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    Alan Moore
    “People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.”
    ― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta
    tags: democracy, equality, government, misattributed
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    Alan Moore
    “Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof.”
    ― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta
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    J.K. Rowling
    “I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
    tags: mischief
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    tags: dumbledore
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    J.K. Rowling
    “The truth." Dumbledore sighed. "It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: truth
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears.
    "After all this time?"
    "Always," said Snape.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    tags: dumbledore, life, love, snape
    19284 likes

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    Rafael Santandreu
    “«No nos afecta lo que nos sucede, sino lo que nos decimos acerca de lo que nos sucede».”
    ― Rafael Santandreu, Las gafas de la felicidad
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    Alan Moore
    “Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell.”
    ― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta
    tags: favourite-quote, inspirational
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    Alan Moore
    “Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself.”
    ― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta
    tags: on-fiction, parables, storytelling
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    Alan Moore
    “You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.”
    ― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta
    tags: honesty, pretense, truthfulness
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven
    tags: animals
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    Alan Moore
    “The past can't hurt you anymore, not unless you let it.”
    ― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta
    tags: graphic-novels, hurting, past, v-for-vendetta
    1212 likes

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    Alan Moore
    “Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.”
    ― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta
    tags: knowledge, life
    1112 likes

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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
    “If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: secrets
    3549 likes

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    George Orwell
    “Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: truth
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    George Orwell
    “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: inspirational
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    Tsugumi Ohba
    “Kira: L, do you know
    Gods of death
    love apples?

    L: Damn you, Kira...”
    ― Tsugumi Ohba, Death Note, Vol. 2: Confluence
    tags: humor, manga, note, secret
    314 likes

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    Tsugumi Ohba
    “I'm gonna take a patato chip! AND eat it!”
    ― Tsugumi Ohba
    tags: humor-food-deathnote
    148 likes

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    Tsugumi Ohba
    “The name of the human who is written in this note shall die.”
    ― Tsugumi Ohba, Death Note, Vol. 1: Boredom
    tags: manga
    127 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
    176775 likes

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    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: good, writing
    19430 likes

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    William Shakespeare
    “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
    ― William Shakespeare, As You Like It
    tags: wisdom
    45280 likes

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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Never laugh at live dragons.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: dragons, wisdom
    8726 likes

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    Isaac Asimov
    “Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
    ― Isaac Asimov, Foundation
    tags: humor, inspirational, philosophy, wisdom
    7745 likes

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    Isaac Asimov
    “Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
    ― Isaac Asimov, Foundation
    tags: violence
    1831 likes

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    Isaac Asimov
    “It was childish to feel disappointed, but childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a child.”
    ― Isaac Asimov, Foundation
    tags: human-condition
    125 likes

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    Isaac Asimov
    “It is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works.”
    ― Isaac Asimov, Foundation
    tags: religion-science
    91 likes

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  • #30
    Isaac Asimov
    “Any fool can tell a crisis when it arrives. The real service to the state is to detect it in embryo.”
    ― Isaac Asimov, Foundation
    89 likes



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