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Language, that most human invention, can enable what, in principle, should not be possible. It can allow all of us, even the congenitally blind, to see with another person’s eyes. ↗

— Oliver Sacks

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Friends we shall never be, you know that yourself. Whether we shall be the happiest or the wretchedest of people--that's in your hands. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

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They keep track of time. Sometimes things happen and you feel that you need to mark them down. ↗

— Scott O'Connor

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There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth.   Not going all the way, and not starting.”   Siddhrtha Gautama ↗

— Seth Godin

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See, the world is full of things more powerful than us. But if you know how to catch a ride, you can go places, ↗

— Neal Stephenson

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The desperation was coming off you in waves. You were all but begging to dance with me. I am doing you a favor. ↗

— Amanda Hocking

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She draws patterns on my face / These lines make shapes that can’t replace / the version of me that I hold inside / when lying with you, lying with you, lying with you. ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

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I’ve always resented Hermione, because I wanted to be her so badly and she never seemed to appreciate as much as I thought she should that she got to be her. She got to live at Hogwarts and be friends with Harry and kiss Ron, which was supposed to happen to me. ↗

— David Levithan

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So convenient a thing to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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Peeling off my skin / leaving just my eyes behind / You see inside my head / Still know that you are mine. ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

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