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#1

“A good book is an event in my life.”
― Stendhal, The Red and the Black

tags: books, literature, reading

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#2

“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”
― Gustave Flaubert

tags: tourism, travel

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#3

“Quand on est convaincu d'une chose, elle devient la réalité, notre
réalité.”
― Laurent Gounelle, L'homme qui voulait être heureux

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#4

“Plus on évolue dans sa vie, plus on se débarrasse des croyances qui
nous limitent, et plus on a de choix. Et le choix, c'est la liberté.”
― Laurent Gounelle, L'homme qui voulait être heureux

tags: inspirational-quotes

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#5

“A novel is a mirror walking along a main road.”
― Stendhal, The Red and the Black

tags: writing

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#6

“Our true passions are selfish.”
― Stendhal, The Red and the Black

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#7

“Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.”
― Stendhal

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#8

“All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.”
― Stendhal

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#9

“A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.”
― Stendhal

tags: love

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#10

“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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#11

“A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.”
― Charles Baudelaire

tags: books, garden, reading

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#12

“Remembering is only a new form of suffering.”
― Charles Baudelaire

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#13

“Even when she walks one would believe that she dances.”
― Charles Baudelaire

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#14

“He who looks through an open window sees fewer things than he who looks through a closed window.”
― Charles Baudelaire

tags: vision

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#15

“I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.”
― stendhal

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#16

“If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us”
― Stendhal

tags: love

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#17

“Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.”
― Stendhal

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#18

“There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.”
― Stendhal, Love

tags: beauty, happiness

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#19

“Love born in the brain is more spirited, doubtless, than true love, but it has only flashes of enthusiasm; it knows itself too well, it criticizes itself incessantly; so far from banishing thought, it is itself reared only upon a structure of thought.”
― Stendhal, The Red and the Black

tags: love, passion, psychology, thought

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#20

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing

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#21

“Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”
― J. D. Salinger

tags: salinger, stories

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#22

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard

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#23

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

tags: dreaming, dreams

4148 likes

#24

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor

51595 likes

#25

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: love

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#26

“You're going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it's always their actions you should judge them by. It's actions, not words, that matter.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Rescue

tags: friends, judgement

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#27

“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

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#28

“When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

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#29

“All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.”
― John Steinbeck

tags: conflict, politics, war

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#30

“Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doing it."

[Thoughts from Places: The Tour, Nerdfighteria Wiki, January 17, 2012]”
― John Green

tags: alone, creative-process, eye-contact, introverts, profession, story, storytelling, writing

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