rumi

tags: inspirational

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#4

“Reality is just a dream dreamed by everyone”
― Fola, The Seed

tags: dream, inspirational, reality

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#5

“What is far is very close, and what is close is very far”
― Fola, The Seed

tags: inspirational, time

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#6

“The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.”
― Bertolt Brecht

tags: abuse, history, humanity, kiss, life, mankind, scars, wounds

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#7

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot

tags: inspirational, misattributed, source-unknown

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#8

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
― Socrates

tags: inspiration, truth, wisdom

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#9

“For you, a thousand times over”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

7851 likes

#10

“What came next was a new experience for for both the fish and me”
― Tahir Shah, Sorcerer's Apprentice

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#11

“It’s interesting how you can know someone for a long time, and then one day you just see them in this whole different way.”
― Susane Colasanti, Something Like Fate

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#12

“There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

tags: books, censorship

2788 likes

#13

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: encouragement, gandalf

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#14

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings

tags: activism, life, optimism, philosophy, world

13377 likes

#15

“It's only words... unless they're true.”
― David Mamet

tags: aphorism, language, truth

112 likes

#16

“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
― William Styron, Conversations with William Styron

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#17

“It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

3699 likes

#18

“So long as I have questions to which there are no answers, I shall go on writing.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

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#19

“Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story.”
― Daphne du Maurier

tags: writing

2555 likes

#20

“Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire.”
― Slavoj Žižek

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#21

“ உலகம் முழுவதும் வீடுகள் இருக்கின்றன. எல்லா வீடுகளிலும் ஜன்னல்கள் இருக்கின்றன. எல்லா ஜன்னலுக்கு பின்னும் ஒரு சிறுவனோ சிறுமியோ உலகை வியப்பு கலையாமல் பார்த்து கொண்டேயிருக்கிறார்கள் ” - (ஜன்னல் வழியான உலகு)”
― S.Ramakrishnan

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#22

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books

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#23

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

151403 likes

#24

“When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
― Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

tags: books

8706 likes

#25

“I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

tags: dreaming, dreams

4148 likes

#26

“Things can never be as they were. It's astonishing how we comment on change, as if change is something remarkable. On the contrary, not to change is unnatural, against nature.”
― Shashi Deshpande, That Long Silence

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#27

“You belong neither to God nor the state nor me. You belong to yourself and no one else.”
― Oriana Fallaci, Letter to a Child Never Born

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#28

“I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

1331 likes

#29

“The love that lasts the longest is the love that is never returned”
― W. Somerset Maugham

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#30

“Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

tags: biography, opening-lines

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