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Acting responsibly is not a matter of strengthening our reason but of deepening our feelings for the welfare of others. ——Sophie's World, Writer, Jostein Gaarder
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Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth. —Song of the Open Road, Poet, Walt Whitman
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Go out and do something. It isn't your room that's a prison, it's yourself. —The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, Poet, Sylvia Plath
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The rain fell upon the city like a veil of tears, blurring the lines between reality and dream. —La Comédie Humaine, Writer, Honoré de Balzac
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The wars and the peace rang echoing through Christophe. He was like a shell wherein the ocean roars. Epic shouts passed, and trumpet calls, and tempestuous sounds, borne upon sovereign rhythms. —Jean-Christophe, Writer, Romain Rolland
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Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. ——The Essays, Writer, Francis Bacon
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We have an obligation to clean up after ourselves, and not leave our children with a world we've shortsightedly messed up, shortchanged, and crippled. —Why Our Future Depends on Libraries, Reading and Daydreaming, Writer, Neil Gaiman
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Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones. —Jane Eyre, Novelist, Charlotte Brontë
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Three o'clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking at my windows and caressingly winking at me with its stars. I can't sleep, I am so happy. —About Love and Other Stories, Writer, Anton Chekhov
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I think we are blind. Blind people who can see, but do not see. —Blindness, Writer, José Saramago
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Each of us, when our day's work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à la Newburg, or the sweet silence of the musty bookshelves. ——The Social Triangle, Writer, O. Henry
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You're only young once, they say, but doesn't it go on for a long time? More years than you can bear. —An Experiment in Love: A Novel, Novelist, Hilary Mantel
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever: Its loveliness increases; It will never Pass into nothingness. —A Poetic Romance, Poet, John Keats
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What fools call wasting time is most often the best investment. —The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms, Writer, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Interesting
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Things were somehow so good that they were in danger of becoming very bad because what is fully mature is very close to rotting. —A Hora da Estrela, Novelist, Clarice Lispector
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It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don't do it. ——Nausea, Writer, Jean-Paul Sartre
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All alone in the moonlight I can smile at the old days I was beautiful then. I remember the time I knew what happiness was Let the memory live again. When the dawn comes tonight will be a memory too And the new day will begin. —Cats, Composer, Andrew Lloyd Webber
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Yes!
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Yes
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