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#1

“The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: attributed, growing-up, wilhelm-stekel

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#2

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy

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#3

“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
― William Shakespeare

tags: destiny

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#4

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

tags: friendship, love

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#5

“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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#6

“I think you have to have faith in people before they earn it. Otherwise it's not faith, right?”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

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#7

“When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope.”
― Pittacus Lore, I Am Number Four

tags: hope

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#8

“Our character isn’t defined by the battles we win or lose, but by the battles we dare to fight.”
― Robert Beatty, Serafina and the Black Cloak

tags: angel, graveyard, robert-beatty, serafina-and-the-black-cloak

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#9

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: books, library, reading

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#10

“She had a lively, playful disposition that delighted in anything ridiculous.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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#11

“The men think us incapable of real friendship, you know, and I am determined to show them the difference.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

tags: feminism, friendship, humour, inspiring, isabella-thorpe, jane-austen, northanger-abbey, regency

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#12

“I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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#13

“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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#14

“I'd rather chase the sun than wait for it.”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

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#15

“If music stops, and art ceases, and beauty fades, what have we then?”
― Julie Berry, Lovely War

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#16

“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: books, life, limits

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#17

“Everything that ever happens to you only happens once, so you better never stop paying attention.”
― Jessie Ann Foley, The Carnival at Bray

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#18

“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: dorian-gray, oscar-wilde, the-picture-of-dorian-gray, wilde

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#19

“Everything in moderation, including moderation.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: advice-for-daily-living, motto

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#20

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#21

“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

tags: drama, humor, plays

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#22

“Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.”
― Henry David Thoreau

tags: characters, dreams, touchstones

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#23

“Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit.”
― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

tags: humor, shakespeare

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#24

“No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.”
― Tom Schulman, Dead Poets Society

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#25

“Life is too important to be taken seriously.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: paraphrased, truth-in-jest

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#26

“When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: carpe-diem, inspirational, life, seize-the-day

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