I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever.
J. K. ROWLINGTalent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.
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It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.
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First sign of madness, talking to your own head.
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I find that discussing an idea out loud is often the way to kill it stone dead.
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To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.
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Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.
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It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.
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Time is making fools of us again.
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Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.
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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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If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.
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It was strange how your brain could know what your heart refused to accept.
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It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
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It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.
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Always have a vivid imagination, for you never know when you might need it.
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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.
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Hearing voices no one else can hear isn’t a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
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Do not pity the dead. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.
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It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
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A good first impression can work wonders.
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You are the true master of death, because the true master does not seek to run away from Death.
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Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.
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The world is full of wonderful things you haven’t seen yet. Don’t ever give up on the chance of seeing them.
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If it’s a good book, anyone will read it. I’m totally unashamed about still reading things I loved in my childhood.
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It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
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Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
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When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.
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