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#1

“But if you must be clever, then be clever. Be brave. Sleep with fists closed and shoot straight.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless

tags: courage

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#2

“It is as great a thing to love as it is to be loved. Love is not something that can be wasted.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

607 likes

#3

“I think it is all a matter of love; the more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it becomes”
― Vladimir Nabokov

tags: infatuation, love, memory, recollection, remembrance

1666 likes

#4

“I want to be like water. I want to slip through fingers, but hold up a ship.”
― Michelle Williams

tags: deep-thoughts

478 likes

#5

“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”
― Mark Twain

tags: birth, born, day, important, life, reasons-why, true

1831 likes

#6

“And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

tags: earnestness, gullibility, honesty

4826 likes

#7

“And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

1695 likes

#8

“Love is a rebellious bird,
that nobody can tame,
and you call him quite in vain,
if it suits him not to come.”
― Ludovic Halévy

tags: love, opera

1301 likes

#9

“Don't be delicate, be vast and brilliant.”
― Shinedown

30 likes

#10

“And the rest is rust and stardust.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

4855 likes

#11

“Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

tags: imagination

2299 likes

#12

“We loved each other with a premature love, marked by a fierceness that so often destroys adult lives.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

tags: pp-18

695 likes

#13

“Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

604 likes

#14

“The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight

476 likes

#15

“We are most artistically caged.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire

148 likes

#16

“...in my dreams the world would come alive, becoming so captivatingly majestic, free and ethereal, that afterwards it would be oppressive to breathe the dust of this painted life.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Invitation to a Beheading

125 likes

#17

“The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory

tags: brevity, darkness, death, life, light, reality

274 likes

#18

“I’m not brave any more darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

1370 likes

#19

“Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.”
― Ernest Hemingway

584 likes

#20

“You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.”
― Rumi

877 likes

#21

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing

31523 likes

#22

“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”
― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter

tags: be-yourself, self-determination

5079 likes

#23

“A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.”
― Maya Angelou

tags: inspirational

2973 likes

#24

“Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.”
― Maya Angelou

3164 likes

#25

“If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?”
― Maya Angelou

2478 likes

#26

“Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!”
― Maya Angelou

tags: inspirational

2494 likes

#27

“The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.”
― Maya Angelou

tags: ambition, inspirational, wisdom

2596 likes

#28

“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”
― Maya Angelou

4754 likes

#29

“Love isn’t soft, like those poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.”
― Stephen King, The Body

171 likes

#30

“You are the poem I never knew how to write and this life is the story I have always wanted to tell.”
― Tyler Knott Gregson

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