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    C.S. Lewis
    “We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory
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    Terry Eagleton
    “The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name.”
    ― Terry Eagleton
    tags: academia, education, humanities, university
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “My life is very monotonous," the fox said. "I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And, in consequence, I am a little bored.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
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    Gustave Flaubert
    “He was bored now when Emma suddenly began to sob on his breast; and his heart, like the people who can only stand a certain amount of music, became drowsy through indifference to the vibrations of a love whose subtleties he could no longer distinguish.”
    ― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
    tags: boredom, crying, indifference, love, sadness
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    “The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.”
    ― Saul Steinberg
    tags: boredom, creativity
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    Alexander McCall Smith
    “Do you realise that people die of boredom in London suburbs? It's the second biggest cause of death amongs the English in general. Sheer boredom...”
    ― Alexander McCall Smith, Friends, Lovers, Chocolate
    tags: boredom, death, england, london, suburbia
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    John Donne
    “More than kisses, letters mingle souls.”
    ― John Donne
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    Lorraine Zago Rosenthal
    “I don't think much about guys from the past. I'm glad I knew them, but there's a reason they didn't make it into my future.”
    ― Lorraine Zago Rosenthal
    tags: future, guys, lorraine-zago-rosenthal, love, move-on, past
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    Jess C. Scott
    “When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.”
    ― Jess C. Scott, The Intern
    tags: desire, emotion, friendship, honesty, imagination, individuality, life, love, passion, reality, relationships, romance, truth, wisdom, wise-words
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    Lisa Kleypas
    “I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together.”
    ― Lisa Kleypas, Blue-Eyed Devil
    tags: love, relationships, romance
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    C.G. Jung
    “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
    tags: chemistry, relationships
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    Donald Miller
    “When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.”
    ― Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
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    André Gide
    “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
    ― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves
    tags: life, love
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    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: inspirational, love
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
    tags: love
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    William Shakespeare
    “Love all, trust a few,
    Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
    Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
    Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
    But never tax'd for speech.”
    ― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well
    tags: do-wrong, love, trust, wrong
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
    tags: essential, happiness, love
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    Marilyn Monroe
    “If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, girls, love
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    Marilyn Monroe
    “The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, love
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    Anaïs Nin
    “Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
    ― Anais Nin
    tags: death, love
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    Jane Austen
    “There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: friendship, love
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    Alfred Tennyson
    “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”
    ― Alfred Tennyson
    tags: friendship, love
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: love, ordinary, people
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    Cassandra Clare
    “You could have had anything else in the world, and you asked for me."
    She smiled up at him. Filthy as he was, covered in blood and dirt, he was the most beautiful thing she'd ever seen.
    "But I don't want anything else in the world.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, City of Glass
    tags: clary-fray, jace-wayland, love
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    Jarod Kintz
    “Divorce is the second worst event in a person’s life. The worst event, of course, is marriage.”
    ― Jarod Kintz, This Book Has No Title
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    Aristotle
    “No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: aristotle, genius, great-minds, madness
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    William Shakespeare
    “Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Hamlet
    tags: madness
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    Janet Evanovich
    “I looked over at him. "Is that a proposal?"

    There was total silence for a couple beats. "I'm not sure. It just popped out."

    "Let me know when you're sure."

    "Would you say yes?" Morelli asked.

    "I'm not sure.”
    ― Janet Evanovich, Fearless Fourteen
    tags: proposal
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    Jane Austen
    “It was absolutely necessary to interrupt him now.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: humour, proposal
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    Nicholas Sparks
    “You're going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it's always their actions you should judge them by. It's actions, not words, that matter.”
    ― Nicholas Sparks, The Rescue
    tags: friends, judgement
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