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    Renée Vivien
    “She embodies all the melancholy of autumn. She has learned to cherish with mournful tenderness a past she dares not remember.”
    ― Renée Vivien, A Woman Appeared to Me
    tags: autumn
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    Renée Vivien
    “I have loved to the limit of my strength. No one has a right to ask more of any human being.”
    ― Renée Vivien, A Woman Appeared to Me
    tags: love, love-quotes
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
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    Osamu Dazai
    “The weak fear happiness itself. They can harm themselves on cotton wool. Sometimes they are wounded even by happiness”
    ― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
    tags: goals-in-life, purpose-of-life
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: beauty, imperfections
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
    tags: intelligence, intelligent-action
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    Hermann Hesse
    “It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.”
    ― Herman Hesse, Siddhartha
    tags: choices, focus, humility, judgement, judgemental, self, tolerance
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    Hermann Hesse
    “Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go”
    ― Herman Hesse
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.”
    ― Virginia Wolfe
    tags: deplorable, life, sleep, virginia-wolfe
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: change, tolstoy
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata
    tags: beauty, delusion, goodness, lies, self-deception, wisdom
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “I think... if it is true that
    there are as many minds as there
    are heads, then there are as many
    kinds of love as there are hearts.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: care, diversity, heart, individuality, love, mind, seduction, soul
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    Honoré de Balzac
    “All happiness depends on courage and work.”
    ― Honoré de Balzac
    tags: courage, happiness, work
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    Honoré de Balzac
    “There is no such thing as a great talent without great willpower.”
    ― Honoré de Balzac
    tags: inspirational
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    Voltaire
    “It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: double-standards, ethics, governments, humor, irony, killing, law, mankind, morality, murder, nationalism, nations, war
    4082 likes

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    Voltaire
    “I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.”
    ― Voltaire
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    Voltaire
    “Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
    ― Voltaire
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    Sun Tzu
    “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”
    ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
    tags: diplomacy, strategy, victory, war
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    Lao Tzu
    “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: courage, deeply-loved, love, strength, widely-misattributed
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    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    “Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.”
    ― Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    tags: government
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    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    “The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.”
    ― Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    tags: imagination, reality
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    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    “I know the feelings of my heart, and I know men. I am not made like any of those I have seen; I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different. Whether Nature has acted rightly or wrongly in destroying the mould in which she cast me, can only be decided after I have been read.”
    ― Jean Jacques Rousseau, Confessions
    tags: identity, nonconformity
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    Emily Brontë
    “Because misery, and degradation, and death, and nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have parted us, you, of your own will did it. I have no broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine. So much the worse for me that I am strong.”
    ― Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
    tags: death, heartache, heathcliff, love, sadness
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    Emily Brontë
    “Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.”
    ― Emily Bronte
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  • #26
    Ann Radcliffe
    “Do you believe your heart to be, indeed, so hardened, that you can look without emotion on the suffering, to which you would condemn me?”
    ― Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho
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  • #27
    Homer
    “…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad.”
    ― Homer, The Iliad
    tags: classics, greece, longing, love, lovers
    1223 likes



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