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    Michael Cunningham
    “You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
    ― Michael Cunningham, The Hours
    tags: life, peace
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    William Shakespeare
    “Then must you speak
    Of one that loved not wisely but too well,
    Of one not easily jealous but, being wrought,
    Perplexed in the extreme; of one whose hand,
    Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away
    Richer than all his tribe; of one whose subdued eyes,
    Albeit unused to the melting mood,
    Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees
    Their medicinable gum. Set you down this,
    And say besides that in Aleppo once,
    Where a malignant and a turbaned Turk
    Beat a Venetian and traduced the state,
    I took by th' throat the circumcised dog
    And smote him thus.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Othello
    tags: jealousy, love, malignant, wise
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    William Shakespeare
    “If music be the food of love, play on;
    Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
    The appetite may sicken, and so die.
    That strain again! it had a dying fall:
    O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound,
    That breathes upon a bank of violets,
    Stealing and giving odour! Enough; no more:
    'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
    O spirit of love! how quick and fresh art thou,
    That, notwithstanding thy capacity
    Receiveth as the sea, nought enters there,
    Of what validity and pitch soe'er,
    But falls into abatement and low price,
    Even in a minute: so full of shapes is fancy
    That it alone is high fantastical.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
    tags: music, romance, unrequited-love
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    Blaise Pascal
    “All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
    ― Blaise Pascal, Pensées
    tags: ironic, sad
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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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    Jostein Gaarder
    “The history of thought - or of reason - is like this river. The thoughts that are washed along with the current of past tradition, as well as the material conditions prevailing at the time, help to determine how you think. You can therefore never claim that any particular thought is correct for ever and ever. But the thought can be correct from where you stand.”
    ― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World
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    A.A. Milne
    “Lots of people talk to animals...Not very many listen though...that's the problem.”
    ― A.A. Milne
    tags: animals, listen, talk
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    Theodore Roethke
    “What we need are more people who specialize in the impossible.”
    ― Theodore Roethke
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    Theodore Roethke
    “Over every mountain, there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.”
    ― Theodore Roethke
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    Theodore Roethke
    “The darkness has it's own light.”
    ― Theodore Roethke
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    Charles Baudelaire
    “One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.”
    ― Charles Baudelaire, Paris Spleen
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    Charles Bukowski
    “hate contains truth. beauty is a facade.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit
    tags: beauty, hate, truth
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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
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
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    Alice Hoffman
    “The moon is always jealous of the heat of the day, just as the sun always longs for something dark and deep.”
    ― Alice Hoffman , Practical Magic
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    Marcel Proust
    “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
    ― Marcel Proust
    tags: gratitude, happiness
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    Marcel Proust
    “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
    ― Marcel Proust
    tags: discovery, travel
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    E.A. Bucchianeri
    “Love, like everything else in life, should be a discovery, an adventure, and like most adventures, you don’t know you’re having one until you’re right in the middle of it.”
    ― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
    tags: adventure, adventures, adventures-in-love, catholic-author, discovery, experiences, first-love, life, life-changing, life-experience, life-lesson, love, romance, romantic, self-discovery, true-love
    475 likes

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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Not all those who wander are lost.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: bilbo, journey, lost, quest, travel, wander
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    Milan Kundera
    “A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.”
    ― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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    Milan Kundera
    “He suddenly recalled from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split then in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seeking one another. Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.”
    ― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
    tags: love, philosophy
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    Milan Kundera
    “I want you to be weak. As weak as I am.”
    ― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
    tags: love
    716 likes

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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
    tags: drinking
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world’s weight he had never chosen to bear.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
    tags: chose, everything, heavy, never, nothing, tired, to-bear, world
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I want to just be lazy and I want some of the people around me to be doing things, because that makes me feel comfortable and safe - and I want some of them to be doing nothing at all, because they can be graceful and companionable for me.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Things are sweeter when they're lost.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
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    Hermann Hesse
    “When someone seeks," said Siddhartha, "then it easily happens that his eyes see only the thing that he seeks, and he is able to find nothing, to take in nothing because he always thinks only about the thing he is seeking, because he has one goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: having a goal. But finding means: being free, being open, having no goal.”
    ― Herman Hesse, Siddhartha
    tags: siddhartha
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    Ernst F. Schumacher
    “An ounce of practice is generally worth more than a ton of theory.”
    ― E F Schumacher, Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered
    tags: practice, theory
    52 likes



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