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    J.K. Rowling
    “Killing is not so easy as the innocent believe.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
    tags: death, dumbledore, harry-potter, killing
    964 likes

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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “I was too young to know how to love her.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
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    Andrew Kaufman
    “- the only difference between a happy ending and a sad ending is where you decide the story ends.”
    ― Andrew Kaufman, The Waterproof Bible
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    Andrew Kaufman
    “Why do bad things happen to good people?'

    'Because it makes a good story.”
    ― Andrew Kaufman, The Waterproof Bible
    tags: life, life-lessons, stories, stories-life
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    Etgar Keret
    “For three months,
    a person sits and looks at you,
    imagining a kiss.”
    ― Etgar Keret
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    Etgar Keret
    “There are two kinds of people, those who like to sleep next to the wall, and those who like to sleep next to the people who push them off the bed.”
    ― Etgar Keret, The Bus Driver Who Wanted to be God and Other Stories
    tags: dichotomy
    120 likes

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    Etgar Keret
    “If you want to learn how to be happy, you have to know what is sadness first.”
    ― Etgar Keret, Missing Kissinger
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    Etgar Keret
    “My wife says I'd get philosophical with a lamp post if I thought the thing had ears.”
    ― Etgar Keret
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  • #9
    “Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic.”
    ― Jean Sibelius
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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
    177273 likes

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  • #11
    “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
    ― Marthe Troly-Curtin, Phrynette Married
    tags: happiness, misattributed-john-lennon, procrastination, time
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    William Faulkner
    “The past is never dead. It's not even past.”
    ― William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun
    tags: past, time
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    Tracy K. Smith
    “sometimes, what i see is a library in a rural community.
    all the tall shelves in the big open room. and the pencils
    in a cup at circulation, gnawed on by the entire population.

    the books have lived here all along, belonging
    for weeks at a time to one or another in the brief sequence
    of family names, speaking (at night mostly) to a face,

    a pair of eyes. the most remarkable lies.”
    ― Tracy K. Smith, Life on Mars: Poems
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
    tags: reason, time
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    Lao Tzu
    “Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time,' is like saying, 'I don't want to.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: time
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  • #16
    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: inspirational, love
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    Tracy K. Smith
    “Old loves turn up in dreams, still livid at every slight.”
    ― Tracy K. Smith, Life on Mars: Poems
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    Pablo Neruda
    “I want
    To do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.”
    ― Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
    tags: love
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    Pablo Neruda
    “Tonight I can write the saddest lines
    I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.”
    ― Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
    tags: love, sadness
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    Pablo Neruda
    “I am no longer in love with her, that's certain, but maybe I love her. Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
    ― Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
    tags: love, poetry
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    Pablo Neruda
    “And let me talk to you with your silence
    that is bright as a lamp, simple as a ring.
    You are like the night, with its stillness and constellations.
    Your silence is that of a star, as remote and candid.”
    ― Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
    tags: constellations, distance, longing, love, night, poetry, silence, stars
    8 likes

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    Rupi Kaur
    “If I'm not the love of your life
    I'll be the greatest loss instead”
    ― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers
    tags: change, loss, love, value
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    Rupi Kaur
    “i could be anything in the world but i wanted to be his”
    ― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers
    tags: the-sun-and-her-flowers
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    Rupi Kaur
    “i spent the entire night casting spells to bring you back”
    ― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers
    tags: the-sun-and-her-flowers
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    Donna Tartt
    “Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”
    ― Donna Tartt, The Secret History
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    Donna Tartt
    “Love doesn't conquer everything. And whoever thinks it does is a fool.”
    ― Donna Tartt, The Secret History
    578 likes

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    Lana Del Rey
    “The world needs poetry now more than ever. It's the only thing that can keep music from copying itself and sounding the same.”
    ― Lana Del Rey
    tags: lana-del-rey, life, music, poetry, queen
    130 likes

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    Bryan Lee O'Malley
    “What kind of idiot would knowingly date a girl named Knives?”
    ― Bryan Lee O'Malley, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
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    Bryan Lee O'Malley
    “Okay, this might sound vague, but do you know this one girl with hair like this?”
    ― Bryan Lee O'Malley, Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life
    tags: humor
    58 likes

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    Ruth Rendell
    “Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”
    ― Ruth Rendell, A Judgement in Stone
    tags: books, escapism, life, reading
    247 likes



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