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“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
J. K. Rowling
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“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”
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2007
“There's something happening every day, but I'm too tired and lazy to write it all down.”
Anne Frank
,
“The Diary of a Young Girl”
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1947
“Sleep comes more easily than it returns.”
Victor Hugo
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“Les Misérables”
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1862
“A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
George R. R. Martin
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“A Game of Thrones”
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1996
“I could tell you my adventures—beginning from this morning . . . but it's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
Lewis Carroll
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“Alice's Adventures in Wonderland”
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1865
“Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.”
George Orwell
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“1984”
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1949
“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.”
Charlotte Brontë
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“Jane Eyre”
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16 October 1847
“I may die young . . . But at least I'll die smart.”
John Green
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“Looking for Alaska”
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2005
“When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?”
Virginia Woolf
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“Night and Day”
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1919
“There are no ugly questions except those clothed in condescension.”
John Steinbeck
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“East of Eden”
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1952
“if hawks have always had the same character why should you imagine that men may have changed theirs?”
Voltaire
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“Candide”
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1759
“We make allowance for a certain degree of selfishness in men; because we know it to be inseparable from human nature, and inherent in our frame and constitution.”
David Hume
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“A Treatise of Human Nature”
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1738
“Your first impulse is to share good news, your second is to club someone with it.”
Stephen King
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“The Stand”
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1978
“Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of a competence.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
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“The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt”
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1961
“I don't know how long it will last, but I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.”
Louisa May Alcott
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“Little Women”
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1868
“One cannot be prepared for something while secretly believing it will not happen.”
Nelson Mandela
,
“Long Walk to Freedom”
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1995
“We are here and it is now. The way I see it is, after that, everything tends towards guesswork.”
Terry Pratchett
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“Small Gods”
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1992
“What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized.”
Chuck Palahniuk
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“Survivor”
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1999
“Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.”
Charlie Chaplin
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“Monsieur Verdoux”
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1947
“He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.”
Leonardo da Vinci
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“The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”
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1478 – 1519
