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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
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    Clive Barker
    “Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.”
    ― Clive Barker, Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War
    tags: art, inspirational, love, redemption, sadness
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
    tags: art, inspirational
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possible can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country
    tags: art, arts-and-humanities, creative-process, writing
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    Jenny Colgan
    “I have a head for business and a body for sin. Unfortunately, the sin appears to be gluttony.”
    ― Jenny Colgan, Meet Me at the Cupcake Café
    tags: business, chick-lit, gluttony, humor, humour, seven-deadly-sins
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    Italo Calvino
    “A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
    ― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature
    tags: books, classics, literature, meaning, reading, words
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    Charles Bukowski
    “I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye
    tags: alone, appearance, beautiful, beauty, bukowski, classic, classics, loneliness, lonely, mirror, people, poem, poetry, reflection, self, self-esteem, soul, superficial, superficial-beauty, superficiality, ugly
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  • #8
    “If love is like a possession, maybe my letter are like my exorcisms”
    ― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before
    tags: contemporary, lara-jean, love, love-letters
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “Just how destructive does a culinary preference have to be before we decide to eat something else? If contributing to the suffering of billions of animals that live miserable lives and (quite often) die in horrific ways isn't motivating, what would be? If being the number one contributor to the most serious threat facing the planet (global warming) isn't enough, what is? And if you are tempted to put off these questions of conscience, to say not now, then when?”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals
    tags: animal-rights, vegan, vegetarian
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    Jeremy Bentham
    “The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but "Can they suffer?”
    ― Jeremy Bentham (An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (Philosophical Classics), The Principles of Morals and Legislation
    tags: animal-rights, moral, vegetarian
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    Neal Stephenson
    “Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, and devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad.”
    ― Neal Stephenson
    tags: bad, bad-guy, bad-person, crime, humor, motherfucker, revenge
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    Noam Chomsky
    “For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.”
    ― Noam Chomsky, Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World
    tags: crime, double-standards, hypocrisy, politics, power, war-crimes
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    Victoria Schwab
    “Some people steal to stay alive, and some steal to feel alive. Simple as that.”
    ― V.E. Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic
    tags: crime
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    Madeline Miller
    “There is no law that gods must be fair, Achilles,” Chiron said. “And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone. Do you think?”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
    tags: historical-fiction
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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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  • #16
    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: inspirational, love
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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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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
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    Maurice Switzer
    “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
    ― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book
    tags: misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, misattributed-to-mark-twain, remaining-silent, wisdom
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    Elie Wiesel
    “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
    ― Elie Wiesel
    tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy
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    Bil Keane
    “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
    ― Bill Keane
    tags: attributed-no-source, hope, inspirational, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt, past, present, widely-misattributed
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    Brianna Flores
    “I want to be the one whose pleasure is the focus, not the other way around. Why can’t I just lay there and take it? I am not at all a giving person. Give it to me, dammit. Give me all of the things. That’s what I want.”
    ― Brianna Flores, Pretty Boy
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    Christina Henry
    “There was comfort in ignorance, in thinking the world a certain way and not knowing any different.”
    ― Christina Henry, Alice
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    Christina Henry
    “Interesting' meant that you attracted the notice of men who would hurt you to possess whatever they found 'interesting' about you.”
    ― Christina Henry, Alice
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    Christina Henry
    “He was haunted, same as she was, except he didn’t know the name of his ghost.”
    ― Christina Henry, Alice
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    Christina Henry
    “The world is full of innocent creatures, you were one yourself once, and no one saved you.”
    ― Christina Henry, Alice
    tags: alice, hatcher
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    Tana French
    “I had learned early to assume something dark and lethal hidden at the heart of anything I loved. When I couldn't find it, I responded, bewildered and wary, in the only way I knew how: by planting it there myself.”
    ― Tana French, In the Woods
    tags: darkness, fear, heart
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    Tana French
    “I am not good at noticing when I'm happy, except in retrospect.”
    ― Tana French, In the Woods
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  • #29
    Agustina Bazterrica
    “I don't get why a person's smile is considered attractive. When someone smiles, they're showing their skeleton.”
    ― Agustina Bazterrica, Tender Is the Flesh
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    Kim Dare
    “I don’t think every kind of pain makes people stronger. Some pain just hurts,” Bayden said.”
    ― Kim Dare, Axel's Pup
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