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    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “Let everything happen to you
    Beauty and terror
    Just keep going
    No feeling is final”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke
    tags: enjoy-life, fearlessness, live-in-the-moment
    5494 likes

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    Liam Callanan
    “We're all ghosts. We all carry, inside us, people who came before us.”
    ― Liam Callanan, The Cloud Atlas
    tags: ancestors, death, ghosts, liam-callanan, the-cloud-atlas
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Be hole, be dust, be dream, be wind/Be night, be dark, be wish, be mind,/Now slip, now slide, now move unseen,/Above, beneath, betwixt, between.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
    tags: ghosts, spells
    245 likes

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    Alberto Manguel
    “At night, here in the library, the ghosts have voices.”
    ― Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night
    tags: ghosts, library
    64 likes

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    Neil Gaiman
    “I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
    tags: books
    4692 likes

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    Neil Gaiman
    “Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
    tags: choice, life, pain, pleasure
    2180 likes

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    Neil Gaiman
    “Books were safer than other people anyway.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
    tags: book-lovers, book-quotes, books, bookworms, love-for-books
    1972 likes

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    Neil Gaiman
    “That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 10: The Wake
    1150 likes

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    Neil Gaiman
    “Even nothing cannot last forever.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, American Gods
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
    tags: answers, correct, google, internet, libarary, librarian, librarians, right, search
    1067 likes

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    Neil Gaiman
    “You have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Stardust
    tags: belief
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    Neil Gaiman
    “I mean, maybe I am crazy. I mean, maybe. But if this is all there is, then I don't want to be sane.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere
    tags: insanity, sanity
    1070 likes

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    Ben Aaronovitch
    “Librarianship... it's not for the faint-hearted.”
    ― Ben Aaronovitch, A Rare Book of Cunning Device
    tags: librarian, librarianship
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    Jeanine Cummins
    “If you can't trust a librarian, who can you trust?”
    ― Jeanine Cummins, American Dirt
    tags: librarian, library-quote
    3 likes

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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke
    tags: distance, life, loneliness, qotd, sense-of-wonder, universe
    6854 likes

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    John Steinbeck
    “All great and precious things are lonely.”
    ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
    tags: loneliness
    4241 likes

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    Joseph Conrad
    “We live as we dream--alone....”
    ― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
    tags: dream, loneliness
    2489 likes

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    Joseph Conrad
    “Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.”
    ― Joseph Conrad, Chance
    tags: women
    12389 likes

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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “Magic's just science that we don't understand yet.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke
    tags: magic, science
    508 likes

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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “I don’t believe in astrology; I’m a Sagittarius and we’re skeptical.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke
    tags: astrology, attributed-no-source, humor, skepticism
    423 likes

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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “Science is the only religion of mankind.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End
    143 likes

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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “Now I'm a scientific expert; that means I know nothing about absolutely everything.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey
    tags: generalist, science
    149 likes

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  • #23
    Carl Sagan
    “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
    ― Carl Sagan
    tags: astronomer, science, writer
    8073 likes

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    Carl Sagan
    “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
    ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
    tags: science
    2111 likes

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    Carl Sagan
    “One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.”
    ― Carl Sagan
    tags: books, literacy, reading
    2372 likes

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  • #26
    Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
    “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
    tags: books, reading
    27730 likes

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    Bertrand Russell
    “There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”
    ― Bertrand Russell
    8043 likes

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    Bertrand Russell
    “The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.”
    ― Betrand Russell
    tags: happiness, realism, reality
    299 likes

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    J. Robert Oppenheimer
    “Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”
    ― J. Robert Oppenheimer
    tags: bhagavad-gita, death, destruction, nuclear-weapons
    357 likes

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  • #30
    Sylvia Plath
    “How we need another soul to cling to.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: amity, companionship, loneliness
    1953 likes



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