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#1

“My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

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#2

“People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets. You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. You will never know them, but sometimes you decide to trust them.”
― Veronica Roth, Insurgent

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#3

“I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: family, friends, parties, social

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#4

“Truth is singular. Its 'versions' are mistruths.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

tags: cloud-atlas

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#5

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: truth

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#6

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

tags: charles-bayard-mitchell

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#7

“A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

tags: books, love, reading

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#8

“Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.”
― Veronica Roth, Insurgent

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#9

“Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

tags: hermione

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#10

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: encouragement, gandalf

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#11

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: truth

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#12

“The wise speak only of what they know”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

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#13

“The weak are meat the strong do eat.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

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#14

“Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

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#15

“And sometimes you didn't want to know the end… because how could the end be happy?”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

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#16

“A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

tags: art, inspirational

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#17

“Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

tags: men-women

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#18

“Show Holmes a drop of water and he would deduce the existence of the Atlantic. Show it to me and I would look for a tap. That was the difference between us.”
― Anthony Horowitz, The House of Silk

tags: brains, deduction, genius, intelligence, mental-power, sherlock-holmes

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#19

“For all men are equal at the moment of death and who are we to judge them when a much greater judge awaits?”
― Anthony Horowitz, Dům hedvábí

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#20

“It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

tags: alcohol, drinking, sobriety

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#21

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

tags: book, inspirational

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#22

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: inspirational, love

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#23

“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

tags: compassion, life, suffering

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#24

“Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

tags: inspirational

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#25

“What the hell is that?" I laughed.
"It's my fox hat."
"Your fox hat?"
"Yeah, Pudge. My fox hat."
"Why are you wearing your fox hat?" I asked.
"Because no one can catch the motherfucking fox.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

tags: funny, humor

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#26

“Oh, hell,” Kelsier said. “There’s actually a God?”
“Yes.”
Kelsier decked him.
It was a good, clean punch, thrown from the shoulder while he brought his other arm up to block a counter strike.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Secret History

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#27

“Ideas are never original," Kelsier said. "Only one thing is."
"And what is that?
"Style," Kelsier said.
Then he punched Ruin across the face.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Secret History

tags: attitude, bravado, style

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#28

“I'm not really sure why. But... do you stop loving someone just because they betray you? I don't think so. That's what makes the betrayal hurt so much - pain, frustration, anger... and I still loved her. I still do.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

tags: anger, betrayal, frustration, hurt, love, pain

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#29

“Elend: I kind of lost track of time…
Breeze: For two hours?
Elend: There were books involved.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension

tags: books, humor

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#30

“A man was defined not by his flaws, but by how he overcame them.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension

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