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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Man verdirbt einen Jüngling am sichersten, wenn man ihn anleitet, den Gleichdenkenden höher zu achten, als den Andersdenkenden.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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    Philippa Gregory
    “Your trouble, William, is that you have no ambition. You don't see that there is in life only ever one goal.' 'And what is that?'
    More', George said simply. 'Just more of anything. More of everything.”
    ― Philippa Gregory (The Other Boleyn Girl), The Other Boleyn Girl
    tags: the-other-boleyn-girl
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: creation, god, humor, man
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: saint-sinner
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I can resist anything except temptation.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: temptation
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Every woman is a rebel.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: women-rebel
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    Oscar Wilde
    “To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: humour
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I don’t say we all ought to misbehave. But we ought to look as if we could”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
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    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor
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    Douglas Adams
    “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
    tags: life, navigation
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    “There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”
    ― Linda Grayson
    tags: chocolate, friendship
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  • #16
    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
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    Lemony Snicket
    “If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
    tags: humor, talking, writers
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    Ally Condie
    “Now that I've found the way to fly, which direction should I go into the night?”
    ― Ally Condie, Matched
    tags: fantasy
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    Dylan Thomas
    “Do not go gentle into that good night,
    Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
    Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
    ― Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
    tags: death-and-dying, inspirational, philosophy, poetry
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    Kai Meyer
    “Manchmal", sagte sie, "gehen zwei Menschen aneinander vorbei, sehen sich kurz in die Augen, und alles, was bleibt, ist ein Wunsch. Ein Traum von dem, was hätte geschehen können. Und dann gehen sie mit jedem Schritt weiter voneinander fort und von all ihren Träumen.”
    ― Kai Meyer, Arkadien fällt
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    Markus Zusak
    “Sometimes people are beautiful.
    Not in looks.
    Not in what they say.
    Just in what they are.”
    ― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger
    tags: beauty, life
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    Markus Zusak
    “The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
    tags: boys, hate, love
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    Markus Zusak
    “I think she ate a salad and some soup.
    And loneliness.
    She ate that, too. ”
    ― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger
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    Markus Zusak
    “She even touches Jimmy's face on the photos, and I see what it is to love someone like Milla loved that man. Her fingertips are made of love.”
    ― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger
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    Markus Zusak
    “She places her hands around my neck and rests her head on my shoulder. I can smell the sex on her, and my hope is that she can smell the love on me.”
    ― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger
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    Kate Cann
    “Without stories, how do we know who we are? How can we imagine who we can be?”
    ― Kate Cann
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    Anne Brontë
    “But he who dares not grasp the thorn
    Should never crave the rose.”
    ― Anne Bronte
    tags: beauty, defenses, roses, thorns
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    Patrick Ness
    “Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both.”
    ― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls
    tags: a-monster-calls
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    Patrick Ness
    “Stories are the wildest things of all, the monster rumbled. Stories chase and bite and hunt.”
    ― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls
    tags: fiction, stories
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    Steve Toltz
    “I think that's the real loss of innocence: the first time you glimpse the boundaries that will limit your potential.”
    ― Steve Toltz, A Fraction of the Whole
    tags: self-awareness, self-discovery
    156 likes



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