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    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
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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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    Helen Keller
    “When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
    ― Helen Keller
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    Christopher Morley
    “There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.”
    ― Christopher Morley, Pipefuls
    tags: bibliophilia, books
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    François Mauriac
    “If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.”
    ― Francois Mauriac
    tags: books, literacy, reading
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    Carl Sandburg
    “Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.”
    ― Carl Sandburg
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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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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir , La vieillesse
    tags: ageing, inifinity, life, old-age
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    Gertrude Stein
    “It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.”
    ― Gertrude Stein
    tags: genius, humor
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    Lucille Clifton
    “You might as well answer the door, my child,
    the truth is furiously knocking.”
    ― Lucille Clifton, Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980
    tags: inspirational
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    Helen Fielding
    “It struck me as pretty ridiculous to be called Mr. Darcy and to stand on your own looking snooty at a party. It's like being called Heathcliff and insisting on spending the entire evening in the garden, shouting "Cathy" and banging your head against a tree.”
    ― Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary
    tags: heathcliff, humour, mr-darcy, snooty, wuthering-heights
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
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    Lisa Scottoline
    “I’ve read that one out of twenty-four people is a sociopath, and if you ask me, the other twenty-three of you should be worried.”
    ― Lisa Scottoline, Every Fifteen Minutes
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    Lisa Scottoline
    “I'm a sociopath. I look normal, but I'm not. I'm smarter, better, and freer, because I'm not bound by rules, law, emotion or regard for you.”
    ― Lisa Scottoline, Every Fifteen Minutes
    tags: every-fifteen-minutes, lisa-scottoline
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    Stephen Vincent Benét
    “There is a wilderness we walk alone
    However well-companioned”
    ― Stephen Vincent Benét, Western Star
    tags: life-s-journey, poetry-quotes, solitude
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on. (Montresor)”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado
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    Flannery O'Connor
    “I write to discover what I know.”
    ― Flannery O'Connor
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    Ai Qing
    “Without movement there is no Life...We should use our energy to the fullest.”
    ― Ai Qing
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.”
    ― Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
    tags: grudges
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    William Faulkner
    “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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    Ezra Pound
    “There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight”
    ― Ezra Pound
    tags: books
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    Art Spiegelman
    “To die, it's easy. But you have to struggle for life.”
    ― Art Spiegelman, Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
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    C.S. Lewis
    “I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books-reading
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Honestly, if you were any slower, you’d be going backward.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
    tags: draco-malfoy, stupidity
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    Thomas Mann
    “A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
    ― Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades
    tags: authors, creative-process, struggle, writers, writing
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    Hans Christian Andersen
    “When the bird of the heart begins to sing, too often will reason stop up her ears.”
    ― Hans Christian Andersen
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    Cassandra Clare
    “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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    Amy Carmichael
    “We profess to be strangers and pilgrims, seeking after a country of our own, yet we settle down in the most un-stranger-like fashion, exactly as if we were quite at home and meant to stay as long as we could. I don't wonder apostolic miracles have died. Apostolic living certainly has.”
    ― Amy Carmichael
    tags: christianity, life
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    Amy Carmichael
    “The word comfort is from two Latin words meaning “with” and “strong” – He is with us to make us strong. Comfort is not soft, weakening commiseration; it is true, strengthening love.”
    ― Amy Carmichael, Kohila : the shaping of an Indian nurse
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    Myles Horton
    “When people criticize me for not having any respect for existing structures and institutions, I protest. I say I give institutions and structures and traditions all the respect that I think they deserve. That's usually mighty little, but there are things that I do respect. They have to earn that respect. They have to earn it by serving people. They don't earn it just by age or legality or tradition.”
    ― Myles Horton, We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change
    tags: institutions, respect, sociology, tradition
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