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    Leo Tolstoy
    “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina
    tags: family, first-sentence
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    J.K. Rowling
    “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: dreams, life
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    Jane Austen
    “Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: prejudice, pride, vanity
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    Stephenie Meyer
    “And so the lion fell in love with the lamb…" he murmured. I looked away, hiding my eyes as I thrilled to the word.
    "What a stupid lamb," I sighed.
    "What a sick, masochistic lion.”
    ― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
    tags: bella, edward, love
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    Stephenie Meyer
    “Fall down again, Bella?'
    No, Emmett, I punched a werewolf in the face.”
    ― Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: perfection
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  • #7
    Charles Dickens
    “We need never be ashamed of our tears.”
    ― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
    tags: crying, shame, sorrow, tears
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    Martin Page
    “Inteligenţa te face nefericit, singuratic, sărac, pe cînd
    deghizarea inteligenţei îţi conferă o imortalitate de hîrtie
    de ziar şi admiraţia celor care cred în ce citesc.”
    ― Martin Page, How I Became Stupid
    tags: how-i-became-stupid
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Haruki Murakami
    “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
    tags: books, thought
    31240 likes

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    Zelda Fitzgerald
    “She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.”
    ― Zelda Fitzgerald, The Collected Writings
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    Julian Barnes
    “Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.”
    ― Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot
    tags: books, life
    3690 likes

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    Confucius
    “Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”
    ― Confucious
    tags: beauty, everything, seeing
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    Andy Warhol
    “They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”
    ― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
    tags: change, initiative, time
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    Andy Warhol
    “The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting”
    ― Andy Warhol
    tags: anticipation
    394 likes

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  • #16
    Ezra Pound
    “Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.”
    ― Ezra Pound
    tags: books, light, reading
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    Andy Warhol
    “It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.”
    ― Andy Warhol
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    Andy Warhol
    “Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.”
    ― Andy Warhol
    tags: criticism
    1126 likes

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  • #20
    John Steinbeck
    “Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”
    ― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
    tags: loneliness, people, scared, world
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    Samuel Lover
    “Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.”
    ― Samuel Lover, Rory O'More
    tags: motivational
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    Jane Yolen
    “Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.”
    ― Jane Yolen, Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie & Folklore in the Literature of Childhood
    tags: childhood, disease, literature
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...”
    ― Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
    tags: inspirational
    33875 likes

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  • #24
    Michel de Montaigne
    “On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: humility, throne
    1890 likes

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    Philip K. Dick
    “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”
    ― Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon
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  • #26
    Hitomi Kanehara
    “God has to be a sadist to give people life.”
    ― Hitomi Kanehara, Snakes And Earrings
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    Hitomi Kanehara
    “If you were God, what kind of human would you create?" I asked.

    "I wouldn't change how they look. But I would make them as dumb as chickens. So dumb they'd never even imagine the existence of a god.”
    ― Hitomi Kanehara, Snakes And Earrings
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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
    3684 likes

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    Leo Tolstoy
    “But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
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  • #30
    Leo Tolstoy
    “it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: anna-karenina, deeds, good, leo-tolstoy
    803 likes

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    Haruki Murakami
    “For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun
    tags: time, waiting
    1217 likes



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