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    Trevor Noah
    “I don’t regret anything I’ve ever done in life, any choice that I’ve made. But I’m consumed with regret for the things I didn’t do, the choices I didn’t make, the things I didn’t say. We spend so much time being afraid of failure, afraid of rejection. But regret is the thing we should fear most. Failure is an answer. Rejection is an answer. Regret is an eternal question you will never have the answer to. “What if…” “If only…” “I wonder what would have…” You will never, never know, and it will haunt you for the rest of your days.”
    ― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
    tags: inspirational, life
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
    tags: dumbledore, philosophy
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    tags: dumbledore, power-of-words
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Perhaps you have been looking in the wrong places.”
    ― J.K. Rowling
    tags: dumbledore, harry-potter
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    J.K. Rowling
    “It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: dumbledore
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    J.K. Rowling
    “I sometimes find, and I am sure you know the feeling, that I simply have too many thoughts and memories crammed into my mind.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
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    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    “The knowledge of cooking does not come pre-installed in a vagina.”
    ― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
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    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    “Because you are a girl” is never a reason for anything. Ever.”
    ― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
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    It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our
    “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
    tags: abilities
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: freedom, women, writing
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts
    tags: books, metaphor, soul
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    Virginia Woolf
    “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: food, love
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: arrogance, empowerment, feminism, gender, hypocrisy, inequality, men, self-importance, women
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    Virginia Woolf
    “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: fiction, money, on-writing, virgin, women, writing
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
    tags: literature, reading, writing
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    Virginia Woolf
    “There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
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    Nelson Mandela
    “I always remember the regent’s axiom: a leader, he said, is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.   It”
    ― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: clichés, dignity, double-standards, empowerment, feminism, gender, hypocrisy, inequality, misogyny, morality, protectiveness, social-norms, stereotypes, womanhood, women
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: empowerment, fiction, gender, on-fiction, problems, women, women-writers
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Truth had run through my fingers. Every drop had escaped.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: word-up-virginia
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    J.K. Rowling
    “There are all kinds of courage," said Dumbledore, smiling. "It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends. I therefore award ten points to Mr. Neville Longbottom!”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: albus-dumbledore, neville-longbottom
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    David Mitchell
    “A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.”
    ― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
    tags: books, love, reading
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    David Mitchell
    “Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.”
    ― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
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    David Mitchell
    “Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.”
    ― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
    tags: books, escape, reading
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    David Mitchell
    “People pontificate, "Suicide is selfishness." Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and call in a cowardly assault on the living. Oafs argue this specious line for varying reason: to evade fingers of blame, to impress one's audience with one's mental fiber, to vent anger, or just because one lacks the necessary suffering to sympathize. Cowardice is nothing to do with it - suicide takes considerable courage. Japanese have the right idea. No, what's selfish is to demand another to endure an intolerable existence, just to spare families, friends, and enemies a bit of soul-searching.”
    ― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
    tags: death, guilt, selfishness, suffering, suicide
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    David Mitchell
    “Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.”
    ― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
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    David Mitchell
    “Fantasy. Lunacy.
    All revolutions are, until they happen, then they are historical inevitabilities.”
    ― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
    tags: fantasy, history, revolution
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    David Mitchell
    “Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies, an' tho' a cloud's shape nor hue nor size don't stay the same, it's still a cloud an' so is a soul. Who can say where the cloud's blowed from or who the soul'll be 'morrow? Only Sonmi the east an' the west an' the compass an' the atlas, yay, only the atlas o' clouds.”
    ― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
    tags: cloud-atlas, life, soul, spirituality
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    David Mitchell
    “Time is what stops history happening at once; time is the speed at which the past disappears.”
    ― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
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