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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: art, chaos
    6841 likes

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    Pablo Picasso
    “Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
    5077 likes

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    Thomas Merton
    “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
    ― Thomas Merton , No Man Is an Island
    tags: art
    3376 likes

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    Chuck Klosterman
    “Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.”
    ― Chuck Klosterman, Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
    tags: art, love, profound
    3554 likes

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    Pablo Picasso
    “Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
    tags: art
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    Vincent van Gogh
    “...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?”
    ― Vincent Willem van Gogh
    tags: art, nature, poetry, suicide
    3123 likes

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    Bob Marley
    “Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.”
    ― Bob Marley
    tags: freedom, liberty, life, revolution
    2914 likes

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    Toni Morrison
    “You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”
    ― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
    tags: burdens, empowerment, flying, freedom, unburdening, weight
    3808 likes

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    Mae West
    “I'm single because I was born that way.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: bachelorhood, choice, dignity, empowerment, freedom, independence, self-determination, singleness, singles
    2112 likes

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  • #10
    Victor Hugo
    “Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”
    ― Victor Hugo
    tags: literature, music, poetry
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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    Maya Angelou
    “Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: loneliness, music, refuge
    5470 likes

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    Aldous Huxley
    “After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Music at Night and Other Essays
    tags: music
    4210 likes

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    Heinrich Heine
    “Where words leave off, music begins.”
    ― Heinrich Heine
    tags: music, power-of-music
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    “Music is to the soul what words are to the mind.”
    ― Modest Mouse, Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News
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    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    “Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.”
    ― Edward Bulwer Lytton
    tags: music, power-of-music
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    Lana Del Rey
    “I was always an unusual girl.
    My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due north, no fixed personality; just an inner indecisiveness that was as wide and as wavering as the ocean.”
    ― Lana Del Rey
    tags: born-to-die, chameleon, elizabeth-woolridge-grant, life, lyrics, moral-compass, mother, music, ocean, personality, pop, ride, single, song, soul, unusual, wise
    1354 likes

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    Daniel Keyes
    “Thank God for books and music and things I can think about.”
    ― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
    tags: book, books, music
    898 likes

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    Lao Tzu
    “Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: attributed-no-source, music
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    Confucius
    “Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.”
    ― Confucius, The Book of Rites
    tags: art, music, power-of-music
    691 likes

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    Marilyn Manson
    “Music is the strongest form of magic.”
    ― Marilyn Manson
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    Leonard Cohen
    “I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you, I’m glad you stood in my way.”
    ― Leonard Cohen
    tags: famous-blue-raincoat
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    Leonard Cohen
    “I don't remember
    lighting this cigarette
    and I don't remember
    if I'm here alone
    or waiting for someone.”
    ― Leonard Cohen, Book of Longing
    467 likes

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    Leonard Cohen
    “Don't call yourself a secret
    unless you mean to keep it.”
    ― Leonard Cohen, Selected Poems 1956-1968
    141 likes

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    Leonard Cohen
    “I have often prayed for you
    like this
    Let me have her”
    ― Leonard Cohen
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    Leonard Cohen
    “If you want a lover I'll do anything you ask.

    If you want a different kind of love I'll wear a mask.

    If you want to strike me down in anger here I stand.

    If you want a partner in life take my hand.

    I'm your man.”
    ― Leonard Cohen
    101 likes

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  • #27
    Leonard Cohen
    “We are ugly but we have the music.”
    ― Leonard Cohen
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    Leonard Cohen
    “I almost went to bed
    without remembering
    the four white violets
    I put in the button-hole
    of your green sweater

    and how i kissed you then
    and you kissed me
    shy as though I’d
    never been your lover”
    ― Leonard Cohen, The Spice-Box of Earth
    tags: love
    58 likes

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    Alfred Tennyson
    “The quiet sense of something lost”
    ― Tennyson
    tags: lost, quiet, sense
    335 likes

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  • #30
    John Milton
    “The mind is a universe and can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”
    ― John Milton
    tags: heaven-and-hell, hell, lost, milton, paradise
    119 likes



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