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    Susan Sontag
    “To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.”
    ― Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others
    tags: hit, sages, thinking, violence
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Never laugh at live dragons.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: dragons, wisdom
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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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    Lloyd Alexander
    “Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
    ― Lloyd Alexander
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    Judith Viorst
    “Strength is the capacity to break a Hershey bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.”
    ― Judith Viorst, Love and Guilt and the Meaning of Life, Etc.
    tags: chocolate, strength
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    Charles Lamb
    “Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.”
    ― Charles Lamb, The life, letters and writings of Charles Lamb Volume 3
    tags: friendship, nonsense
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    Zelda Fitzgerald
    “I don't want to live, I want to love first and live incidentally.”
    ― Zelda Fitzgerald
    tags: incidental, life, love
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    Zelda Fitzgerald
    “Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
    ― Zelda Fitzgerald
    tags: love
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    Zelda Fitzgerald
    “The night you gave me my birthday party... you were a young Lieutenant and I was a fragrant phantom, wasn't I? And it was a radiant night, a night of soft conspiracy and the trees agreed that it was all going to be for the best.”
    ― Zelda Fitzgerald
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    Zelda Fitzgerald
    “I love you, even if there isn’t any me, or any love, or even any life. I love you.”
    ― Zelda Fitzgerald
    tags: life, love
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    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
    And all the sweet serenity of books”
    ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    tags: books, learning, love, serenity
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    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “Music is the universal language of mankind.”
    ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    tags: music, poetry, power-of-music
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    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain.”
    ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    tags: acceptance, contentment, raining
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    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven,
    Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.”
    ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie
    tags: inspiration, remembrance, starlight, stars
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    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart”
    ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    tags: conscience, life, sadness
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    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.”
    ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “The heart, like the mind, has a memory.
    And in it are kept the most precious keepsakes.”
    ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.”
    ― Longfellow
    tags: accuracy
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    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “And the night shall be filled with music,
    And the cares, that infest the day,
    Shall fold their tents like the Arabs,
    and silently steal away.”
    ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    tags: music, night
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    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “For age is opportunity no less
    Than youth itself, though in another dress,
    And as the evening twilight fades away
    The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.”
    ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    tags: age, old-age, opportunity, stars, twilight, youth
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    Galileo Galilei
    “I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.”
    ― Galileo Galilei
    tags: inspirational
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    Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to
    “Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.”
    ― George Sand
    tags: kindness
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    André Breton
    “My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.”
    ― André Breton, What Is Surrealism?: Selected Writings
    tags: love, madness
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    Lemony Snicket
    “If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, The Wide Window
    tags: humor-cats-allergies
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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
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    Toni Morrison
    “Make up a story... For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light. Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief's wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear's caul.”
    ― Toni Morrison, The Nobel Lecture In Literature, 1993
    tags: story, writing
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    Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
    “A man sometimes devotes his life to a desire which he is not sure will ever be fulfilled. Those who laugh at this folly are, after all, no more than mere spectators of life.”
    ― Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Rashomon and Other Stories
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    Elizabeth Taylor
    “The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.”
    ― Elizabeth Taylor
    tags: indulgence, virtue
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    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    “Earth's crammed with heaven...
    But only he who sees, takes off his shoes.”
    ― Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh
    tags: awareness, earth, heaven, life
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    Flannery O'Connor
    “I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.”
    ― Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
    tags: humor, wit
    1136 likes



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