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“Dogs never bite me. Just humans.”
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“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”
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“Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.”
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“I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
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“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”
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“All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk.”
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“Better to be strong than pretty and useless.”
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“I realize only one person will be damaged beyond repair if Peeta dies. Me.”
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“Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.”
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“When I am with you, we stay up all night.When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.Praise God for those two insomnias!And the difference between them.”
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“Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!”
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“You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
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“A DEFINITION NOT FOUNDIN THE DICTIONARYNot leaving: an act of trust and love,often deciphered by children”
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“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
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“Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.”
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“Was it hard?" I ask.Letting go?"Not as hard as holding on to something that wasn't real.”
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“People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.”
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“Great things happen to those who don't stop believing, trying, learning, and being grateful.”
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“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
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“You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy. So let them go, let go of them. I tie no weights to my ankles.”
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“From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.”
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“Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.”
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“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”
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“There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”
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“Of all the trees we could've hit, we had to get one that hits back.”
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“Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”
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“I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.”
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“The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.”
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“Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of.”
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“Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.”
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“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”
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“A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.”
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“Don't tell me," Jace said, "Simon's turned himself into an ocelot and you want me to do something about it before Isabelle makes him into a stole. Well, you'll have have to wait till tomorrow. I'm out of commission." He pointed at himself - he was wearing blue pajamas with a hole in the sleeve. "Look. Jammies.""Jace,"...
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“Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold . . .â€� The pillow seemed to sink a little, and Johnny died.”
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“Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever.”
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“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.”
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“The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.”
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“The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you d...
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“If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.”
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“I'm tough, I'm ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.”
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“You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.”
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“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”
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“Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.”
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“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”
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“You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”
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“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
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“Don't Gain The World & Lose Your Soul, Wisdom Is Better Than Silver Or Gold.”
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“When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time.”
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“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.”
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“It's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.”
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“Great minds are always feared by lesser minds.”
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“To be, or not to be: that is the question:Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to sufferThe slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;No more; and by a sleep to say we endThe heart-ache and the thousand natural shocksThat flesh is heir to, '...
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“I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.”
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“Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.”
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“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”
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“And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter— they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long.”
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“love the life you live.live the life you love.”
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“Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.”
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“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”
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“It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.”
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“It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.”
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“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens”
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“Every now and then I like to do as I'm told, just to confuse people.”
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“I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange...
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“You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.”
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“The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.”
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“Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.”
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“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.”
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“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a gre...
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“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.”
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“Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.”
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“Always find opportunities to make someone smile, and to offer random acts of kindness in everyday life.”
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“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.”
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“Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.”
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“My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.”
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“He was my mum and dad's best friend. He's a convicted murderer, but he's broken out of wizard prison and he's on the run. He likes to keep in touch with me, though...keep up with my news...check if I'm happy...”
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“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
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“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
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“Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.”
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“Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.”
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“And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many.”
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“Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It's like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven't seen in a long time.”
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“Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star. It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago.Maybe the star doesn't even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.”
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“Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”
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“Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.”
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“The only way that we can live, is if we grow. The only way that we can grow is if we change. The only way that we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we can become exposed is if we throw ourselves out into the open. Do it. Throw yourself.”
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“And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”
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“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cell...
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“Perhaps the greatest faculty our minds possess is the ability to cope with pain. Classic thinking teaches us of the four doors of the mind, which everyone moves through according to their need.First is the door of sleep. Sleep offers us a retreat from the world and all its pain. Sleep marks passing time, giving us dis...
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“Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.”
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“Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?”
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“Don't be so humble - you are not that great.”
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“A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.”
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“I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.”
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“My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.”
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“Winter is coming.”
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“I have come to accept the feeling of not knowing where I am going. And I have trained myself to love it. Because it is only when we are suspended in mid-air with no landing in sight, that we force our wings to unravel and alas begin our flight. And as we fly, we still may not know where we are going to. But the miracl...
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“Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.”
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“There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.”
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“A truth that's told with bad intentBeats all the lies you can invent.”
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