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Link	Quote	Tags	Author
52a093c	I bet you could sometimes find all the mysteries of the universe in someone's hand.	universe true love	Benjamin Alire Sáenz
9ac6891	No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.	true reassuring	Virginia Woolf
8d2fa6d	It's much easier not to know things sometimes.	true	Stephen Chbosky
455588e	Be silent and safe -- silence never betrays you	true silence poetry friends trust work motivational inspirational praise advice judgement safety	John Boyle O'Reilly
b40ec48	Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn't fade and the scars don't heal, and it's too damned late.	pain true true-love love scars	Jonathan Tropper
dd16247	I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things.	true love can-t i augustus-waters augustus why have	John Green
caeab61	"People who have a religion should be glad, for not everyone has the gift of believing in heavenly things. You don't necessarily even have to be afraid of punishment after death; purgatory, hell, and heaven are things that a lot of people can't accept, but still a religion, it doesn't matter which, keeps a person on the right path. It isn't the fear of God but the upholding of one's own honor and conscience. How noble and good everyone could be if, every evening before falling asleep, they were to recall to their minds the events of the while day and consider exactly what has been good and bad. Then, without realizing it you try to improve yourself at the start of each new day; of course, you achieve quite a lot in the course of time. Anyone can do this, it costs nothing and is certainly very helpful. Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by experience that: "A quiet conscience mades one strong!"	true people life-lessons life truth wisdom inspirational wisdom-quote experience consciousness	Anne Frank
4efd0ca	Jessica. For god's sake," he said. "Allow me to do at least one common courtesy for you. In spite ow what 'women's lib' teaches you, chivalry does not imply that women are powerless. On the contrary, chivalry is an admission of women's superiority. An acknowledgment o	enlightenment true love inspirational	Beth Fantaskey
643672b	And people who don't dream, who don't have any kind of imaginative life, they must... they must go nuts. I can't imagine that.	true imagination inspirational dreaming	Stephen King
cb03685	Life is sufferin	true suffering god love inspirational humility	Jordan B. Peterson
f4cd4f3	When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a colouring book, with the inside not yet completed.	someone-like-you true inspirational	Sarah Dessen
4c98217	One can never have enough socks	harry-potter true humor	J.K. Rowling
d13782a	What on earth would I do if four bears came into my camp? Why, I would die of course. Literally shit myself lifeless.	true funny camping hiking camp bear shit attack trail	Bill Bryson
5fc41e7	The world expected girls to pluck and primp and put on heels. Meanwhile, boys dressed in rumpled T-shirts and baggy pants and misplace their combs, and yet you were suppose to fall at their feet? Unacceptable.	true men world	Libba Bray
1910cc2	It's such a silly little thing, the heart.	true humor heart ned ned-vizzini vizzini quotes	Ned Vizzini
2735efa	Nothing is so hard that it can't be found by searching.	true	Kim Harrison
5cd66a5	This century will be called 's century. He was one of the greatest men who ever touched this globe. He has explained more of the phenomena of life than all of the religious teachers. . Think of the men who replied to him. Only a few years ago there was no person too ignorant to successfully answer , and the more ignorant he was the more cheerfully he undertook the task. He was held up to the ridicule, the scorn and contempt of the Christian world, and yet when he died, England was proud to put his dust with that of her noblest and her grandest. conquered the intellectual world, and his doctrines are now accepted facts. His light has broken in on some of the clergy, and the greatest man who to-day occupies the pulpit of one of the orthodox churches, Henry Ward Beecher, is a believer in the theories of --a man of more genius than all the clergy of that entire church put together. ...The church teaches that man was created perfect, and that for six thousand years he has degenerated. demonstrated the falsity of this dogma. He shows that man has for thousands of ages steadily advanced; . Religion and science are enemies. One is a superstition; the other is a fact. One rests upon the false, the other upon the true. One is the result of fear and faith, the other of investigation and reason.	evolution myth true nature reason fear science atonement origin-of-species orthodox-christianity false clergy garden-of-eden original-sin orthodox biology charles-darwin fact investigation geology dogma survival-of-the-fittest darwin genius england ignorance superstition	Robert Green Ingersoll
edc70fc	Most true things are kind of corny, don't you think? But we make them more sophisticated out of sheer embarrassment.	true embarrassment	Michel Faber
48c2d82	"A great battle is a terrible thing," the old knight said, "but in the midst of blood and carnage, there is sometimes also beauty, beauty that could break your heart."	struggle true strength heartbreak hope hope-for-the-hopeless hopefulness keep-the-faith struggling george-r-r-martin warriors hardship strength-through-adversity knights searching dead	George R.R. Martin
431a736	"Celaena?" Sam asked into the dark. "Should I worry about going to sleep?" She blinked, then laughed under her breath. At least Sam took her threats somewhat seriously."	true sarcastic-humor	Sarah J. Maas
f7b2d3b	the unexpected moment [is] always sweeter.	love-story true romance quote the-viscount-who-loved-me	Julia Quinn
215085e	Isn't it always the things that you can't see that hurt you?	true sad	Katie McGarry
102c1fd	You have to find what's good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now. Looking back makes you competitive. And, age is not a competitive issue.	competitive-issue true good life beautiful	Mitch Albom
461c04b	icen que a lo largo de nuestra vida tenemos dos grandes amores; uno con el que te casas o vives para siempre, puede que el padre o la madre de tus hijos, esa persona con la que consigues la compenetracion maxima para estar el resto de tu vida junto a ella. Y dicen que hay un segundo gran amor, una persona que perderas siempre. Alguien con quien naciste conectado, tan conectado que las fuerzas de la quimica escapan a la razon y te impedira, siempre, alcanzar un final feliz. Hasta que cierto dia dejaras de intentarlo. Te rendiras y buscaras a esa otra persona que acabaras encontrando. Pero te aseguro que no pasaras una sola noche sin necesitar otro beso suyo, o tan siquiera discutir una vez mas. Todos sabeis de que estoy hablando, porque mientras estabais leyendo esto os ha venido su nombre a la cabeza. Te libraras de el o de ella, dejaras de sufrir, conseguiras encontrar la paz (le sustituiras por la calma), pero te aseguro que no pasara un dia en que desees que estuviera aqui para perturbarte... Porque, a veces, se desprende mas energia discutiendo con alguien a quien amas que haciendo el amor con alguien a quien aprecias.	true quote love coelho book tragic verdad sad	Paulo Coelho
d141d46	Well, as you can plainly see, the possibilities are endless like meandering paths in a great big beautiful garden.	true true-to-life	William S. Burroughs
61310fa	Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye.	true love	William Shakespeare
f3ae853	"She shook her head and whispered, "No. No! That can't be true. Impossible!" "You think things have to be possible? Things have to be true!"	true truth possible	Philip Pullman
ce313c3	It is easy to be wise after the event.	true wisdom	Arthur Conan Doyle
d99debc	Beauty's not only skin deep. Just because a person is beautiful doesn't mean there's no soul beneath. Doesn't mean that person hasn't suffered like everyone else, doesn't mean they don't hope to still be a good human being in an awful world. (Gabriel)	true life perspective judgement	Rachel Cohn
c86d402	We read the pagan sacred books with profit and delight. With myth and fable we are ever charmed, and find a pleasure in the endless repetition of the beautiful, poetic, and absurd. We find, in all these records of the past, philosophies and dreams, and efforts stained with tears, of great and tender souls who tried to pierce the mystery of life and death, to answer the eternal questions of the Whence and Whither, and vainly sought to make, with bits of shattered glass, a mirror that would, in very truth, reflect the face and form of Nature's perfect self. These myths were born of hopes, and fears, and tears, and smiles, and they were touched and colored by all there is of joy and grief between the rosy dawn of birth, and death's sad night. They clothed even the stars with passion, and gave to gods the faults and frailties of the sons of men. In them, the winds and waves were music, and all the lakes, and streams, and springs,--the mountains, woods and perfumed dells were haunted by a thousand fairy forms. They thrilled the veins of Spring with tremulous desire; made tawny Summer's billowed breast the throne and home of love; filled Autumns arms with sun-kissed grapes, and gathered sheaves; and pictured Winter as a weak old king who felt, like Lear upon his withered face, Cordelia's tears. These myths, though false, are beautiful, and have for many ages and in countless ways, enriched the heart and kindled thought. But if the world were taught that all these things are true and all inspired of God, and that eternal punishment will be the lot of him who dares deny or doubt, the sweetest myth of all the Fable World would lose its beauty, and become a scorned and hateful thing to every brave and thoughtful man.	winter perfection shakespeare true grief doubt passion nature joy fear past death dreams music hope life love truth hateful philosophies religion-myths scorn sacred-books brave tender fairy haunted pagan king-lear spring woods fable poetic mountains lake birth smiles deny eternity autumn punishment gods effort tears questions mystery beautiful throne summer thought delight william-shakespeare pleasure	Robert G. Ingersoll
b234b17	"It's true though: time moves in its own special way in the middle of the night," the bartender says, loudly striking a book match and lighting a cigarette. "You can't fight it."	time true	Haruki Murakami
7eaebcd	I thought if I told no one it might not be true.	true secret truth tell wide-sargasso-sea	Jean Rhys
bfc798f	"A letter?" repeated Professor McGonagall faintly, sitting back down on the wall. "Really Dumbledore, you think you can explain all this in a letter? These people will never understand him! He'll be famous--a legend--I wouldn't be surprised if today was known as Harry Potter day in the future--there will be books written about Harry--every child in our world will know his name! ..."	true	J.K. Rowling
acb59f7	Funerals, I had decided, are for the living.	true funerals	John Green
d532382	That's the thing about pain, it demands to be felt.	true loving hardship	John Green
361c4ea	I know what happens a the end of falling-landing	true love landing	John Green
52e328f	That speaking the words, even if true, had little power to change the inevitable or even make him feel much better.	words true change speaking feel power	Nicholas Sparks
4b2a2ce	I can never resist telling people good news. I mean, why not brighten someone else's life too?	true good people day good-news	Sophie Kinsella
8e63423	A hound will die for you, but never lie to you.	true loyalty	George R.R. Martin
a3df49d	They told me that nothing was a sin, just a poor life choice. Poor impulse control. That nothing is evil. Any concept of right versus wrong, according to them, is merely a cultural construct relative to one specific time and place. They said that if anything should force us to modify our personal behavior it should be our allegiance to a social contract, not some vague, externally imposed threat of flaming punishment.	true heaven fun funny motivational humor life inspirational hell	chuck palahniuk
011953a	He has reverted, in other words, back into a pure balls-to-the-wall nerdism rivaled only by his early game-coding days back in Seattle. The sheer depth and involution of the current nerdism binge would be hard to convey to anyone. Intellectually, he is juggling half a dozen lit torches, Ming vases, live puppies, and running chainsaws. In this frame of mind he cannot bring himself to give a shit about the fact that this incredibly powerful billionaire has gone to a lot of trouble to come and F2F with him.	true	Neal Stephenson
d8ebed7	There exists a limit to the force even the most powerful may apply without destroying themselves. Judging this limit is the true artistry of government. Misuse of power is the fatal sin. The law cannot be a tool of vengeance, never a hostage, nor a fortification against the martyrs it has created. You cannot threaten any individual and escape the consequences.	true tool fatal limit law force government consequences vengeance sin	Frank Herbert
72e6e39	I had another reason for seeking Him, for trying to espy His face, a professional one. God and literature are conflated in my mind. Why this is, I'm not sure. Perhaps because great books seem heavensent. Perhaps because I know that each nove is a puny but very valiant attempt at godlike behavior. Perhaps because there is no difference between the finest poetry and most transcendent mysticism. Perhaps because writers like Thomas Merton, who are able to enter the realm of the spirit and come away with fine, lucid prose. Perhaps because of more secular writers, like John Steinbeck, whose every passage, it seems to me, peals with religiousity and faith. It once occured to me that literature -- all art really -- is either talking to people about God, or talking to God about people.	true writing spirituality	Paul Quarrington
3f828f0	Only those who row the boat make waves	true wisdom inspirational	Christina Dodd
3bb5862	Could a love of that magnitude die? If it was true love, could it ever die? Was there such a thing as true love?	true love	Mary Balogh
b6b620a	Life without any wonder left in it is flat and stale.	true truth real-life realistic smart	David Eddings
5da572f	How true is the saying that the very highest in rank are always the most simple and kindly. It is from you half-and-half sort of people that you get pomposity and vulgarity	true vulgarity	H. Rider Haggard
aaa48c3	She wanted to get some personal profit out of things, and she rejected as useless all that did not contribute to the immediate desires of her heart, being of a temperament more sentimental than artistic, looking for emotions, not landscapes.	true emotion beauty heart love selfish sentimental useless lust desire sad	Gustave Flaubert
bfba2b0	I once knew of a minstrel who bragged of having had a thousand women, one time each. He would never know what I knew, that to have one woman a thousand times, and each time find in her a different delight, is far better. I knew now what gleamed in the eyes of old couples when they stared at each other across a room...My familiarity with her was a more potent love elixir than any potion sold by a hedge-witch in the market.	time man woman true men women change love truth discover elixir familiar potion sincere find know charm sincerity playboy knowledge delight minstrel	Robin Hobb
8c1f0b3	"I wish creatures wouldn't be so easily offended!", "You'll get used to it in time," said the Caterpillar; and it put the hookah into its mouth and began smoking again."	true	Lewis Carroll
7ccb4d0	Everything turns on grasping and expressing the True, not only as Substance, but equally as Subject.	true substance	Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
9fed41e	The hunger inside us must be fed to be controlled.	true	Darren Shan
3cd0ce5	La verdadera amistad, pensaban, resiste el paso del tiempo, es desinteresada y generosa, no pide nada a cambio, solo lealtad.	true kindness no-expectations	Isabel Allende
6afefed	[...] and I switched to English literature, where so many frustrated poets end as pipe-smoking teachers in tweeds.	true ironic	Vladimir Nabokov
42df2b0	"Sim sighed. "like Ross always said: Wish in one hand,shit in the other,and see which hand fills up first."	true shit wish	Keith Gray
5e07d38	...the one certain thing in life is that no one can make the truth untrue simply because it hurts.	true morality inspirational-quotes philosophy truth	David Weber
cf51f2c	If they succeed, it will not matter if Man becomes immortal. He will have nothing to live for.	true immortality greed life man-s-pride page-58 greed-of-man	James Edwin Gunn
965d930	Don't get so holy, Pearce. Life isn't holy.	true page-37	James Edwin Gunn
626fed7	"So that while others may look on the laws of physics as legislation and God as a human form with beard measured in light-years and nebulae for sandals, Fausto's kind (poets) are alone with the task of living in a universe of things which simply are, and cloaking that innate mindlessness with comfortable and pious metaphor so that the "practical" half of humanity may continue in the Great Lie, confident that their machines, dwellings, streets and weather share the same human motives, personal traits and fits of contrariness as they."	true postmodernism	Thomas Pynchon
13c8860	"So that while others may look on the laws of physics as legislation and God as a human form with beard measured in light-years and nebulae for sandals, Faust's kind (poets) are alone with the task of living in a universe of things which simply are, and cloaking that innate mindlessness with comfortable and pious metaphor so that the "practical" half of humanity may continue in the Great Lie, confident that their machines, dwellings, streets and weather share the same human motives, personal traits and fits of contrariness as they."	true postmodernism	Thomas Pynchon
2ee222c	"So that while others may look on the laws of physics as legislation and God as a human form with beard measured in light-years and double for sandals, Faust's kind (poets) are alone with the task of living in a universe of things which simply are, and cloaking that innate mindlessness with comfortable and pious metaphor so that the "practical" half of humanity may continue in the Great Lie, confident that their machines, dwellings, streets and weather share the same human motives, personal traits and fits of contrariness as they."	true postmodernism	Thomas Pynchon
3233bd7	This book says 'life isn't fair' and I'm telling you, one and all, you better believe it. I got a fat spoiled sonhe's not gonna nab Miss Rheingold. And he's always gonna be fat, even if he gets skinny he'll still be fat and he'll still be spoiled and life will never be enough to make him happy, and that's my fault maybemake it all my fault, if you wantthe point is, we're not created equal, for the rich they sing, life isn't fair. I got a cold wife; she's brilliant, she's stimulating, she's terrific; there's no love; that's okay too, just so long as we don't keep expecting everything to somehow even out for us before we die.	true	William Goldman
9521737	"Emotions can become habits - she said haltingly as she wiped her eyes. But habits can be changed"."	true wisdom	Debbie Macomber
8f52c52	Because, what does it mean, to say that things aren't going well? Compared to what? You can say: compared to how things were going a couple of hours ago, or a couple of years ago. But that's not the point. If two cars are speeding towards a brick wall with no brakes, and one car hits the wall moments before the other, you can't spend those moments saying that the second car is much better off than the first. Death and disaster are at our shoulders every second of our lives, trying to get at us. Missing, a lot of the time. A lot of miles on the motorway without a front wheel blow-out. A lot of viruses that slither through our bodies without snagging. A lot of pianos that fall a minute after we've passed. Or a month, it makes no difference. So unless we're going to get down on our knees and give thanks every time disaster misses, it makes no sense to moan when it strikes. Us, or anyone else. Because we're not comparing it with anything.	true	Hugh Laurie
a1200ce	The truth is often a big, scary wall, no less massive and haunting even after you find a way around it.	lying true truth	Sean Patrick Brennan
d601e77	violet doesn't believe in ghosts...but they believe in her.	true shady scary	Alyxandra Harvey

I bet you could sometimes find all the mysteries of the universe in someone's hand.

Benjamin Alire Sáenz

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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.

true reassuring

Virginia Woolf

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It's much easier not to know things sometimes.

true

Stephen Chbosky

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Be silent and safe -- silence never betrays you

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John Boyle O'Reilly

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Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn't fade and the scars don't heal, and it's too damned late.

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Jonathan Tropper

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I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things.

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John Green

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"People who have a religion should be glad, for not everyone has the gift of believing in heavenly things. You don't necessarily even have to be afraid of punishment after death; purgatory, hell, and heaven are things that a lot of people can't accept, but still a religion, it doesn't matter which, keeps a person on the right path. It isn't the fear of God but the upholding of one's own honor and conscience. How noble and good everyone could be if, every evening before falling asleep, they were to recall to their minds the events of the while day and consider exactly what has been good and bad. Then, without realizing it you try to improve yourself at the start of each new day; of course, you achieve quite a lot in the course of time. Anyone can do this, it costs nothing and is certainly very helpful. Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by experience that: "A quiet conscience mades one strong!"

true people life-lessons life truth wisdom inspirational wisdom-quote experience consciousness

Anne Frank

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Jessica. For god's sake," he said. "Allow me to do at least one common courtesy for you. In spite ow what 'women's lib' teaches you, chivalry does not imply that women are powerless. On the contrary, chivalry is an admission of women's superiority. An acknowledgment o

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Beth Fantaskey

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And people who don't dream, who don't have any kind of imaginative life, they must... they must go nuts. I can't imagine that.

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Stephen King

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Life is sufferin

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Jordan B. Peterson

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When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a colouring book, with the inside not yet completed.

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Sarah Dessen

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One can never have enough socks

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J.K. Rowling

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What on earth would I do if four bears came into my camp? Why, I would die of course. Literally shit myself lifeless.

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Bill Bryson

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The world expected girls to pluck and primp and put on heels. Meanwhile, boys dressed in rumpled T-shirts and baggy pants and misplace their combs, and yet you were suppose to fall at their feet? Unacceptable.

true men world

Libba Bray

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It's such a silly little thing, the heart.

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Ned Vizzini

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Nothing is so hard that it can't be found by searching.

true

Kim Harrison

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This century will be called 's century. He was one of the greatest men who ever touched this globe. He has explained more of the phenomena of life than all of the religious teachers. . Think of the men who replied to him. Only a few years ago there was no person too ignorant to successfully answer , and the more ignorant he was the more cheerfully he undertook the task. He was held up to the ridicule, the scorn and contempt of the Christian world, and yet when he died, England was proud to put his dust with that of her noblest and her grandest. conquered the intellectual world, and his doctrines are now accepted facts. His light has broken in on some of the clergy, and the greatest man who to-day occupies the pulpit of one of the orthodox churches, Henry Ward Beecher, is a believer in the theories of --a man of more genius than all the clergy of that entire church put together. ...The church teaches that man was created perfect, and that for six thousand years he has degenerated. demonstrated the falsity of this dogma. He shows that man has for thousands of ages steadily advanced; . Religion and science are enemies. One is a superstition; the other is a fact. One rests upon the false, the other upon the true. One is the result of fear and faith, the other of investigation and reason.

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Robert Green Ingersoll

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Most true things are kind of corny, don't you think? But we make them more sophisticated out of sheer embarrassment.

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Michel Faber

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"A great battle is a terrible thing," the old knight said, "but in the midst of blood and carnage, there is sometimes also beauty, beauty that could break your heart."

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George R.R. Martin

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"Celaena?" Sam asked into the dark. "Should I worry about going to sleep?" She blinked, then laughed under her breath. At least Sam took her threats somewhat seriously."

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Sarah J. Maas

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the unexpected moment [is] always sweeter.

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Julia Quinn

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Isn't it always the things that you can't see that hurt you?

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Katie McGarry

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You have to find what's good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now. Looking back makes you competitive. And, age is not a competitive issue.

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Mitch Albom

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icen que a lo largo de nuestra vida tenemos dos grandes amores; uno con el que te casas o vives para siempre, puede que el padre o la madre de tus hijos, esa persona con la que consigues la compenetracion maxima para estar el resto de tu vida junto a ella. Y dicen que hay un segundo gran amor, una persona que perderas siempre. Alguien con quien naciste conectado, tan conectado que las fuerzas de la quimica escapan a la razon y te impedira, siempre, alcanzar un final feliz. Hasta que cierto dia dejaras de intentarlo. Te rendiras y buscaras a esa otra persona que acabaras encontrando. Pero te aseguro que no pasaras una sola noche sin necesitar otro beso suyo, o tan siquiera discutir una vez mas. Todos sabeis de que estoy hablando, porque mientras estabais leyendo esto os ha venido su nombre a la cabeza. Te libraras de el o de ella, dejaras de sufrir, conseguiras encontrar la paz (le sustituiras por la calma), pero te aseguro que no pasara un dia en que desees que estuviera aqui para perturbarte... Porque, a veces, se desprende mas energia discutiendo con alguien a quien amas que haciendo el amor con alguien a quien aprecias.

true quote love coelho book tragic verdad sad

Paulo Coelho

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Well, as you can plainly see, the possibilities are endless like meandering paths in a great big beautiful garden.

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William S. Burroughs

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Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye.

true love

William Shakespeare

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"She shook her head and whispered, "No. No! That can't be true. Impossible!" "You think things have to be possible? Things have to be true!"

true truth possible

Philip Pullman

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It is easy to be wise after the event.

true wisdom

Arthur Conan Doyle

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Beauty's not only skin deep. Just because a person is beautiful doesn't mean there's no soul beneath. Doesn't mean that person hasn't suffered like everyone else, doesn't mean they don't hope to still be a good human being in an awful world. (Gabriel)

true life perspective judgement

Rachel Cohn

c86d402

We read the pagan sacred books with profit and delight. With myth and fable we are ever charmed, and find a pleasure in the endless repetition of the beautiful, poetic, and absurd. We find, in all these records of the past, philosophies and dreams, and efforts stained with tears, of great and tender souls who tried to pierce the mystery of life and death, to answer the eternal questions of the Whence and Whither, and vainly sought to make, with bits of shattered glass, a mirror that would, in very truth, reflect the face and form of Nature's perfect self. These myths were born of hopes, and fears, and tears, and smiles, and they were touched and colored by all there is of joy and grief between the rosy dawn of birth, and death's sad night. They clothed even the stars with passion, and gave to gods the faults and frailties of the sons of men. In them, the winds and waves were music, and all the lakes, and streams, and springs,--the mountains, woods and perfumed dells were haunted by a thousand fairy forms. They thrilled the veins of Spring with tremulous desire; made tawny Summer's billowed breast the throne and home of love; filled Autumns arms with sun-kissed grapes, and gathered sheaves; and pictured Winter as a weak old king who felt, like Lear upon his withered face, Cordelia's tears. These myths, though false, are beautiful, and have for many ages and in countless ways, enriched the heart and kindled thought. But if the world were taught that all these things are true and all inspired of God, and that eternal punishment will be the lot of him who dares deny or doubt, the sweetest myth of all the Fable World would lose its beauty, and become a scorned and hateful thing to every brave and thoughtful man.

winter perfection shakespeare true grief doubt passion nature joy fear past death dreams music hope life love truth hateful philosophies religion-myths scorn sacred-books brave tender fairy haunted pagan king-lear spring woods fable poetic mountains lake birth smiles deny eternity autumn punishment gods effort tears questions mystery beautiful throne summer thought delight william-shakespeare pleasure

Robert G. Ingersoll

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"It's true though: time moves in its own special way in the middle of the night," the bartender says, loudly striking a book match and lighting a cigarette. "You can't fight it."

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Haruki Murakami

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I thought if I told no one it might not be true.

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Jean Rhys

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"A letter?" repeated Professor McGonagall faintly, sitting back down on the wall. "Really Dumbledore, you think you can explain all this in a letter? These people will never understand him! He'll be famous--a legend--I wouldn't be surprised if today was known as Harry Potter day in the future--there will be books written about Harry--every child in our world will know his name! ..."

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J.K. Rowling

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Funerals, I had decided, are for the living.

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John Green

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That's the thing about pain, it demands to be felt.

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John Green

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I know what happens a the end of falling-landing

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John Green

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That speaking the words, even if true, had little power to change the inevitable or even make him feel much better.

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Nicholas Sparks

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I can never resist telling people good news. I mean, why not brighten someone else's life too?

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Sophie Kinsella

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A hound will die for you, but never lie to you.

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George R.R. Martin

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They told me that nothing was a sin, just a poor life choice. Poor impulse control. That nothing is evil. Any concept of right versus wrong, according to them, is merely a cultural construct relative to one specific time and place. They said that if anything should force us to modify our personal behavior it should be our allegiance to a social contract, not some vague, externally imposed threat of flaming punishment.

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chuck palahniuk

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He has reverted, in other words, back into a pure balls-to-the-wall nerdism rivaled only by his early game-coding days back in Seattle. The sheer depth and involution of the current nerdism binge would be hard to convey to anyone. Intellectually, he is juggling half a dozen lit torches, Ming vases, live puppies, and running chainsaws. In this frame of mind he cannot bring himself to give a shit about the fact that this incredibly powerful billionaire has gone to a lot of trouble to come and F2F with him.

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Neal Stephenson

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There exists a limit to the force even the most powerful may apply without destroying themselves. Judging this limit is the true artistry of government. Misuse of power is the fatal sin. The law cannot be a tool of vengeance, never a hostage, nor a fortification against the martyrs it has created. You cannot threaten any individual and escape the consequences.

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Frank Herbert

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I had another reason for seeking Him, for trying to espy His face, a professional one. God and literature are conflated in my mind. Why this is, I'm not sure. Perhaps because great books seem heavensent. Perhaps because I know that each nove is a puny but very valiant attempt at godlike behavior. Perhaps because there is no difference between the finest poetry and most transcendent mysticism. Perhaps because writers like Thomas Merton, who are able to enter the realm of the spirit and come away with fine, lucid prose. Perhaps because of more secular writers, like John Steinbeck, whose every passage, it seems to me, peals with religiousity and faith. It once occured to me that literature -- all art really -- is either talking to people about God, or talking to God about people.

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Paul Quarrington

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Only those who row the boat make waves

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Christina Dodd

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Could a love of that magnitude die? If it was true love, could it ever die? Was there such a thing as true love?

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Mary Balogh

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Life without any wonder left in it is flat and stale.

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David Eddings

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How true is the saying that the very highest in rank are always the most simple and kindly. It is from you half-and-half sort of people that you get pomposity and vulgarity

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H. Rider Haggard

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She wanted to get some personal profit out of things, and she rejected as useless all that did not contribute to the immediate desires of her heart, being of a temperament more sentimental than artistic, looking for emotions, not landscapes.

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Gustave Flaubert

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I once knew of a minstrel who bragged of having had a thousand women, one time each. He would never know what I knew, that to have one woman a thousand times, and each time find in her a different delight, is far better. I knew now what gleamed in the eyes of old couples when they stared at each other across a room...My familiarity with her was a more potent love elixir than any potion sold by a hedge-witch in the market.

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Robin Hobb

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"I wish creatures wouldn't be so easily offended!", "You'll get used to it in time," said the Caterpillar; and it put the hookah into its mouth and began smoking again."

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Lewis Carroll

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Everything turns on grasping and expressing the True, not only as Substance, but equally as Subject.

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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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The hunger inside us must be fed to be controlled.

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Darren Shan

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La verdadera amistad, pensaban, resiste el paso del tiempo, es desinteresada y generosa, no pide nada a cambio, solo lealtad.

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Isabel Allende

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[...] and I switched to English literature, where so many frustrated poets end as pipe-smoking teachers in tweeds.

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Vladimir Nabokov

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"Sim sighed. "like Ross always said: Wish in one hand,shit in the other,and see which hand fills up first."

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Keith Gray

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...the one certain thing in life is that no one can make the truth untrue simply because it hurts.

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David Weber

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If they succeed, it will not matter if Man becomes immortal. He will have nothing to live for.

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James Edwin Gunn

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Don't get so holy, Pearce. Life isn't holy.

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James Edwin Gunn

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"So that while others may look on the laws of physics as legislation and God as a human form with beard measured in light-years and nebulae for sandals, Fausto's kind (poets) are alone with the task of living in a universe of things which simply are, and cloaking that innate mindlessness with comfortable and pious metaphor so that the "practical" half of humanity may continue in the Great Lie, confident that their machines, dwellings, streets and weather share the same human motives, personal traits and fits of contrariness as they."

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Thomas Pynchon

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"So that while others may look on the laws of physics as legislation and God as a human form with beard measured in light-years and nebulae for sandals, Faust's kind (poets) are alone with the task of living in a universe of things which simply are, and cloaking that innate mindlessness with comfortable and pious metaphor so that the "practical" half of humanity may continue in the Great Lie, confident that their machines, dwellings, streets and weather share the same human motives, personal traits and fits of contrariness as they."

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Thomas Pynchon

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"So that while others may look on the laws of physics as legislation and God as a human form with beard measured in light-years and double for sandals, Faust's kind (poets) are alone with the task of living in a universe of things which simply are, and cloaking that innate mindlessness with comfortable and pious metaphor so that the "practical" half of humanity may continue in the Great Lie, confident that their machines, dwellings, streets and weather share the same human motives, personal traits and fits of contrariness as they."

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Thomas Pynchon

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This book says 'life isn't fair' and I'm telling you, one and all, you better believe it. I got a fat spoiled sonhe's not gonna nab Miss Rheingold. And he's always gonna be fat, even if he gets skinny he'll still be fat and he'll still be spoiled and life will never be enough to make him happy, and that's my fault maybemake it all my fault, if you wantthe point is, we're not created equal, for the rich they sing, life isn't fair. I got a cold wife; she's brilliant, she's stimulating, she's terrific; there's no love; that's okay too, just so long as we don't keep expecting everything to somehow even out for us before we die.

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William Goldman

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"Emotions can become habits - she said haltingly as she wiped her eyes. But habits can be changed"."

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Debbie Macomber

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Because, what does it mean, to say that things aren't going well? Compared to what? You can say: compared to how things were going a couple of hours ago, or a couple of years ago. But that's not the point. If two cars are speeding towards a brick wall with no brakes, and one car hits the wall moments before the other, you can't spend those moments saying that the second car is much better off than the first. Death and disaster are at our shoulders every second of our lives, trying to get at us. Missing, a lot of the time. A lot of miles on the motorway without a front wheel blow-out. A lot of viruses that slither through our bodies without snagging. A lot of pianos that fall a minute after we've passed. Or a month, it makes no difference. So unless we're going to get down on our knees and give thanks every time disaster misses, it makes no sense to moan when it strikes. Us, or anyone else. Because we're not comparing it with anything.

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Hugh Laurie

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The truth is often a big, scary wall, no less massive and haunting even after you find a way around it.

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Sean Patrick Brennan

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violet doesn't believe in ghosts...but they believe in her.

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