February 2011
44 posts
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“A long time ago, in the Underground Realm, where there are no lies or pain,...”
– Pan’s Labyrinth
January 2011
84 posts
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“But we are alone, darling child, terribly, isolated each from the other; so...”
– Truman Capote
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“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
– Franz Kafka
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“Falling in love is the best way to kill your heart, because then its not yours...”
– Ville Vall
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“I love you more than my own filthiness, more than my own hair color. Oh God, I...”
– Pink Flamingos
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“I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is...”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“I love all things, not because they are passionate or sweet-smelling, but...”
– Pablo Neruda
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“Among other things, you’ll find that you’re not the first person who was ever...”
– J.D. Salinger
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“Can it really be love if we don’t talk that much, don’t see each other? Isn’t...”
– Sara Zarr, Sweethearts
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“I became aware that our love was doomed; love had turned into a love affair with...”
– Graham Greene, The End of the Affair
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“The clock holds me nowhere. Nowhere. Nowhere. There is nothing else but now and...”
– James Frey, A Million Little Pieces
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“There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most...”
– Peyton Conway March
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“For every poet it is always morning in the world. History a forgotten, insomniac...”
– Derek Walcott, in his 1992 acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in Literature
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“Wine had bloodied your lips and tongue, when you whispered your tale of how...”
– Charles Simic, Wonders Of The Invisible World
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“I find it so much easier to be creatively free at night. Daytime is for...”
– Mark Ryden
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“I am totally nocturnal. That comes from waiting for your parents to go to bed,...”
– Alison Mosshart
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“Whoever it is you fall in love with for the first time, not just love but be in...”
– Jeanette Winterson, The Passion
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“The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In...”
– Graham Greene
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“There is a very dark and painful side to life, but that is natural. People in...”
– Mark Ryden
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“A technique is developed to meet the needs of a certain problem. But Einstein...”
– Richard Bartlett
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“As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings; the horror of...”
– Charles Baudelaire
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“Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.”
– Charlie Chaplin
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“See, once it’s in your head though, you become this strange new breed; a life...”
– Susanna Kaysen, Girl Interrupted
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“Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding and, under ideal conditions,...”
– E. B. White
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“As if you were on fire from within. The moon lives in the lining of your skin.”
– Pablo Neruda
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“I didn’t have any friends at school, didn’t want any. I felt better being alone....”
– Charles Bukowski
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“Most of us are frightened of dying because we don’t know what it means to live....”
– J. Krishnamurti, Freedom From The Known
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“This was the wonderful thing about strangers. They were big blank pieces of...”
– Janet Fitch, Paint It Black
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“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”
– Albert Einstein
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“What an astonishing thing a book is. Across the millennia, an author is speaking...”
– Carl Sagan
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“My memories have turned into anxieties.”
– Fernando Pessoa
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“There is a desert on the moon where the dreamer sinks so deeply into the ground...”
– Jung, Man and His Symbols
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“When you hurt people, they begin to love you less. That’s what careless words...”
– Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
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“Surviving in whatever life you’re living means lying, and lying corrodes the...”
– Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down
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“Maybe we all live life at too high a pitch, those of us who absorb emotional...”
– Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
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“‘Why do beautiful songs make you sad?’ ‘Because they aren’t true.’ ‘Never?’...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer
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“The weak fear happiness itself. They can harm themselves on cotton wool....”
– Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human
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“She thought about her life and how lost she’d felt for most of it. She thought...”
– Douglas Coupland, All Families are Psychotic
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“Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for...”
– Margaret Atwood
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“I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.”
– Franz Kafka
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“I wish to weep, but sorrow is stupid. I wish to believe, but belief is a...”
– Charles Bukowski
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“A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely...”
– Charles Bukowski
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“In the morning it was morning and I was still alive.”
– Charles Bukowski
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“We knew the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love, and...”
– The Virgin Suicides (1999)
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“There are two kinds of visual memory: one when you skillfully recreate an image...”
– Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
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“I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I...”
– Anais Nin
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“Don’t touch me; I’ll die if you touch me.”
– Humbert Humbert, (Lolita, 1997)
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“I’m fascinated by the way the contemporary world has constructed this manic...”
– John Green
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“Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you...”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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“You know whats weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon,...”
– Bill Watterson