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Gie said:
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Twilight is absolutely fantastic. The first word up to the last keeps your imagination open. New Moon was okay, I started to hate Bella as she's so overly dramatic and self-centered. Breaking Dawn was almost as good as Twilight. Eclipse was the final
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“I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.”
― Eleven Minutes
― Eleven Minutes
“The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”
― The Alchemist
― The Alchemist
“What is a teacher? I'll tell you: it isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows.”
― The Witch of Portobello
― The Witch of Portobello
“The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. Once for all; I love her none the less because I knew it, and it had no more influence in restraining me, than if I had devoutly believed her to be human perfection .”
― Great Expectations
― Great Expectations
“Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them.”
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Paulo Coelho
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...."whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. ...more
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