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    Anaïs Nin
    “We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
    ― Anaïs Nin
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    Oscar Wilde
    “You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: education, fashion
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    Henry Ford
    “Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.”
    ― Henry Ford
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    John Green
    “What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.”
    ― John Green, Paper Towns
    tags: paper-towns
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    Alexander McCall Smith
    “It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything.”
    ― Alexander McCall Smith, Morality for Beautiful Girls
    tags: happiness, irony, knowledge
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    Stephen Chbosky
    “Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: change, life
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    George Orwell
    “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: inspirational
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    Anthony Burgess
    “The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.”
    ― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
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    Tomislav Šola
    “Professionalism is like love: it is made up of the constant flow of little bits of proof that testify to devotion and care. Everything else is pretension or incompetence.”
    ― Tomislav S. Šola, Eternity Does Not Live Here Any More - A Glossary of Museum Sins
    tags: comparison, heritology, museology, museum, professionalism, šola
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    Jane Austen
    “Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: prejudice, pride, vanity
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    Bernard Beckett
    “Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differences resolved. It is a type of confidence. And it is fragile. It can be blackened by fear, and superstition. By the year 2050, when the conflict began, the world had fallen upon fearful, superstitious times.”
    ― Bernard Beckett, Genesis
    tags: confidence, curiosity, fear, fragile, optimism, spirit, superstition
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    Bernard Beckett
    “In the end, living is defined by dying.”
    ― Bernard Beckett, Genesis
    tags: death, life
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    Ray Bradbury
    “Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
    tags: life, living
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    Elizabeth Gaskell
    “I know you despise me; allow me to say, it is because you do not understand me.”
    ― Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
    tags: prejudice, understanding
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    Elizabeth Gaskell
    “Nothing like the act of eating for equalizing men. Dying is nothing to it.”
    ― Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
    tags: independent-thought, self-determination, self-expression
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
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    John Green
    “The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
    ― John Green, Looking for Alaska
    tags: compassion, life, suffering
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    John Green
    “It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.”
    ― John Green, Paper Towns
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    John Green
    “Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: amsterdam, freedom, sin
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    John Green
    “Not that smart. Not that hot. Not that nice. Not that funny. That's me: I'm not that.”
    ― John Green
    tags: self-assessment
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    Max Brooks
    “1. Organize before they rise!
    2. They feel no fear, why should you?
    3. Use your head: cut off theirs.
    4. Blades don't need reloading.
    5. Ideal protection = tight clothes, short hair.
    6. Get up the staircase, then destroy it.
    7. Get out of the car, get onto the bike.
    8. Keep moving, keep low, keep quiet, keep alert!
    9. No place is safe, only safer.
    10. The zombie may be gone, but the threat lives on.”
    ― Max Brooks, The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead
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  • #23
    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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    Stephen Chbosky
    “So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: the-perks-of-being-a-wallflower
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    Stephen Chbosky
    “And I thought that all those little kids are going to grow up someday. And all of those little kids are going to do the things that we do. And they will all kiss someone someday. But for now, sledding is enough. I think it would be great if sledding were always enough, but it isn't.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: humor, inspirational
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    Colson Whitehead
    “A society manufactures the heroes it requires.”
    ― Colson Whitehead, Zone One
    tags: heroes
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    Colson Whitehead
    “Everyone was fucked up in their own way; as before, it was a mark of one’s individuality.”
    ― Colson Whitehead, Zone One
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  • #28
    David Foster Wallace
    “Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”
    ― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
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    George Orwell
    “War is peace.
    Freedom is slavery.
    Ignorance is strength.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: freedom, ignorance, inspirational, war
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  • #30
    George Orwell
    “In the face of pain there are no heroes.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: 1984
    1758 likes



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