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    George Orwell
    “The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: books, reading
    4401 likes

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    Francis Picabia
    “The devil follows me day and night because he is afraid to be alone.”
    ― Francis Picabia
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    Sallust
    “Now these things never happened, but always are.”
    ― Sallustius, Concerning the Gods and the Universe
    tags: myths
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: humility, self-improvement
    5341 likes

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    Alan Moore
    “People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.”
    ― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta
    tags: democracy, equality, government, misattributed
    3482 likes

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    Plato
    “For to fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For no one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man.”
    ― Plato, Apology
    tags: death, fear-of-death, plato
    176 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
    46489 likes

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    C.S. Lewis
    “Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: age, fairytales, growing-up
    18122 likes

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    Janet Fitch
    “If sinners were so unhappy, why would they prefer their suffering? But now I knew why. Without my wounds, who was I?”
    ― Janet Fitch, White Oleander
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    Franz Kafka
    “A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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    John Green
    “The voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: ambition, dreams, inspirational
    75 likes

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    J.K. Rowling
    “Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    tags: live-death-love
    19564 likes

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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
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    Maya Angelou
    “If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: attributed-no-source, conformity, normal, unsourced
    419 likes

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    Franz Kafka
    “Do you know, darling? When you became involved with others you quite possibly stepped down a level or two, but If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss.”
    ― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
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    Aldous Huxley
    “The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, The Genius and the Goddess
    tags: fiction, huxley, inspirational, reality
    140 likes

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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination
    3547 likes

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    Maurice Sendak
    “I remember my own childhood vividly...I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I knew. It would scare them”
    ― Maurice Sendak
    tags: childhood, fantasy, fear, imagination, life
    98 likes

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    James Baldwin
    “People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state on innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.”
    ― James Baldwin
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: capital-punishment, death-penalty, gandalf, j-r-r-tolkien, lord-of-the-rings
    1880 likes

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    James Baldwin
    “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
    ― James Baldwin
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: inspirational
    7910 likes

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    Dalai Lama XIV
    “Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.”
    ― Dalai Lama XIV
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  • #24
    Socrates
    “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: knowledge, wisdom
    15486 likes

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  • #25
    Plato
    “One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”
    ― Plato
    tags: philosophy, politics
    1148 likes

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    J.K. Rowling
    “I open at the close.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    334 likes

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  • #27
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.”
    ― Ursula K. LeGuin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
    tags: art, artists, evil, happiness, pain
    1586 likes

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  • #28
    Terry Pratchett
    “Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Soul Music
    tags: discworld, literature, pratchett
    92 likes

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    Liane Moriarty
    “He could find hatred in his heart for her, too, if he went looking for it. The secret of a happy marriage was not to go looking for it.”
    ― Liane Moriarty, Nine Perfect Strangers
    38 likes

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  • #30
    Leigh Bardugo
    “All whiteboards are magical.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House
    49 likes



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