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#1

“All good things are wild and free.”
― Henry David Thoreau

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#2

“Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager.”
― Susan Sontag

tags: action, attention, concentration, connection, eagerness, inspiration, intelligence, observation, vitality

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#3

“Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden and Other Writings

tags: simplicity

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#4

“Rilke wrote: 'These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.”
― Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space

tags: 201, nature, rilke, space, trees

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#5

“I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.”
― Gaston Bachelard , The Poetics of Space

tags: dream, house, privacy, space

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#6

“We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection. Something closed must retain our memories, while leaving them their original value as images. Memories of the outside world will never have the same tonality as those of home and, by recalling these memories, we add to our store of dreams; we are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.”
― Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space

tags: 6, comfort, home, memory, safety, space

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#7

“To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.”
― Gaston Bachelard

tags: books, language, literature, poetry, reading, words

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#8

“Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

tags: enjoy-life, fearlessness, live-in-the-moment

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#9

“Things aren't all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a space that no word has ever entered, and more unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

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#10

“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

tags: nature

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#11

“To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.”
― Henry David Thoreau

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#12

“Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art. ”
― Susan Sontag

tags: art, art-criticism, criticism, critique, intelligence, interpretation, scholars, scholarship

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#13

“I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.”
― Susan Sontag

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#14

“I have always been full of lust - as I am now - but I have always been placing conceptual obstacles in my own path.”
― Susan Sontag, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963

tags: lust

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#15

“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

tags: food, love

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#16

“I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street.”
― Virginia Woolf

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#17

“An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.”
― Charles Bukowski

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#18

“I wanted the whole world or nothing.”
― Charles Bukowski, Post Office

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#19

“Baby," I said, "I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me.”
― Charles Bukowski, Factotum

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#20

“Of course it's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.”
― Charles Bukowski

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#21

“Food is good for the nerves and the spirit. Courage comes from the belly – all else is desperation.”
― Charles Bukowski, Post Office

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#22

“Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.”
― Charles Bukowski

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#23

“I wasn't much of a petty thief. I wanted the whole world or nothing.”
― Charles Bukowski, Post Office

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#24

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: books, library

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#25

“Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: love, time

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#26

“Adventure is worthwhile in itself.”
― Amelia Earhart

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#27

“Everyone has oceans to fly, if they have the heart to do it. Is it reckless? Maybe. But what do dreams know of boundaries?”
― Amelia Earhart

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#28

“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.”
― Amelia Earhart

tags: inspirational

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#29

“The most effective way to do it is to do it.”
― Amelia Earhart

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#30

“I did for the fun of it”
― Amelia Earhart, 20 Hours, 40 Min: Our Flight in the Friendship

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