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    Madeline Miller
    “But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.”
    ― Madeline Miller, Circe
    tags: circe, constellations, daedalus, greek-mythology, love, stars
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    Madeline Miller
    “He showed me his scars, and in return he let me pretend that I had none.”
    ― Madeline Miller, Circe
    tags: circe, greek-mythology, intimacy, love, odysseus, scars, vulnerability
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    Madeline Miller
    “Humbling women seems to me a chief pastime of poets. As if there can be no story unless we crawl and weep.”
    ― Madeline Miller, Circe
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    Madeline Miller
    “I thought: I cannot bear this world a moment longer. Then, child, make another.”
    ― Madeline Miller, Circe
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    Madeline Miller
    “But perhaps no parent can truly see their child. When we look we see only the mirror of our own faults.”
    ― Madeline Miller, Circe
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    Madeline Miller
    “That is one thing gods and mortals share. When we are young, we think ourselves the first to have each feeling in the world.”
    ― Madeline Miller, Circe
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    Madeline Miller
    “The thought was this: that all my life had been murk and depths, but I was not a part of that dark water. I was a creature within it.”
    ― Madeline Miller, Circe
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    Madeline Miller
    “You are wise,” he said.

    “If it is so,” I said, “it is only because I have been fool enough for a hundred lifetimes.”
    ― Madeline Miller, Circe
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    Madeline Miller
    “You cannot know how frightened gods are of pain. There is nothing more foreign to them, and so nothing they ache more deeply to see.”
    ― Madeline Miller, Circe
    tags: deity, gods, greek-mythology, immortality, mythology, pain
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    Madeline Miller
    “Yet because I knew nothing, nothing was beneath me.”
    ― Madeline Miller, Circe
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    Madeline Miller
    “I had been old and stern for so long, carved with regrets and years like a monolith. But that was only a shape I had been poured into. I did not have to keep it.”
    ― Madeline Miller, Circe
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    Madeline Miller
    “The truth is, men make terrible pigs.”
    ― Madeline Miller, Circe
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    Madeline Miller
    “I asked her how she did it once, how she understood the world so clearly. She told me that it was a matter of keeping very still and showing no emotions, leaving room for others to reveal themselves.”
    ― Madeline Miller, Circe
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    Madeline Miller
    “We are sorry, we are sorry.

    Sorry you were caught, I said. Sorry that you thought I was weak, but you were wrong.”
    ― Madeline Miller, Circe
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    Madeline Miller
    “But gods are born of ichor and nectar, their excellences already bursting from their fingertips. So they find their fame by proving what they can mar: destroying cities, starting wars, breeding plagues and monsters. All that smoke and savor rising so delicately from our altars. It leaves only ash behind.”
    ― Madeline Miller, Circe
    tags: circe, deities, destruction, greek-mythology, immortality, mythology
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    Madeline Miller
    “It was their favorite bitter joke: those who fight against prophecy only draw it more tightly around their throats.”
    ― Madeline Miller, Circe
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    Madeline Miller
    “How many of us would be granted pardon if our true hearts were known?”
    ― Madeline Miller, Circe
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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    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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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    ― Narcotics Anonymous
    tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein
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    André Gide
    “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
    ― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves
    tags: life, love
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    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    ― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You
    tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail
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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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    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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    Marilyn Monroe
    “Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, inspirational
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    J.K. Rowling
    “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: dreams, life
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
    tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton
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    William Shakespeare
    “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
    ― William Shakespeare, As You Like It
    tags: wisdom
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    Allen Saunders
    “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
    ― Allen Saunders
    tags: fate, life, misattributed-john-lennon, planning, plans
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