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    Flann O'Brien
    “A wise old owl once lived in a wood, the more he heard the less he said, the less he said the more he heard, let's emulate that wise old bird.”
    ― Flann O'Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds
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    Flann O'Brien
    “Answers do not matter so much as questions, said the Good Fairy. A good question is very hard to answer. The better the question the harder the answer. There is no answer at all to a very good question.”
    ― Flann O'Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds
    tags: questions-and-answers
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
    tags: independent-thought, self-determination, self-expression
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
    tags: intelligence, intelligent-action
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
    tags: change, fear-of-change
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: death, sleep
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
    tags: truth, values
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
    tags: aspirations, castles-in-the-air, dreams, foundations, futility, goals, security, work-lost
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
    tags: books
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
    tags: environment, exploration, explore, land, mysterious, mystery, nature, sea, unexplorable, unfathomable, wild, wilderness, wildness
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
    tags: nature
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
    tags: cost, life, price, time, value
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
    tags: afford, let-alone, natural, rich, wealth
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
    tags: conformity, fashion, generation
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
    tags: desire, inspirational, make-a-difference, motivation
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
    tags: death, life, living, nature
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
    tags: books, literature, reading, words
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: affection, amity, love
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    “No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.”
    ― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
    tags: masks
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    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    “Love, whether newly born or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, that it overflows upon the outward world.”
    ― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
    tags: love
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    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    “I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!”
    ― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
    tags: image, self
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    Virginia Woolf
    “He thought her beautiful, believed her impeccably wise; dreamed of her, wrote poems to her, which, ignoring the subject, she corrected in red ink.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “I used to analyze myself down to the last thread, used to compare myself with others, recalled all the smallest glances, smiles and words of those to whom I’d tried to be frank, interpreted everything in a bad light, laughed viciously at my attempts ‘to be like the rest’ –and suddenly, in the midst of my laughing, I’d give way to sadness, fall into ludicrous despondency and once again start the whole process all over again – in short, I went round and round like a squirrel on a wheel.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it ... one must have the courage to dare.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
    tags: dare, power
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
    tags: denial, self-awareness
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