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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: reminding
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: heart, importance, inspiration, secret, the-little-prince
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: inspirational
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    J.K. Rowling
    “It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumbledore knew - and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, and so did my parents - that there was all the difference in the world.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
    tags: inspirational
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “People have forgotten this truth," the fox said. "But you mustn’t forget it. You become responsible forever for what you’ve tamed. You’re responsible for your rose.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: adults, antoine-de-saint-exupery, children, philosophy, the-little-prince
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “It is such a mysterious place, the land of tears.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: the-little-prince
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    Jane Austen
    “Angry people are not always wise.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: anger, jane-austen, wisdom
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    Jane Austen
    “Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.”
    ― Jane Austen
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    Jane Austen
    “Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: jane-austen, lizzie, pride-and-prejudice
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    Jane Austen
    “Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.”
    ― Jane Austen
    tags: humor, jane-austen
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    Jane Austen
    “Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter.”
    ― Jane Austen, Persuasion
    tags: jane-austen, jane-austen-book-club
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    Jane Austen
    “No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: jane-austen, literature, love, northanger-abbey
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    Jane Austen
    “Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?"

    "For the liveliness of your mind, I did.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: jane-austen
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    Jane Austen
    “I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony. So, I shall end an old maid, and teach your ten children to embroider cushions and play their instruments very ill.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: jane-austen, pride-and-prejudice
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    Jane Austen
    “It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: humor, jane-austen, mr-collins
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    Jane Austen
    “The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistencies of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: jane-austen, pride-and-prejudice
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    Jane Austen
    “Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.”
    ― Jane Austen, Emma
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Anyone who has the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of [two] facts: first, that of all great writers she is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness; second, that there are twenty-five elderly gentlemen living in the neighbourhood of London who resent any slight upon her genius as if it were an insult to the chastity of their aunts.”
    ― Virginia Woolf , A Room of One’s Own
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism, self-awareness, self-determination, women
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: ataraxy, defiance, empowerment, independence, individuality, self-assurance, self-awareness, self-containment, self-determination, self-esteem, self-reliance, self-respect, self-sufficiency, self-trust, solitude
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, ideal-woman, identity, image, independence, integrity, love, men, realism, romance, self-awareness, self-determination, women
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you!”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: charlotte-bronte, heart, heartbreak, jane-eyre, love, misconceptions, obscurity, parting, plainness, poverty, soul
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “Reader, I married him.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: adoration, fidelity, love
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “Flirting is a woman’s trade, one must keep in practice.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: becoming-jane, flirting, sex
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    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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  • #30
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
    78309 likes



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