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#1

“A good book is an event in my life.”
― Stendhal, The Red and the Black

tags: books, literature, reading

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#2

“I am tired of myself tonight. I should like to be somebody else.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: ennui

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#3

“Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: stories, sylvia-plath

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#4

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell

tags: truth

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#5

“The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel that we must be what we are without any choice in the matter, and that this humiliation is seen by everyone.”
― Milan Kundera, Immortality

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#6

“Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.”
― Herman Melville

tags: criticism, poverty

724 likes

#7

“I've never done anything but dream. This, and this alone, has been the meaning of my life. My only real concern has been my inner life.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

625 likes

#8

“It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.”
― Anne Sexton

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#9

“Of course there is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life, and what it brings”
― Arthur Rubinstein

tags: philosophy

140 likes

#10

“There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession”
― Daniel Webster

tags: inspirational

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#11

“We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

tags: stoppard

1194 likes

#12

“Every woman becomes their mother. That's their tragedy. And no man becomes his. That's his tragedy.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

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#13

“The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it or to escape what is bad in it but we will escape it only by adding something better to it.”
― Wendall Berry

tags: wisdom

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#14

“Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.”
― Ayn Rand

tags: atlas-shrugged, ayn-rand

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#15

“Sometimes I feel like a caretaker of a museum -- a huge, empty museum where no one ever comes, and I'm watching over it for no one but myself.”
― Haruki Murakami, Pinball, 1973

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#16

“Delay is the deadliest form of denial.”
― C. Northcote Parkinson

tags: denial, life

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#17

“For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.”
― Stuart Chase

tags: belief, god, life, religion

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#18

“We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.”
― Tennessee Williams, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore

tags: burning, fire, house, trapped, windows

473 likes

#19

“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
― Stephen King

tags: life

8372 likes

#20

“You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around and why his parents will always wave back.”
― William D. Tammeus

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#21

“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self."

[The New Statesman, February 25, 1933]”
― Cyril Connolly

tags: faithfulness, popularity, populism, principles, standards, writing

812 likes

#22

“What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays and Addresses

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#23

“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not a mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love.”
― Washington Irving

1013 likes

#24

“Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness, possesses you. And in this materialistic age, a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.”
― Peace Pilgrim

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#25

“Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.”
― C.S. Lewis

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#26

“We're all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.”
― Tennessee Williams

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#27

“Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”
― Helen Keller

tags: educator, inspirational

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#28

“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.”
― Bertrand Russell

tags: certainty, doubt, fanatics, fools, wisdom

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#29

“A man's suffering is similar to the behavior of gas. If a certain quantity of gas is pumped into an empty chamber, it will fill the chamber completely and evenly, no matter how big the chamber. Thus suffering completely fills the human soul and conscious mind, no matter whether the suffering is great or little. Therefore the 'size' of human suffering is absolutely relative.”
― Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

tags: relativity, suffering

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#30

“Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.”
― Marcel Proust

tags: memory, nostalgia, recollection

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