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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “We loved each other with a premature love, marked by a fierceness that so often destroys adult lives.”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
    tags: pp-18
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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “Some might think that the creativity, imagination, and flights of fancy that give my life meaning are insanity.”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov (translator)
    tags: imagination
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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don't really exist if you don't.”
    ― Nabokov Vladimi, Lolita
    tags: exist, imagine, need, reader
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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov
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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov
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    J.M. Barrie
    “Oh, the cleverness of me!”
    ― James M. Barrie, Peter Pan
    tags: peter-pan-clever-arrogance
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    J.M. Barrie
    “She was a lovely lady, with a romantic mind and such a sweet mocking mouth. Her romantic mind was like the tiny boxes, one within the other, that come from the puzzling East, however many you discover there is always one more; and her sweet mocking mouth had one kiss on it that Wendy could never get, though there it was, perfectly conspicuous in the right-hand corner.”
    ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
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    J.M. Barrie
    “children know such a lot now, they soon don't believe in fairies, and every time a child says, 'I don't believe in fairies,' there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.”
    ― J.M. Barrie
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    J.M. Barrie
    “Never is an awfully long time.”
    ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
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    J.M. Barrie
    “There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.”
    ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
    tags: breathing
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    J.M. Barrie
    “Tink was not all bad: or, rather, she was all bad just now, but, on the other hand, sometimes she was all good. Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time. They are, however, allowed to change, only it must be a complete change.”
    ― J M Barrie, Peter Pan
    tags: fairies, fairy, peter-pan, tinker-bell, tinkerbell
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    J.M. Barrie
    “The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.”
    ― J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan
    tags: barrie, belief, fantasy, flying, imagination, kensington-gardens, london, magic, neverland, park, peter-pan, scotland, self-confidence
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    J.M. Barrie
    “On these magic shores children at play are for ever beaching their coracles. We too have been there; we can still hear the sound of the surf, though we shall land no more.”
    ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
    tags: childhood, magic
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    J.M. Barrie
    “She's awfully fond of Wendy,' he said to himself. He was angry with her now for not seeing why she could not have Wendy.
    The reason was so simple: 'I'm fond of her too. We can't both have her, lady.”
    ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
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    J.M. Barrie
    “Boy, why are you crying?”
    ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
    tags: concern, lament, lovable
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    J.M. Barrie
    “Stars are beautiful, but they may not take an active part in anything, they must just look on for ever. It is a punishment put on them for something they did so long ago that no star now knows what it was. So the older ones have become glassy-eyed and seldom speak (winking is the star language), but the little ones still wonder.”
    ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
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    J.M. Barrie
    “The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.”
    ― J.M. Barrie, The Little White Bird
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    J.M. Barrie
    “Wendy, Wendy, when you are sleeping in your silly bed you might be flying about with me saying funny things to the stars.”
    ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
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    J.M. Barrie
    “One could mention many lovable traits in Smee. For instance, after killing, it was his spectacles he wiped instead of his weapon.”
    ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
    tags: peter-pan, pirates
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    J.M. Barrie
    “To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
    ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
    tags: adventure, love
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    J.M. Barrie
    “All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.”
    ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
    tags: faith, life, pixie-dust, trust
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    J.M. Barrie
    “When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.”
    ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
    tags: happiness
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    J.M. Barrie
    “Dreams do come true, if only we wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.”
    ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
    tags: sacrifice
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    J.M. Barrie
    “Second star to the right and straight on 'til morning. ”
    ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
    tags: childhood-memory
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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “Life is short. From here to that old car you know so well there is a stretch of twenty, twenty-five paces. It is a very short walk. Make those twenty-five steps. Now. Right now. Come just as you are. And we shall live happily ever after. ”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
    tags: love
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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “I was weeping again, drunk on the impossible past.”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov
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    Virginia Woolf
    “She had the perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very, dangerous to live even one day.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
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    Nicholas Sparks
    “Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.”
    ― Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember
    tags: love, simile
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    Suzanne Collins
    “You love me. Real or not real?"
    I tell him, "Real.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
    tags: katniss, love, peeta, suzanne-collins, the-hunger-games
    28711 likes



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