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    Jeremy Bentham
    “...the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.”
    ― Jeremy Bentham
    tags: philosophy, utilitarianism
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    Jeanette Winterson
    “While I can’t have you, I long for you. I am the kind of person who would miss a train or a plane to meet you for coffee. I’d take a taxi across town to see you for ten minutes. I’d wait outside all night if I thought you would open the door in the morning. If you call me and say ‘Will you…’ my answer is ‘Yes’, before your sentence is out. I spin worlds where we could be together. I dream you. For me, imagination and desire are very close.”
    ― Jeanette Winterson
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    Jeanette Winterson
    “I was happy but happy is an adult word. You don't have to ask a child about happy, you see it. They are or they are not. Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not. Talking about it is the same as trying to catch the wind. Much easier to let it blow all over you.”
    ― Jeanette Winterson
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    Jeanette Winterson
    “Odd to think that the piece of you I know best is already dead. The cells on the surface of your skin are thin and flat without the blood vessels or nerve endings. Dead cells, thickest on the palms of your hands and the soles of your feet.”
    ― Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body
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    Paulo Coelho
    “One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
    tags: love
    12580 likes

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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “But how could you live and have no story to tell?”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
    tags: life, story
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
    tags: love
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Grown-up people do not know that a child can give exceedingly good advice even in the most difficult case.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot
    tags: advice, children
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    Mircea Cărtărescu
    “Câţiva centimetri, câţiva ani, câteva mii de lei in plus, câteva cărţi citite în plus, mă rog, lucruri de felul ăsta despart oamenii...”
    ― Mircea Cărtărescu, Nostalgia
    tags: cartarescu, nostalgia
    160 likes

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  • #10
    Madeline Miller
    “And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
    tags: quotes
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    Madeline Miller
    “Name one hero who was happy.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
    tags: heroes
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    Madeline Miller
    “I feel like I could eat the world raw.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
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    Madeline Miller
    “We reached for each other, and I thought of how many nights I had lain awake loving him in silence.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
    tags: achilles, patroclus, the-song-of-achilles
    1213 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: books, morality, reading
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    Oscar Wilde
    “You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: sin
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: experience-mistakes-wisdom
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    Oscar Wilde
    “To define is to limit.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: dandy, lord-henry-wotton, wilde
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  • #18
    Seneca
    “We suffer more often in imagination than in reality”
    ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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    Seneca
    “If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.”
    ― Seneca the Younger
    tags: goals
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    Charles Bukowski
    “Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
    tags: humour
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    Charles Bukowski
    “I wanted the whole world or nothing.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Post Office
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    Charles Bukowski
    “the free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Tales of Ordinary Madness
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    Charles Bukowski
    “I drive around the streets
    an inch away from weeping,
    ashamed of my sentimentality and
    possible love.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell
    tags: love, sentimentality, weep, weeping
    873 likes

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  • #24
    Emil M. Cioran
    “A book is a suicide postponed.”
    ― Cioran
    tags: suicide, writing
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    Emil M. Cioran
    “Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.”
    ― Emil Cioran
    tags: life, new-day
    575 likes

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    Emil M. Cioran
    “Tears do not burn except in solitude.”
    ― Emil Cioran, On the Heights of Despair
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    Emil M. Cioran
    “Memories vanish when we want to remember, but fix themselves permanently in the mind when we want to forget.”
    ― Emil Cioran, On the Heights of Despair
    tags: memories
    60 likes

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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on.
    I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.”
    ― jonathan safran foer
    tags: desperate, life, losing, love, nostalgia, pain, regret, solitude
    3124 likes

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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir
    tags: anger, books, friends, greedy, life, loneliness, man, myself, selfish, travel, woman, work, write
    2860 likes

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    Paulo Coelho
    “Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
    tags: inspirational
    7360 likes



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