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    Naguib Mahfouz
    “I believe in life and in people. I feel obliged to advocate their highest ideals as long as I believe them to be true. I also see myself compelled to revolt against ideals I believe to be false, since recoiling from rebellion would be a form of treason”
    ― Naguib Mahfouz, The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street
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    Jack Kerouac
    “One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
    ― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
    tags: dharma, simplicity, writing
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    Pablo Neruda
    “As if you were on fire from within.

    The moon lives in the lining of your skin.”
    ― Pablo Neruda
    tags: beauty, inner-beauty, love, passion
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    Leila Aboulela
    “All through life there were distinctions - toilets for men, toilets for women; clothes for men, clothes for women - then, at the end, the graves are identical.”
    ― Leila Aboulela, Minaret
    tags: death, gender-equality, life
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    Evelyn Waugh
    “[Change is] the only evidence of life.”
    ― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited
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    Evelyn Waugh
    “... To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.”
    ― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited
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    Evelyn Waugh
    “No one is ever holy without suffering.”
    ― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited
    tags: holy, suffering
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    “I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.”
    ― Hafiz of Shiraz
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    Becca Fitzpatrick
    “You're a psychopath."
    "I prefer creative.”
    ― Becca Fitzpatrick, Crescendo
    tags: banter, euphemism, labels
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    Haruki Murakami
    “With each passing moment I'm becoming part of the past. There is no future for me, just the past steadily accumulating.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: Twenty-Four Stories
    tags: accumulation, future, moments, past
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    Haruki Murakami
    “There are three ways you can get along with a girl: one, shut up and listen to what she has to say; two, tell her you like what she's wearing; and three, treat her to really good food...If you do all that and still don't get the results you want, better give up.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: Twenty-Four Stories
    tags: dating, girls
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
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    George Orwell
    “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
    ― George Orwell
    tags: freedom-of-speech, liberty
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    Samuel Beckett
    “The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh. Let us not then speak ill of our generation, it is not any unhappier than its predecessors.”
    ― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
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    Thomas Paine
    “The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”
    ― Thomas Paine, A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal on the Affairs of North America
    tags: education, experience, wisdom
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    Alberto Moravia
    “When you aren't sincere you need to pretend, and by pretending you end up believing yourself; that's the basic principle of every faith.”
    ― Alberto Moravia, The Time of Indifference
    tags: belief, faith, insincerity, pretense, religion
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    Shannon L. Alder
    “There are no coincidences in life. What person that wandered in and out of your life was there for some purpose, even if they caused you harm. Sometimes, it doesn’t make sense the short periods of time we get with people, or the outcomes from their choices. However, if you turn it over to God he promises that you will see the big picture in the hereafter. Nothing is too small to be a mistake.”
    ― Shannon Alder
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    Shannon L. Alder
    “There is no perfection, only beautiful versions of brokenness.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: beautiful, broken, brokeness, change, connection, growing, learning, living, love, loving, perfection, perfectionism, seeing-people, souls, transformation, understanding
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    Joseph Roth
    “That was how things were back then. Anything that grew took its time growing, and anything that perished took a long time to be forgotten. But everything that had once existed left its traces, and people lived on memories just as they now live on the ability to forget quickly and emphatically.”
    ― Joseph Roth, The Radetzky March
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    Warsan Shire
    “My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude.”
    ― Warsan Shire
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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
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    Clive James
    “As the late Edward W Said wrote after the attack on the World Trade Center, ‘Western humanism is not enough: we need a universal humanism.’ I agree with that. The question is how to get it, and my own view is that it can’t be had unless we raise our demands on ourselves a long way beyond decorating our lives with enough cultivation to make the pursuit of ambition look civilized.”
    ― Clive James, Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts
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    Clive James
    “Art is the outward integration inspired by the artist's inner disintegration.”
    ― Clive James
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    Jack Kerouac
    “I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.”
    ― Jack Kerouac
    tags: on-the-road, sal-paradise
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    Lauren DeStefano
    “If you've never been afraid, you haven't had your moment of bravery just yet”
    ― Lauren DeStefano, Perfect Ruin
    tags: fear, life
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    Lisa Kleypas
    “A long time ago I learned not to explain things to people. It misleads them into thinking they're entitled to know everything I do. —[Sara]”
    ― Lisa Kleypas, Dreaming of You
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.”
    ― Goethe
    tags: community, connection, friendship, goethe, inspirational, love
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “Nothing is worth more than this day.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    tags: carpe-diem
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    Warsan Shire
    “At the end of the day, it isn’t where I came from. Maybe home is somewhere I’m going and never have been before.”
    ― Warsan Shire
    tags: day, end, home, warsan-shire
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