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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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    Aldous Huxley
    “I am I, and I wish I weren't.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
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    George Orwell
    “Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me:
    There lie they, and here lie we
    Under the spreading chestnut tree.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
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    Markus Zusak
    “The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
    tags: boys, hate, love
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    Joseph Heller
    “Since he had nothing better to do well in, he did well in school.”
    ― Joseph Heller, Catch-22
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    Stephen Chbosky
    “So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: charlie, favourite-books, inspirational, sad, soul-searching, wallflower
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    J.D. Salinger
    “I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: friendship, insincerity, manners
    3117 likes

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    Aldous Huxley
    “I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
    tags: passion
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  • #9
    Albert Camus
    “I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.”
    ― Albert Camus, Notebooks 1951-1959
    tags: atheism, god, religion
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  • #10
    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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    Stephen Chbosky
    “And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: infinity
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    J.D. Salinger
    “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing
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    J.D. Salinger
    “I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot. ”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: holden
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    Joseph Heller
    “He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.”
    ― Joseph Heller, Catch-22
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    Joseph Heller
    “Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three. Even among men lacking all distinction he inevitably stood out as a man lacking more distinction than all the rest, and people who met him were always impressed by how unimpressive he was.”
    ― Joseph Heller, Catch-22
    361 likes

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    Haruki Murakami
    “Everyone may be ordinary, but they're not normal.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
    486 likes

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  • #17
    George Orwell
    “Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: truth
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    George Orwell
    “War is peace.
    Freedom is slavery.
    Ignorance is strength.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: freedom, ignorance, inspirational, war
    7180 likes

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    George Orwell
    “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: april, dystopia, first-sentence, opening-lines
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    Aldous Huxley
    “But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
    tags: brave-new-world, hunger, thirst, yearning
    4469 likes

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    Aldous Huxley
    “If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
    tags: loneliness
    2311 likes

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  • #22
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “And so it goes...”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
    tags: classics
    4734 likes

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  • #23
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
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    Shaun David Hutchinson
    “I saw the world from the stars' point of view, and it looked unbearably lonely.”
    ― Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants
    tags: aliens, bullying, death, depression, history, life, loss, love, space, stars, suicide, teen, ya
    554 likes

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    Louis-Ferdinand Céline
    “An unfamiliar city is a fine thing. That's the time and place when you can suppose that all the people you meet are nice. It's dream time. ”
    ― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Nothing burns like the cold.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: burn, cold, winter
    1478 likes

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    Shaun David Hutchinson
    “Sometimes I think gravity may be death in disguise. Other times I think gravity is love, which is why love's only demand is that we fall.”
    ― Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants
    tags: aliens, death, gravity, love, teens, ya
    315 likes

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  • #28
    Claire North
    “The most it ever seems we know how to do with time, is to waste it.”
    ― Claire North, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
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  • #29
    John Green
    “Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: books, power-of-words, reading
    26921 likes

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  • #30
    George R.R. Martin
    “And I have a tender spot in my heart for cripples and bastards and broken things.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    1823 likes



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