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The Waves

by Virginia Woolf

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Andrea’s Quotes

“Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”
― William Faulkner

tags: inspirational, perfectionism, personality, potential, self-improvement

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“The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action I can recall in our association. I was alone.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

tags: friendship

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“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”
― William Faulkner

tags: advocacy, dissent, protest, truth, truth-telling

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“I am not a dark person and I don't consider myself dark.”
― Tim Burton

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“Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

tags: greatness, insanity, intelligence, sanity

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