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    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.”
    ― Robert Louis Stevenson, Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson
    tags: books, inspirational, on-writing, reading
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    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “A friend is a gift you give yourself.”
    ― Robert Louis Stevenson
    tags: friend, gift, give, self
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    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.”
    ― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth.”
    ― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
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    George Orwell
    “Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”
    ― George Orwell
    tags: generations-intelligence-wisdom
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    George Orwell
    “The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: books, reading
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    George Orwell
    “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
    ― George Orwell, Animal Farm
    tags: animal-farm, animals, closing-line, man, satirical
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    George Orwell
    “The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
    ― George Orwell
    tags: history, propaganda, rewriting-history
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    James Joyce
    “Shut your eyes and see.”
    ― James Joyce
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    James Joyce
    “He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.”
    ― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
    tags: language, words
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    James Joyce
    “They lived and laughed and loved and left.”
    ― James Joyce, Finnegans Wake
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    James Joyce
    “Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?”
    ― James Joyce, The Dead
    tags: love
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    James Joyce
    “Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.”
    ― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
    tags: experience
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    James Joyce
    “The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question.”
    ― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
    tags: art, artist, beautiful, creation, object, question
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    James Joyce
    “He was alone. He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life. He was alone and young and wilful and wildhearted, alone amid a waste of wild air and brackish waters and the seaharvest of shells and tangle and veiled grey sunlight.”
    ― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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    James Joyce
    “You can still die when the sun is shining.”
    ― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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    James Joyce
    “God made food; the devil the cooks.”
    ― James Joyce, Ulysses
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    James Joyce
    “I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real
    adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.”
    ― James Joyce, Dubliners
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    James Joyce
    “bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk!”
    ― James Joyce, Finnegans Wake
    tags: finnegans-wake
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: freedom, women, writing
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
    tags: writing
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    Virginia Woolf
    “As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
    tags: women
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    Virginia Woolf
    “When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?”
    ― Virginia Woolf
    tags: life
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    Virginia Woolf
    “As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Orlando
    tags: clichés, dignity, double-standards, empowerment, feminism, gender, hypocrisy, intelligence, men, misogyny, self-determination, social-norms, stereotypes, thought, women
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    Virginia Woolf
    “There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, 'Consume me'.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, The Waves
    tags: clouds, star
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    Virginia Woolf
    “How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, The Waves
    tags: coffee-cups, silence, solitude
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
    tags: books, library
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    Virginia Woolf
    “All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Orlando
    tags: obsession
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    D.H. Lawrence
    “A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.”
    ― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover
    tags: life, living, philosophy, women
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    D.H. Lawrence
    “We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.”
    ― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover
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