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Rise free from care before the dawn, and seek adventures. Let the noon find thee by other lakes, and the night overtake thee everywhere at home.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden

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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson's Essays

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The homoerotic subtext of lotr/the hobbit is all very well and good, but I would also like to point out, since this isn’t talked about very often, that these books are, in fact, canonically very queer, considering that asexuality/aromanticism run rampant in them

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Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.

Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.

William Goldman, The Princess Bride

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Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.

Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

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You call yourself a free spirit, a 'wild thing,' and you're terrified somebody's gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you're already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it's not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somali-land. It's wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself.

Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s

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He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.

Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

Maya Angelou, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings

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It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.

Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

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When you can’t find someone to follow, you have to find a way to lead by example.

Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist

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Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Marthe Troly-Curtin, Phrynette Married

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Sometimes weak and wan, sometimes strong and full of light. The moon understands what it means to be human.

Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do.

Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart  

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None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.

Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

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Who, being loved, is poor?

Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance