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    Dodie Smith
    “Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.”
    ― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
    tags: baths, deeds, depression
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    “Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.”
    ― John Russell
    tags: wisdom
    296 likes

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    E.M. Forster
    “Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.”
    ― E.M. Forster, A Room With A View
    419 likes

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    Dodie Smith
    “I have noticed that rooms which are extra clean feel extra cold”
    ― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.”
    ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
    3637 likes

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    Aldous Huxley
    “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929
    tags: fact, ignorance, truth
    10546 likes

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    Dodie Smith
    “Oh, it is wonderful to wake up in the morning with things to look forward to!”
    ― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
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    Banana Yoshimoto
    “Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.”
    ― Banana Yoshimoto
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts.”
    ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
    338 likes

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    Joanne Harris
    “I could do with a bit more excess. From now on I'm going to be immoderate--and volatile--I shall enjoy loud music and lurid poetry. I shall be rampant.”
    ― Joanne Harris, Chocolat
    tags: excess, music, poetry, rampant, volatile
    177 likes

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    Marcel Duchamp
    “I force myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.”
    ― Marcel Duchamp
    tags: art, creative-process, creativity
    300 likes

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  • #12
    Elbert Hubbard
    “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
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  • #13
    William Penn
    “In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.”
    ― William Penn
    tags: debate, inspirational, justice, truth
    136 likes

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  • #14
    George Orwell
    “In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
    ― George Orwell
    tags: truth
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  • #15
    Coco Chanel
    “In order to be irreplaceacle, one must always be different.”
    ― Coco Chanel
    tags: individuality
    2175 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: humor, taste
    3182 likes

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  • #17
    Muriel Barbery
    “If you have but one friend, make sure you choose her well.”
    ― Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog
    tags: friendship
    278 likes

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    Muriel Barbery
    “I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.”
    ― Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog
    tags: books, language, literature, reading, words
    460 likes

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    John Lennon
    “I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?”
    ― John Lennon
    tags: beatles, dragons, dreamers, dreaming, dreams, fairies, faith, mythology, nightmares, reality, truth
    8604 likes

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  • #20
    Pablo Picasso
    “Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone”
    ― Pablo Picasso
    tags: art, procrastination
    1670 likes

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    Banana Yoshimoto
    “People aren't overcome by situations or outside forces. Defeat comes from within.”
    ― Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen
    362 likes

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    Robert Girardi
    “His brain and his heart knew this, but he couldn’t stop himself, and the razor of his conscience lent the undeniable thrill of pain to the act.”
    ― Robert Girardi, The Pirate's Daughter: A Novel
    tags: consciousness
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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
    6690 likes

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    E.M. Forster
    “The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.”
    ― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View
    tags: honesty, integrity, lies
    121 likes

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    A.S. Byatt
    “My Solitude is my Treasure, the best thing I have. I hesitate to go out. If you opened the little gate, I would not hop away—but oh how I sing in my gold cage.”
    ― A.S. Byatt, Possession
    tags: introversion, peace, solitude
    171 likes

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    L.M. Montgomery
    “Why must people kneel down to pray? If I really wanted to pray I’ll tell you what I'd do. I'd go out into a great big field all alone or in the deep, deep woods and I'd look up into the sky—up—up—up—into that lovely blue sky that looks as if there was no end to its blueness. And then I'd just feel a prayer.”
    ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
    999 likes

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    L.M. Montgomery
    “True friends are always together in spirit.”
    ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
    tags: friends, friendship, together, together-in-spirit, true-friends
    2529 likes

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    Virginia Woolf
    “Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: freedom, women, writing
    12718 likes

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    Virginia Woolf
    “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: food, love
    4388 likes

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    Virginia Woolf
    “Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
    tags: literature, reading, writing
    617 likes



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