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    Leo Tolstoy
    “I think... if it is true that
    there are as many minds as there
    are heads, then there are as many
    kinds of love as there are hearts.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: care, diversity, heart, individuality, love, mind, seduction, soul
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: love, respect
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    Charles Dickens
    “In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.”
    ― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
    tags: cowardice, morality, pip
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    Aldo Leopold
    “Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching- even when doing the wrong thing is legal.”
    ― Aldo Leopold
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    Oscar Wilde
    “With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?”
    ― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
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    Jane Austen
    “What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “Isn't it pretty to think so.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
    tags: denial, self-awareness
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
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    Kahlil Gibran
    “To belittle, you have to be little.”
    ― Kahill Gibran, The Prophet
    tags: kindness
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart—hearts are made to be broken—but that it turns one’s heart to stone.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?”
    ― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
    tags: books, reading, truth
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    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
    tags: love
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    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “Memories are worse than bullets.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
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    William Golding
    “Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.”
    ― William Golding, Lord of the Flies
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    Lois Lowry
    “Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none”
    ― Lois Lowry, Gathering Blue
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    Lois Lowry
    “The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.”
    ― Lois Lowry, The Giver
    tags: loneliness, memories, pain, share
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Not all those who wander are lost.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: bilbo, journey, lost, quest, travel, wander
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    Markus Zusak
    “Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
    tags: heart, mortality
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    William Goldman
    “Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.”
    ― William Goldman, The Princess Bride
    tags: buttercup, garden, heart, hidden-treasure, love, secret, the-princess-bride, walls, william-goldman
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    William Goldman
    “Life isn't fair, it's just fairer than death, that's all.”
    ― William Goldman, The Princess Bride
    tags: life
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    William Goldman
    “Who says life is fair, where is that written?”
    ― William Goldman, The Princess Bride
    tags: fair, life, unfair
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    William Goldman
    “Love is many things none of them logical.”
    ― William Goldman, The Princess Bride
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “If most of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
    tags: inspirational, the-hobbit
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    Douglas Adams
    “Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: humor, philosophy, science-fiction
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    Desmond Tutu
    “Don't raise your voice, improve your argument."

    [Address at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, Johannesburg, South Africa, 23 November 2004]”
    ― Desmond Tutu
    tags: argument, debate, discussion, persuasion, shouting
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    Tim O'Brien
    “War is hell, but that's not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and discovery and holiness and pity and despair and longing and love. War is nasty; war is fun. War is thrilling; war is drudgery. War makes you a man; war makes you dead.”
    ― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried
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    Tim O'Brien
    “But this too is true: stories can save us.”
    ― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried
    tags: the-things-they-carried, tim-obrien, vietnam-war
    207 likes



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