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#1

“The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.”
― Daniel Defoe

tags: diamond, soul

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#2

“Memory is more indelible than ink.”
― Anita Loos

tags: ink, memory

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#3

“Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

tags: misattributed-kurt-cobain

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#4

“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
― William Faulkner

tags: courage, determination, hope, risk

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#5

“I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

tags: truth

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#6

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

tags: writing

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#7

“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”
― Nora Ephron

tags: reading

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#8

“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
― Helen Keller

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#9

“When the bird of the heart begins to sing, too often will reason stop up her ears.”
― Hans Christian Andersen

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#10

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
― Charles M. Schulz

tags: chocolate, food, humor

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#11

“The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you.”
― Amy Bloom, Away

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#12

“People change and forget to tell each other.”
― Lillian Hellman

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#13

“To him the stars seemed like so many musical notes affixed to the sky, just waiting for somebody to unfasten them.”
― Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

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#14

“When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Fledgling

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#15

“If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up.”
― Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

tags: love, music

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#16

“Isn't it strange how life won't flow, like a river, but moves in jumps, as if it were held back by locks that are opened now and then to let it jump forwards in a kind of flood?”
― Anita Desai

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#17

“We have eyes, and we're looking at stuff all the time, all day long. And I just think that whatever our eyes touch should be beautiful, tasteful, appealing, and important.”
― Eric Carle

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#18

“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

tags: life

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#19

“You're only young once, they say, but doesn't it go on for a long time? More years than you can bear.”
― Hilary Mantel, An Experiment in Love

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#20

“Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.”
― Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

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#21

“Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.”
― Jean de La Fontaine

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#22

“I have to see a thing a thousand times before I see it once.”
― Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again

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#23

“Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything's possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time.”
― Marie Lu, Legend

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#24

“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
― Pablo Neruda, Love: Ten Poems

tags: love

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#25

“A tiger doesn't proclaim his tigritude, he pounces”
― Wole Soyinka

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#26

“Ultimately, your theme will find you. You don't have to go looking for it.”
― Richard Russo

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#27

“Talk between women friends is always therapy...”
― Jayne Anne Phillips

tags: friendship

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#28

“I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

tags: happiness, pride

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#29

“The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.”
― Jack London, White Fang

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#30

“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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