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    Fran Lebowitz
    “Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
    ― Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader
    tags: advice-for-daily-living, books, reader, reading, speaking, thinking, wisdom
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    Langston Hughes
    “Life is for the living.
    Death is for the dead.
    Let life be like music.
    And death a note unsaid.”
    ― Langston Hughes, The Collected Poems
    tags: death, life, music
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    Thomas Merton
    “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
    ― Thomas Merton , No Man Is an Island
    tags: art
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    Lloyd Alexander
    “Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
    ― Lloyd Alexander
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    Bertolt Brecht
    “Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.”
    ― Bertolt Brecht
    tags: book, hunger, weapon
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
    tags: writing
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    Neil Gaiman
    “People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
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    Judith Viorst
    “Strength is the capacity to break a Hershey bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.”
    ― Judith Viorst, Love and Guilt and the Meaning of Life, Etc.
    tags: chocolate, strength
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    Jane Yolen
    “Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.”
    ― Jane Yolen, Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie & Folklore in the Literature of Childhood
    tags: childhood, disease, literature
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    Charles Lamb
    “Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.”
    ― Charles Lamb, The life, letters and writings of Charles Lamb Volume 3
    tags: friendship, nonsense
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    Samuel Lover
    “Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.”
    ― Samuel Lover, Rory O'More
    tags: motivational
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    Jules Verne
    “We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.”
    ― Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth
    tags: books, reading
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    Andy Warhol
    “Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.”
    ― Andy Warhol
    tags: criticism
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    Isabelle Eberhardt
    “Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.”
    ― Isabelle Eberhardt, The Nomad: Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt
    tags: sun-drenched, travel
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    Blaise Pascal
    “The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.”
    ― Blaise Pascal
    tags: heart, love, quip, reason
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    Blaise Pascal
    “All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
    ― Blaise Pascal, Pensées
    tags: ironic, sad
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    Blaise Pascal
    “Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”
    ― Blaise Pascal, Pensées
    tags: evil, religious-conviction
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    Blaise Pascal
    “To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.”
    ― Blaise Pascal, Pensées
    tags: philosophy
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    Blaise Pascal
    “You always admire what you really don't understand.”
    ― Blaise Pascal
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    Blaise Pascal
    “Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much.”
    ― Blaise Pascal
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    Blaise Pascal
    “Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.”
    ― Blaise Pascal, Pensées
    tags: dull, intuition, mathematical
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    Blaise Pascal
    “To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.”
    ― Blaise Pascal
    tags: philosophy
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    Blaise Pascal
    “All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of some going to war, and of others avoiding it, is the same desire in both, attended with different views. The will never takes the least step but to this object. This is the motive of every action of every man, even of those who hang themselves.”
    ― Blaise Pascal
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    Blaise Pascal
    “Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.”
    ― Blaise Pascal
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    Blaise Pascal
    “Little things comfort us because little things distress us.”
    ― Blaise Pascal, Pensées and Other Writings
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    Blaise Pascal
    “Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.”
    ― Blaise Pascal
    tags: falsehood, truth
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    Blaise Pascal
    “People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.”
    ― Blaise Pascal, De l'art de persuader
    tags: attractivenessiveness, beliefs, evidence, persuasion, prejudice, proof, subjectivity
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    Blaise Pascal
    “It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the truth.”
    ― Blaise Pascal
    tags: natural, sickness, truth
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    Blaise Pascal
    “I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.”
    ― Blaise Pascal
    tags: betrayal, frienship
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    Blaise Pascal
    “Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.”
    ― Blaise Pascal
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