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    Oscar Wilde
    “Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: appreciation, awe, beauty, life, optimism, positivity, sense-of-wonder, stars
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    Victor Hugo
    “What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul”
    ― Victor Hugo , Les Misérables
    tags: love, soul, stars
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    Victor Hugo
    “Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”
    ― Victor Hugo
    tags: literature, music, poetry
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    William Shakespeare
    “The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.”
    ― William Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part 2
    tags: anarchy, classic, murder, wit
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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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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism, self-awareness, self-determination, women
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata
    tags: beauty, delusion, goodness, lies, self-deception, wisdom
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: perfection
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: happiness
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: change, tolstoy
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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “And the rest is rust and stardust.”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: ataraxy, inner-strength, inspiration, self-control, strength
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    tags: animals, cruelty, mankind
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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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    Anaïs Nin
    “We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
    ― Anais Nin
    tags: anais-nin, qoutes-on-writing, writing
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
    tags: lies, love, respect, self-deception, truth
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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
    ― Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    tags: life-memories
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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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    Ralph Ellison
    “When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.”
    ― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
    tags: freedom, identity, independence, self-awareness, self-discovery
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    Lauren Oliver
    “I'd rather die my way than live yours.”
    ― Lauren Oliver, Delirium
    tags: independence, lena-holoway, self-determination, self-reliance
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: age, empowerment, equality, experience, freedom, gender, independence, men, reason, self-determination, submission, superiority, women, women-s-rights
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, ideal-woman, identity, image, independence, integrity, love, men, realism, romance, self-awareness, self-determination, women
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    William Shakespeare
    “When he shall die,
    Take him and cut him out in little stars,
    And he will make the face of heaven so fine
    That all the world will be in love with night
    And pay no worship to the garish sun.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
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    Mae West
    “There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: women
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    Mae West
    “I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, temptation
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    Mae West
    “Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: chivalry, men, protection, relationships, women
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    Mae West
    “I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor
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    Mae West
    “Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.”
    ― Mae West
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    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor
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