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    W.B. Yeats
    “Faeries, come take me out of this dull world,
    For I would ride with you upon the wind,
    Run on the top of the dishevelled tide,
    And dance upon the mountains like a flame.”
    ― William Butler Yeats, The Land of Heart's Desire
    tags: dance, faeries, mountains, wind, world
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: humor, seriousness
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    Hiromu Arakawa
    “Nothing's perfect, the world's not perfect. But it's there for us, trying the best it can; that's what makes it so damn beautiful.”
    ― Hiromu Arakawa, Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 1
    tags: aesthetics, flaws, inspirational
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: america, discovery
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    Victor Hugo
    “The women laughed and wept; the crowd stamped their feet enthusiastically, for at that moment Quasimodo was really beautiful. He was handsome — this orphan, this foundling, this outcast.”
    ― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame
    tags: beauty, orphans
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    Rabindranath Tagore
    “The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers.”
    ― Rabindranath Tagore
    tags: joy, rhythm, stream-of-life
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    Voltaire
    “Let us cultivate our garden.”
    ― Voltaire, Candide
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    Rabindranath Tagore
    “We live in the world when we love it.”
    ― Rabindranath Tagore
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    William Makepeace Thackeray
    “The wicked are wicked, no doubt, and they go astray and they fall, and they come by their deserts; but who can tell the mischief which the very virtuous do?”
    ― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair
    tags: fair, satire, vanity
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    William Makepeace Thackeray
    “Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.”
    ― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair
    tags: kindness
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    Margaret Mitchell
    “Sir,"she said,"you are no gentleman!"

    An apt observation,"he answered airily."And, you, Miss, are no lady.”
    ― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
    tags: banter
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    Gustave Flaubert
    “What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind beating on the windows and the lamp burning bright...Haven't you ever happened to come across in a book some vague notion that you've had, some obscure idea that returns from afar and that seems to express completely your most subtle feelings?”
    ― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
    tags: book, reading
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    Gustave Flaubert
    “I'm absolutely removed from the world at such times...The hours go by without my knowing it. Sitting there I'm wandering in countries I can see every detail of - I'm playing a role in the story I'm reading. I actually feel I'm the characters - I live and breath with them.”
    ― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
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    Margaret Mitchell
    “Perhaps - I want the old days back again and they'll never come back, and I am haunted by the memory of them and of the world falling about my ears. ”
    ― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
    tags: life
    671 likes

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    Victor Hugo
    “Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.”
    ― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame
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    Gustave Flaubert
    “One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.”
    ― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism, self-awareness, self-determination, women
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, ideal-woman, identity, image, independence, integrity, love, men, realism, romance, self-awareness, self-determination, women
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    Thomas Hardy
    “This hobble of being alive is rather serious, don’t you think so?”
    ― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
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    Thomas Hardy
    “Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.”
    ― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
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    William Makepeace Thackeray
    “A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry WHOM SHE LIKES.”
    ― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair
    tags: marriage
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    William Makepeace Thackeray
    “When one fib becomes due as it were, you must forge another to take up the old acceptance; and so the stock of your lies in circulation inevitably multiplies, and the danger of detection increases every day.”
    ― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair
    tags: fibbing, lies
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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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    S.E. Hinton
    “Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold . . .” The pillow seemed to sink a little, and Johnny died.”
    ― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders
    tags: benediction, johnny-cade, ponyboy-curtis, ralph-macchio
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  • #25
    If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use
    “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: books, reading
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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
    “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: books, morality, reading
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: experience-mistakes-wisdom
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi, All Men Are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections
    tags: forgiveness, strength, weakness
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  • #30
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: forgiveness
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