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#1

“But what are years, what are months!" he would exclaim. "Why count the days, when even one day is enough for man to know all happiness.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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#2

“Life is paradise, and we are all in paradise, but we refuse to see it.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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#3

“Nature didn't need an operation to be beautiful. It just was.”
― Scott Westerfeld, The Uglies Trilogy

tags: appreciation, beauty, tally

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#4

“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

tags: books, reading, truth

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#5

“Stocks you trade, it's wives you're stuck with.”
― Peter Lynch, One Up On Wall Street: How to Use What You Already Know to Make Money in the Market

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#6

“When pain brings you down, don't be silly, don't close your eyes and cry, you just might be in the best position to see the sun shine.”
― Alanis Morissette

tags: cry, eyes, pain, shine, silly, song-lyrics, sun

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#7

“El terror anula a los seres humanos, y para poder sobrevivir saca los peores instintos.”
― Julia Navarro, Dime quién soy

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#8

“It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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#9

“When a man says he does not want to speak of something he usually means he can think of nothing else.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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#10

“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”
― Tom Bodett

tags: happiness, hope, joy, love, wishing

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#11

“In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion."

[The Minotaur]”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

tags: introspection, retreat, solitude

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#12

“A guy and a girl can be just friends, but at one point or another, they will fall for each other...Maybe temporarily, maybe at the wrong time, maybe too late, or maybe forever”
― Dave Matthews Band

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#13

“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
― G.K. Chesterton

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#14

“That's how you know you love someone, I guess, when you can't experience anything without wishing the other person were there to see it, too.”
― Kaui Hart Hemmings, The Descendants

tags: love, missing

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#15

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― James Baldwin

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#16

“You write in order to change the world ... if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.”
― James Baldwin

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#17

“I often wonder what I'd do if there weren't any books in the world.”
― James Baldwin , Giovanni’s Room

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#18

“She wanted, with her fickleness, to make my destruction constant; I want, by trying to destroy myself, to satisfy her desire.”
― Miguel De Cervantes, Don Quixote

tags: angst, love

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#19

“Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

tags: goodbye

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#20

“I do not say goodbye. I believe that's one of the bullshitiest words ever invented. It's not like you're given the choice to say bad-bye, or awful-bye, or couldn't-care-less-about-you-bye. Everytime you leave, it's supposed to be a good one.”
― John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

tags: goodbye

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#21

“Llevo unos días que descubro sombras extrañas en los ojos de todos. ¿No le ha sucedido alguna vez atribuir su estado de ánimo al mundo que la rodea?”
― Carmen Laforet, Nada

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#22

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
― St. Augustine

tags: allegory, books, broad-mindedness, classic, education, imagery, travel, world

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