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    James Baldwin
    “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
    ― James Baldwin
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    Ray Bradbury
    “Perhaps I'm not their dead one back, but I'm something almost better to them; an ideal shaped by their minds.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles
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    Stephen King
    “Hodges has read there are wells in Iceland so deep you can drop a stone down them and never hear the splash. He thinks some human souls are like that.”
    ― Stephen King, Mr. Mercedes
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    Ray Bradbury
    “We earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles
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    Ray Bradbury
    “It is good to renew one's wonder, said the philosopher. Space travel has again made children of us all.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles
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    “The only way we will survive is by being kind. The only way we can get by in this world is through the help we receive from others. No one can do it alone, no matter how great the machines are.”
    ― Amy Poehler, Yes Please
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    Ray Bradbury
    “They began by controlling books of cartoons and then detective books and, of course, films, one way or another, one group or another, political bias, religious prejudice, union pressure; there was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles
    tags: censorship, chain-reactions, control, fear, political-bias, religious-prejudice
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    Martha Gellhorn
    “On the night of New Year’s Day, I thought of a wonderful New Year’s resolution for the men who run the world: get to know the people who only live in it.”
    ― Martha Gellhorn, The Face of War
    tags: politicians, power, war
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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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    Lemony Snicket
    “If you have ever lost a loved one, then you know exactly how it feels. And if you have not, then you cannot possibly imagine it.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning
    tags: bereavement, mourning
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    Jomny Sun
    “there are many reasons to be sad.

    u may be sad because u feel alone. the comforting thing abot feeling lonely is that every thing that has ever existed also knows what loneliness feels like too.

    u may be sad because u are sad. it is ok to be sad but if u are sad because happiness is fleeting, just remember that sadness is also fleeting too.”
    ― Jomny Sun, Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too
    tags: happiness, life, sadness
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
    tags: close, extremely, foer, incredibly, jonathan, living, loud, safran
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    Kazuo Ishiguro
    “What is the point of worrying oneself too much about what one could or could not have done to control the course one's life took? Surely it is enough that the likes of you and I at least try to make our small contribution count for something true and worthy. And if some of us are prepared to sacrifice much in life in order to pursue such aspirations, surely that in itself, whatever the outcome, cause for pride and contentment.”
    ― Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day
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    Kazuo Ishiguro
    “If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of.”
    ― Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day
    tags: inspirational, life-experience, self-development
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    Jane Austen
    “I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.”
    ― Jane Austen, Persuasion
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    “A woman that knows her worth doesn't measure herself against another woman but stands strong, calmed and self confident.”
    ― Oscar Auliq-Ice
    tags: girls, mother-s-day-quotes, sayings-for-mom, women, women-quotes, women-s-day, women-s-day-quotes
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    Stephen Hawking
    “Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.
    It matters that you don't just give up.”
    ― Stephen Hawking
    tags: courage, curiosity, hopefulness, motivational, perseverance, universe, wonder
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    Haruki Murakami
    “Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
    tags: memories
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    Haruki Murakami
    “If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
    tags: inspirational, love
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    Haruki Murakami
    “Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
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    Haruki Murakami
    “Closing your eyes isn't going to change anything. Nothing's going to disappear just because you can't see what's going on. In fact, things will even be worse the next time you open your eyes. That's the kind of world we live in. Keep your eyes wide open. Only a coward closes his eyes. Closing your eyes and plugging up your ears won't make time stand still.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
    tags: escapism, page-192
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    Kazuo Ishiguro
    “Indeed — why should I not admit it? — in that moment, my heart was breaking.”
    ― Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day
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    Osamu Dazai
    “Now I have neither happiness nor unhappiness.

    Everything passes.

    That is the one and only thing that I have thought resembled a truth in the society of human beings where I have dwelled up to now as in a burning hell.

    Everything passes.”
    ― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human
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    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journals
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    “If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.”
    ― Joan Powers, Pooh's Little Instruction Book
    tags: friendship, misattributed-a-a-milne
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    A.A. Milne
    “It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?”
    ― A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
    tags: friendship
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    Hiro Arikawa
    “My story will be over soon. But it’s not something to be sad about. Remembering those who went ahead. Remembering those who will follow after. And someday, we will meet all those people again, out beyond the horizon”
    ― Hiro Arikawa, Nana Du Ký
    tags: death, life
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    Rachel Khong
    “A long time ago I stopped wondering why there are so many crazy people. What surprises me now is that there are so many sane ones.”
    ― Rachel Khong, Goodbye, Vitamin
    tags: crazy, sane
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    Han Kang
    “After you died I couldn't hold a funeral,
    So these eyes that once beheld you became a shrine.
    These ears that once heard your voice became a shrine.
    These lungs that once inhaled your breath became a shrine.”
    ― Han Kang, Human Acts
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