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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    ― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
    tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: paraphrased, strength
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    Sarah Dessen
    “There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”
    ― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
    tags: love
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    George Eliot
    “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
    ― George Eliot
    tags: inspirational, misattributed, source-unknown
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    Maya Angelou
    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
    ― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing
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    Anaïs Nin
    “We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
    ― Anaïs Nin
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    Charles M. Schulz
    “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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    Walter M. Miller Jr.
    “You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”
    ― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz
    tags: body-soul, misattributed-to-c-s-lewis
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
    tags: truth
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    Oscar Wilde
    “You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: education, fashion
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: love, ordinary, people
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am not young enough to know everything.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: age
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  • #17
    Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious
    “Tell me, what is it you plan to do
    with your one wild and precious life?”
    ― Mary Oliver
    tags: poetry
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    Mary Oliver
    “Instructions for living a life.
    Pay attention.
    Be astonished.
    Tell about it.”
    ― Mary Oliver
    tags: life-lessons
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    Mary Oliver
    “Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.”
    ― Mary Oliver
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    Mary Oliver
    “I tell you this
    to break your heart,
    by which I mean only
    that it break open and never close again
    to the rest of the world.”
    ― Mary Oliver, New and Selected Poems, Vol. 2
    tags: lead
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    Mary Oliver
    “The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.”
    ― Mary Oliver
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    Mary Oliver
    “Still, what I want in my life
    is to be willing
    to be dazzled—
    to cast aside the weight of facts

    and maybe even
    to float a little
    above this difficult world.”
    ― Mary Oliver
    tags: poetry
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    Adrienne Rich
    “There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.”
    ― Adrienne Rich
    tags: inspirational
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    Adrienne Rich
    “You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.”
    ― Adrienne Rich
    tags: on-writing, reading
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    Adrienne Rich
    “No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees,
    sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air,
    dappled with scars, still exuberantly budding,
    our animal passion rooted in the city.”
    ― Adrienne Rich, The Dream of a Common Language
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    Adrienne Rich
    “Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.”
    ― Adrienne Rich
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    Adrienne Rich
    “[Poetry] is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.”
    ― Adrienne Rich, What is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics
    tags: poetry
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    Adrienne Rich
    “A thinking woman sleeps with monsters
    that beak which grips her, she becomes.”
    ― Adrienne Rich
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  • #29
    Adrienne Rich
    “I choose to love this time for once
    with all my intelligence

    -from "Splittings”
    ― Adrienne Rich, The Dream of a Common Language
    tags: poetry
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  • #30
    Adrienne Rich
    “The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.”
    ― Adrienne Rich
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