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    Leo Tolstoy
    “The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: books, life, writing
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    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: charles-bayard-mitchell
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Never laugh at live dragons.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: dragons, wisdom
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    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    “L'homme est né libre, et partout il est dans les fers.”
    ― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
    tags: political-philosophy
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    Lewis Carroll
    “When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’

    ’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’

    ’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass
    tags: language
    331 likes

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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
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    Heinrich Heine
    “Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.”
    ― Heinrich Heine
    tags: books, censorship
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: family, friends, parties, social
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    Walter Benjamin
    “There is no document of civilization that is not at the same time a document of barbarism.”
    ― Walter Benjamin
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    Walter Benjamin
    “No poem is intended for the reader, no picture for the beholder, no symphony for the listener.”
    ― Walter Benjamin, Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
    "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: adventuring, death, time
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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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    William Shakespeare
    “Doubt thou the stars are fire;
    Doubt that the sun doth move;
    Doubt truth to be a liar;
    But never doubt I love.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Hamlet
    tags: love
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    Lemony Snicket
    “People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, The Grim Grotto
    tags: life
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: hope, inspirational, love
    8302 likes

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    Walter Benjamin
    “The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the ‘state of emergency’ in which we live is not the exception but the rule. We must attain to a conception of history that is in keeping with this insight.”
    ― Walter Benjamin, On the Concept of History
    tags: fascism, history, politics, state-of-emergency
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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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    Patrick Rothfuss
    “There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear
    tags: fear, name-of-the-wind, patrick-rothfuss, wisdom
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    Mia Couto
    “Ainda lembrei de suas palavras amadurecendo uma esperança para mim quando eu de tudo descria:
    -Não vê os rios que nunca enchem o mar? A vida de cada um também é assim: está sempre toda por viver.”
    ― Mia Couto, O Último Voo do Flamingo
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    William Shakespeare
    “Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
    ― William Shakespeare, The Tempest
    tags: inspirational
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    Alain Badiou
    “In political practice, we must be both 'the arrow and the bull's eye', because the old worldview is also still present within us.”
    ― Alain Badiou, The Communist Hypothesis
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    Douglas Adams
    “The story so far:
    In the beginning the Universe was created.
    This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
    tags: fantasy, humor, scifi
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    Aeschylus
    “A tyrant's trust dishonors those who earn it.”
    ― Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound
    tags: greek, honor, justice, prometheus, prometheus-bound, tyrant, zeus
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    João Guimarães Rosa
    “Aqui digo: que se teme por amor; mas que, por amor, também, é que a coragem se faz.”
    ― João Guimarães Rosa, Grande Sertão: Veredas
    tags: amor
    29 likes

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    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing
    32161 likes

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    William Shakespeare
    “Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
    tags: greatness
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: beauty, imperfections
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