December 2011
59 posts
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“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts,...”
– Charles Bukowski
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“Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.”
– Victor Hugo
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“If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.”
– Vincent Van Gogh
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“Time weighs down on you like an old, ambiguous dream. You keep on moving, trying...”
– Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
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“I had no idea how I was going to escape. At least the others had some taste for...”
– Charles Bukowski
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“The only serious question in life is whether to kill yourself or not.”
– Albert Camus
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“Become one with eternity. Obliterate your personality. Become part of your...”
– Yayoi Kusama
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“The soul of man is like a piece of crystal, but it takes the color of whatever...”
– Swami Vivekananda
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“I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to...”
– Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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“I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realizes an emotion...”
– Virginia Woolf
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“The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you...”
– Baruch de Spinoza
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“If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you...”
– Socrates
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“Yes, Anais, I was thinking how I could betray you, but I can’t. I want you. I...”
– Henry Miller to Anais Nin
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“This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world,...”
– Franz Kafka
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“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”
– Albert Einstein
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“I confess, I do not believe in time.”
– Vladimir Nabokov
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“I have to remind myself to breathe — almost to remind my heart to beat!”
– Emily Brontë
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“Each time we don’t say what we want to say we’re dying. Make a list of how many...”
– Yoko Ono
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“Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you....”
– William Arthur Ward
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“And it’s not “clever lonely” (like Morrissey) or “interesting lonely” (like...”
– Chuck Klosterman, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
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“All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine...”
– Mitch Albom
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“To hell, to hell with balance! I break glasses; I want to burn, even if I break...”
– Anaïs Nin
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“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
– George Orwell
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“The answer is dreams. Dreaming on and on. Entering the world of dreams and never...”
– Haruki Murakami
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“If you were to press your heart close up against somebody else’s heart...”
– Andrea Gibson
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“The moon likes secrets. And secret things. She lets mysteries bleed into her...”
– Charles de Lint
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“Secrets are like stars. They blaze inside the heart and ultimately could be...”
– Jennifer Jabaley
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“The mind is beautiful because of the paradox. It uses itself to understand...”
– Adam Elenbass
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“I said to the sun, ‘Tell me about the big bang.’ The sun said, ‘It hurts to...”
– Andrea Gibson
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“The very reason I write is so that I might not sleepwalk through my entire life.”
– Zadie Smith
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“I will always be the virgin-prostitute, the perverse angel, the two-faced...”
– Anaïs Nin
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“Sometimes I come to hate people because they can’t see where I am. I’ve gone...”
– David Wojnarowicz
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“To be lonely is to feel unwanted and unloved, and therefor unlovable. Loneliness...”
– Jean Vanier
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“She was breathing deeply, she forgot the cold, the weight of beings, the insane...”
– Albert Camus
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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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“Don’t allow your wounds to transform you into someone you are not.”
– Paulo Coelho
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“We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds, our planet is the...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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“I knew that I was dying.
something in me said, go ahead, die, sleep, become as...”
– Charles Bukowski
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“The fairy poet takes a sheet
of moonbeam, silver white;
his ink is dew from...”
– Joyce Kilmer
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“Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.”
– Virginia Woolf
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“We are dying from over-thinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking...”
– Anthony Hopkins
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“Faeries, come take me out of this dull world, For I would ride with you
upon...”
– William Butler Yeats, The Land of Heart’s Desire
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“Purify yourself and become dust, so that from dust, flowers can grow.”
– Rumi
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“Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths...”
– Neil Gaiman
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“The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which...”
– Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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“When you eventually see through the veils to how things really are, you will...”
– Rumi
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“Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.”
– Franz Kafka
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“You’re a different human being to everybody you meet.”
– Chuck Palahniuk
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“Who has never killed an hour? Not casually or without thought, but carefully: a...”
– Mark Z. Danielewski