I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever.
J. K. ROWLINGTo the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
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Wit beyond measure is man’s greatest treasure.
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Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
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Size is no guarantee of power.
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We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.
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The truth is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.
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Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!
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I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for.
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Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.
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I have never been remotely ashamed of having been depressed. Never. What’s to be ashamed of? I went through a really rough time and I am quite proud that I got out of that.
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Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.
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Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential.
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I will defend the importance of bedtime stories to my last gasp.
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Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.
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Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.
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It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
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I’m a writer, and I will write what I want to write.
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You can exist without your soul, you know, as long as your brain and heart are still working. But you’ll have no sense of self anymore, no memory. There’s no chance at all of recovery. You’ll just exist as an empty shell. And your soul is gone forever, lost.
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You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.
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No man or woman alive, magical or not, has ever escaped some form of injury, whether physical, mental, or emotional. To hurt is as human as to breathe.
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It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.
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You must accept that we are as real as you are; you must accept that you are not God.
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It is impossible to manufacture or imitate love.
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Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.
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What’s the worst that could happen? Everyone turned me down; big deal.
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Do not pity the dead. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.
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In the end, it mattered not that you could not close your mind. It was your heart that saved you.
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