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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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    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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    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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    Mark Twain
    “In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: bookroom, books, libraries, wisdom
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    Charles William Eliot
    “Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
    ― Charles W. Eliot
    tags: books, friends, reading, teachers
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    Walt Disney Company
    “There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.”
    ― Walt Disney
    tags: books
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    Jessamyn West
    “Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.”
    ― Jessamyn West
    tags: books, on-fiction, reality, truth
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    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: charles-bayard-mitchell
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    J.K. Rowling
    “I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
    tags: mischief
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    tags: live-death-love
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: friendship, lack-of-friendship, lack-of-love, love, marriage, unhappy-marriage
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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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    J.M. Barrie
    “To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
    ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
    tags: adventure, love
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    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
    tags: love
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    Milan Kundera
    “Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.”
    ― Milan Kundera
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    John Henry Newman
    “I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people.”
    ― John Henry Newman
    tags: god, inspirational, love
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    Mary Zimmerman
    “Let me die the moment my love dies.
    Let me not outlive my own capacity to love.
    Let me die still loving, and so, never die.”
    ― Mary Zimmerman, Metamorphoses
    tags: die, love
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
    tags: essential, happiness, love
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    Mother Teresa
    “The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: paraphrased
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    Tim Farrington
    “We are born to love as we are born to die, and between the heartbeats of those two great mysteries lies all the tangled undergrowth of our tiny lives. There is nowhere to go but through. And so we walk on, lost, and lost again, in the mapless wilderness of love.”
    ― Tim Farrington, The Monk Downstairs
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    Meister Eckhart
    “The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.”
    ― Meister Eckhart, Sermons of Meister Eckhart
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    François Fénelon
    “The history of the world suggests that without love of God there is little likelihood of a love for man that does not become corrupt.”
    ― Francois Fenelon
    tags: love
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    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
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  • #24
    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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    Pablo Neruda
    “I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
    ― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
    tags: love, poetry
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    Bertrand Russell
    “Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”
    ― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
    tags: happiness, love
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    Bertrand Russell
    “To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3-parts dead.”
    ― Bertrand Russell
    tags: life, love
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    Virginia Woolf
    “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: food, love
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    Willa Cather
    “Where there is great love, there are always miracles.”
    ― Willa Cather
    tags: love
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    André Gide
    “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
    ― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves
    tags: life, love
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