“When did we see each other face-to-face? Not until you saw into my cracks and I saw into yours. Before that, we were just looking at ideas of each other, like looking at your window shade bu...”
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“It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them.”
“We humans are so tortured by not properly guessing what will make us happy.”
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“I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”
“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
“We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.”
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“Sometimes a book isn't a heartbreaking work of staggering genius. Sometimes it's the only story you knew how to tell.”
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“May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.”
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“For he who lives more lives than one More deaths than one must die.”
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“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
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“One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.”
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“Cats don't need to be possessed; they're evil on their own.”
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“With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.”
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“That's the amazing thing about music: there's a song for every emotion. Can you imagine a world with no music? It would suck.”
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“There are times I think I am not sure of something which I absolutely know.”
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“There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience,...”
“There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.”
“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”
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“I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.”
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“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
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“I pity you all... Most of you will die---scratch that---ALL of you.”
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“In spite of my suffering, at the thought that I was sure to end up by killing myself, I cried aloud and burst into tears.”
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“I am dying, Egypt, dying.”
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“We need never be without hope because we can never be irreparably broken.”
“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.”
“My country, France, my homeland, my land is again invaded by an overpopulation of foreigners, especially Muslims.”
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“All a girl really wants is for one guy to prove to her that they are not all the same.”
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“Your children need your presence more than your presents.”
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“The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.”
“When one doubts accomplishment is impossible then death occurs before birth.”
“I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have tro...”
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“There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them. But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.”
“We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.”
“A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.”
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“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”
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“People die all the time. Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly, and if possible, sincerely. It's too easy not to make t...”
“In the midst of life, we are in death.”
“As soon as you see 'Dame' in front of someone's name, you get nervous, but Dame Maggie Smith is the most wonderfully gentle woman I have ever met. She never had a bad word to say.”
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“I'm obsessed with shopping. I'll get these urges to buy, like to shop for stuff on the Internet. I search for all kinds of weird gizmos I could get.”
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“Much of my life had been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who loved me, so I knew what Augustus was doing. You clench your teeth. You look up. You tell yourself that if they s...”
“I can't actually wrap my mind around it easily - I can't really visualize what 2 million books looks like... So I try to keep it real for myself by focusing on individual anecdotes of how my...”
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“Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.”
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“It's bullshit to think of friendship and romance as being different. They're not. They're just variations of the same love. Variations of the same desire to be close.”
“We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.”
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“I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.”
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“Aslan: You doubt your value. Don't run from who you are.”
“Listening will never get anyone in trouble but opening their mouth will.”
“Funny is funny. If it's funny enough to women, it will be funny to men. I think that's been proven by Broad City and Amy Schumer. They're killing it.”
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