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    Aeschylus
    “Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget
    falls drop by drop upon the heart
    until, in our own despair, against our will,
    comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.”
    ― Aeschylus
    tags: brutal-comforting
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    Albert Camus
    “When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: breathe, connection, look-up-and-enjoy-life, perspective, relationship, relax
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    Albert Camus
    “Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: humanity, life, mankind, mortality
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    Elena Ferrante
    “Words: with them you can do and undo as you please.”
    ― Elena Ferrante, The Story of a New Name
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I am no man”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
    tags: fantasy-fiction, femininity, inspirational
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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
    “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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    J.K. Rowling
    “And then he greeted Death as an old friend, and went with him gladly, and, equals, they departed this life.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
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  • #9
    Harper Lee
    “Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: reading
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    Harper Lee
    “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: better-life-empathy
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  • #11
    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: inspirational, love
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    André Aciman
    “We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything - what a waste!”
    ― Andre Aciman, Call Me by Your Name
    tags: aciman, call-me-by-your-name, italy, love
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    André Aciman
    “Is it better to speak or die?”
    ― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name
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    Albert Camus
    “Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: autumn
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    Albert Camus
    “When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.”
    ― Albert Camus, A Happy Death
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    Albert Camus
    “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: seasons, strength, trial, triumph
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  • #17
    Jane Austen
    “I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: happiness
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  • #18
    William Shakespeare
    “It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
    ― William Shakespeare
    tags: destiny
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  • #19
    William Shakespeare
    “By the pricking of my thumbs,
    Something wicked this way comes.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Macbeth
    tags: foreshadowing, macbeth
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  • #20
    Elena Ferrante
    “Children don’t know the meaning of yesterday, of the day before yesterday, or even of tomorrow, everything is this, now: the street is this, the doorway is this, the stairs are this, this is Mamma, this is Papa, this is the day, this the night.”
    ― Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend
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    André Aciman
    “Fear not. It will come. At least I hope it does. And when you least expect it. Nature has cunning ways of finding our weakest spot.”
    ― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name
    tags: andre-aciman, call-me-by-your-name
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    André Aciman
    “Oliver was Oliver,' I said, as if that summed things up.

    'Parce que c'était lui, parce que c'était moi,' my father added, quoting Montaigne's all-encompassing explanation for his friendship with Etienne de la Boétie.

    I was thinking, instead, of Emily Brontë's words: because 'he's more myself than I am.”
    ― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name
    tags: allusion, andre-aciman, call-me-by-your-name, emily-bronte, love, oliver-and-elio, soul-mates, wuthering-heights
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    Elena Ferrante
    “she was explaining to me that I had won nothing, that in the world there is nothing to win, that her life was full of varied and foolish adventures as much as mine, and that time simply slipped away without any meaning, and it was good just to see each other every so often to hear the mad sound of the brain of one echo in the mad sound of the brain of the other.”
    ― Elena Ferrante, The Story of a New Name
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I have a strange feeling with regard to you. As if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly knotted to a similar string in you. And if you were to leave I'm afraid that cord of communion would snap. And I have a notion that I'd take to bleeding inwardly. As for you, you'd forget me.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
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    Albert Camus
    “I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. I see others paradoxically getting killed for the ideas or illusions that give them a reason for living (what is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying). I therefore conclude that the meaning of life is the most urgent of questions.”
    ― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
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    Albert Camus
    “Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source
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  • #27
    Albert Camus
    “Live to the point of tears.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: life, living
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  • #28
    Albert Camus
    “You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.”
    ― Albert Camus, The Fall
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    Albert Camus
    “But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”
    ― Albert Camus
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  • #30
    Albert Camus
    “Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: on-fiction
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