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    Lauren DeStefano
    “We writers are resilient souls.”
    ― Lauren DeStefano, Wither
    tags: resilience, writers
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    Mark Twain
    “Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor, writing
    9633 likes

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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: attributed-no-source, discovery, identity, self-discovery, service
    2937 likes

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  • #4
    Coco J. Ginger
    “Easy, breezy.”
    ― Coco J. Ginger
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    Stephen J. Day
    “I am not an outsider. I am an insider who discovered that everyone else had gone out.”
    ― Stephen J. Day, Horizontal - The Recumbent Adventures of Philias Switchmoat
    tags: discovery, insider, isolation, misfit, outsider, philosophy
    11 likes

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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Still round the corner there may wait,
    A new road or a secret gate.”
    ― J. R. R. Tolkien
    tags: discovery, inspirational, secret
    3 likes

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  • #7
    Albert Camus
    “But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”
    ― Albert Camus
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    Leon C. Megginson
    “It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change.”
    ― Leon C. Megginson
    tags: adaptability, evolution, misattributed-to-darwin, survival, survival-of-the-fittest
    587 likes

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  • #9
    William Blake
    “The stars are threshed, and the souls are threshed from their husks.”
    ― William Blake
    tags: souls, stars
    14 likes

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    Cormac McCarthy
    “Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
    tags: consent, existence, horror, knowledge, western
    1072 likes

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    William Blake
    “Oh! why was I born with a different face? why was I not born like the rest of my race? when
    I look,each one starts! when I speak, I offend; then Im silent & passive & lose every friend. Then
    my verse I dishonour, my pictures despise, my person degrade & my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; all my talents I bury, and dead is my fame. Im either too low or too highly prized; when elate I m envy'd, when meek Im despis'd”
    ― William Blake
    tags: solitude
    45 likes

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  • #12
    Santosh Kalwar
    “Trust starts with truth and ends with truth.”
    ― Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday
    tags: trust, truth
    549 likes

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    Hugh Laurie
    “I would cling to unhappiness because it was a known, familiar state. When I was happier, it was because I knew I was on my way back to misery. I've never been convinced that happiness is the object of the game. I'm wary of happiness.”
    ― Hugh Laurie
    tags: happiness, misery
    107 likes

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  • #14
    Edward Abbey
    “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
    ― Edward Abbey
    198 likes

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  • #15
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound for ever to the circles of the world, and beyond them is more than memory.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    1140 likes

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  • #16
    Pablo Neruda
    “my feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping
    but
    I shall go on living.”
    ― Pablo Neruda
    1149 likes

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    Joshua Slocum
    “I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.”
    ― Joshua Slocum, Sailing Alone around the World
    tags: alone, books, friends, solitude
    3499 likes

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    Haruki Murakami
    “But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very air I breathe, would feel like long, sharp needles. The pages of a book in my hands would take on the threatening metallic gleam of razor blades. I could hear the roots of loneliness creeping through me when the world was hushed at four o'clock in the morning.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
    tags: loneliness
    2110 likes

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    Robert Frost
    “They cannot scare me with their empty spaces
    Between stars—on stars where no human race is.
    I have it in me so much nearer home
    To scare myself with my own desert places.”
    ― Robert Frost, The Poetry of Robert Frost
    tags: loneliness
    1188 likes

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  • #20
    “What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.”
    ― Henry Stanley Haskins, Meditations in Wall Street
    1463 likes

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  • #21
    Philip Roth
    “Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.”
    ― Philip Roth
    1653 likes

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    Simone Weil
    “Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be obtained only by someone who is detached. ”
    ― Simone Weil
    tags: attachment, detachment, reality, simone-weil
    368 likes

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    Michael Bassey Johnson
    “Always remember that you were once alone, and the crowd you see in your life today are just as unecessary as when you were alone.”
    ― Michael Bassey Johnson
    tags: alone, bad-company, bad-friends, believe-in-yourself, company, composure, contentment, crowd, detachment, disturbance, enigma, enigmatic, freedom, friends, friendship, friendships, happiness, liberty, lonely, lonliness, michael-bassey-johnson, negative-people, once, one, privacy, private-life, remember, rememberance, separation, single, today, toxic-people, unecessary, yesterday, you
    194 likes



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