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#241

“Humanity lives in its fiction.”
― Blaise Cendrars

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#242

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
― Frederick Douglass

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#244

“For to know a man's library is, in some measure, to know his mind.”
― Geraldine Brooks, March

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#245

“If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims

tags: criticism

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#246

“There was no harm in taking aim, even if the target was a dream.”
― John Knowles, A Separate Peace

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#247

“Every life has death and every light has shadow. Be content to stand in the light and let the shadow fall where it will.”
― Mary Stewart, The Hollow Hills

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#248

“Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.”
― Aisha Tyler

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#249

“ما تبحث عنه يبحث عنك”
― جلال الدين الرومي

tags: inspirational, life

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#250

“Recipes are just descriptions of one person’s take on one moment in time. They’re not rules.”
― Mario Batali

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#251

“The weariest nights, the longest days, sooner or later must perforce come to an end.”
― Baroness Emmuska Orczy

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#252

“لا يمكننا أن نمزح مع الاستعارات فالحب قد يولد من استعارة واحدة ... ميلان كونديرا”
― ميلان كونديرا, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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#253

“As soon as I take down her book and open it...My skies rise higher and hang younger stars.”
― Eavan Boland

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#254

“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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#255

“If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. It transcends all barriers.”
― Ed Sullivan

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#256

“و كن من أنتَ حيث تكون
و احمل عبءَ قلبِكَ وحدهُ”
― محمود درويش

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#257

“Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

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#258

“Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don’t freeze up.”
― Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again

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#259

“You do have a story inside you; it lies articulate and waiting to be written — behind your silence and your suffering.”
― Anne Rice

tags: anne-rice, pandora

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#260

“Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.”
― Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting

tags: elegance, philosophy, simplicity

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#261

“We are all worthy of one another.”
― Edward P. Jones, The Known World

tags: love, worthiness

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#262

“If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.”
― Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

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#263

“are you breathing, are you lucky enough
to be breathing”
― Hettie Jones

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#264

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

tags: books, classics, literature, meaning, reading, words

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#265

“Love is a capricious creature which desires everything and can be contented with almost nothing.”
― Madeleine de Scudéry

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#266

“I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.”
― Nadine Gordimer

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#267

“Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.”
― Jonathan Swift

tags: imagination

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#268

“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

tags: humor, laughter

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#269

“You have everything needed for the extravagant journey that is your life.”
― Carlos Castaneda

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#270

“In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.”
― Isaac Asimov

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#271

“One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.”
― Stephen Hawking

tags: philosophy, science

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