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    Neil Gaiman
    “I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
    tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton
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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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    Neil Gaiman
    “I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
    tags: books
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    Madeline Miller
    “Timidity creates nothing.”
    ― Madeline Miller, Circe
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    Albert Camus
    “In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.

    And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.”
    ― Albert Camus
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Steve Jobs
    “Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
    ― Steve Jobs
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    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    ― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You
    tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: age, fairytales, growing-up
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    Jimi Hendrix
    “I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.”
    ― Jimi Hendrix, The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold as Love
    tags: death, life
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    J.K. Rowling
    “The truth." Dumbledore sighed. "It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: truth
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    Dr. Seuss
    “Be awesome! Be a book nut!”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: books
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    Allen Ginsberg
    “I don't think there is any truth. There are only points of view. ”
    ― Allen Ginsberg
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    George R.R. Martin
    “What is honor compared to a woman's love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms . . . or the memory of a brother's smile? Wind and words. Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
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    Jennifer Estep
    “Summer queens are fine and fair, with pretty ribbons and flowers in their hair. Winter queens are cold and hard, with frosted crowns made of icy shards.”
    ― Jennifer Estep, Kill the Queen
    tags: epic, fantasy, gladiators, winter-queen
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    Madeline Miller
    “But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.”
    ― Madeline Miller, Circe
    tags: circe, constellations, daedalus, greek-mythology, love, stars
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    Madeline Miller
    “When I am dead, I charge you to mingle our ashes and bury us together.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
    tags: achilles, ashes, burried-together, dead, patrochilles, patroclus
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    Madeline Miller
    “I stopped watching for ridicule, the scorpion's tail hidden in his words. He said what he meant; he was puzzled if you did not. Some people might have mistaken this for simplicity. But is it not a sort of genius to cut always to the heart?”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
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    Lang Leav
    “Stardust

    If you came to me with a face I have not seen, with a voice I have never heard, I would still know you. Even if centuries separated us, I would still feel you. Somewhere between the sand and the stardust, through every collapse and creation, there is a pulse that echoes of you and I.


    When we leave this world, we give up all our possessions and our memories. Love is the only thing we take with us. It is all we carry from one life to the next.”
    ― Lang Leav, Memories
    tags: love, poetry
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    William Shakespeare
    “Now I see the mystery of your loneliness .”
    ― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well
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    William Shakespeare
    “All's well that ends well.”
    ― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well
    tags: shakespeare
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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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    William Shakespeare
    “The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud,if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair, if they were not cherished by our virtues.”
    ― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well
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    Tiffanie DeBartolo
    “Anything less than mad, passionate, extraordinary love is a waste of time. There are too many mediocre things in life to deal with and love shouldn't be one of them.”
    ― Tiffanie DeBartolo
    tags: dream-for-an-insomniac
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.”
    ― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
    tags: inspirational, uplifting
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    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
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    Albert Camus
    “You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, happiness, meaning-of-life
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    Albert Camus
    “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: seasons, strength, trial, triumph
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    Albert Camus
    “Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: humanity, life, mankind, mortality
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