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“Did you tell him, Alina? Does the boy know how willing you were to give yourself to me? Did you tell him what I showed you in the dark?”
A wave of shame rushed through me and the glowing light faltered. The Darkling laughed.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

tags: grisha-trilogy, grisha-verse

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#2

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire

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#3

“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
― Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader

tags: advice-for-daily-living, books, reader, reading, speaking, thinking, wisdom

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#4

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”
― Margaret Fuller

tags: read, reader, reading

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#5

“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

tags: literature, reading, solitude

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#6

“A word after a word after a word is power.”
― Margaret Atwood

tags: reading, writing

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#7

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#8

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism

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#9

“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: education, fashion

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#10

“A good friend will always stab you in the front.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: friends-betrayal

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#11

“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: saint-sinner

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#12

“Hearts are made to be broken.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

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#13

“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays

tags: love, romance

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#14

“With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

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#15

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”
― Oscar Wilde (attributed to)

tags: classic-insult

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#16

“To define is to limit.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: dandy, lord-henry-wotton, wilde

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#17

“I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: reading

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#18

“I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: humor, taste

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#19

“I have nothing to declare except my genius.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: humor

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#20

“No good deed goes unpunished.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: humor

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#21

“The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#22

“Every woman is a rebel.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: women-rebel

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#23

“Some things are more precious because they don't last long.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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#24

“The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: humor-suspense

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#25

“There is no sin except stupidity.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything

tags: sin-stupidity

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#26

“Life is too short to learn German”
― Oscar Wilde

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#27

“I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.”
― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

tags: advice, epigram, humor

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#28

“The basis of optimism is sheer terror.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: optimism

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#29

“The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: manners, wit

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#30

“Illusion is the first of all pleasures”
― Voltaire

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