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    William Shakespeare
    “Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
    ― William Shakespeare, The Tempest
    tags: inspirational
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Not hear it? --yes, I hear it, and have heard it. Long --long --long --many minutes, many hours, many days, have I heard it --yet I dared not --oh, pity me, miserable wretch that I am! --I dared not --I dared not speak! We have put her living in the tomb!”
    ― Edgar Alan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
    tags: drama, humor, plays
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
    tags: truth
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
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    Patrick Süskind
    “He succeeded in being considered totally uninteresting. People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.”
    ― Patrick Suskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
    tags: alone, solitude
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Charles Baudelaire
    “My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it.”
    ― Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
    tags: beasts, charles-baudelaire, conversations, eat, eaten, heart, les-fleurs-du-mal, lost, poem, poetry, the-flowers-of-evil
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    Charles Baudelaire
    “Ma jeunesse ne fut qu'un ténébreux orage, Traversé çà et là par de brillants de soleils; Le tonnerre et la pluie ont fait un tel ravage, Qu'il reste en mon jardin bien peu de fruits vermeils.”
    ― Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
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    Osamu Dazai
    “Now I have neither happiness nor unhappiness.

    Everything passes.

    That is the one and only thing that I have thought resembled a truth in the society of human beings where I have dwelled up to now as in a burning hell.

    Everything passes.”
    ― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human
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    Osamu Dazai
    “I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their kind-of people deceiving one another without (strangely enough) any wounds being inflicted, of people who seem unaware even that they are deceiving one another.”
    ― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human
    tags: deceit, deception, human, life
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    Penelope Douglas
    “I'm going to hell. I'm pretty sure she'd going to drag me there herself.”
    ― Penelope Douglas, Punk 57
    tags: love, misha, misha-and-ryen, na, new-adult, new-adult-contemporary-romance, new-adult-romance, penelope-douglas, punk, punk-57, romance, ryen, ryen-and-misha
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    Madeline Miller
    “I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
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    Madeline Miller
    “He is half of my soul, as the poets say.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
    tags: inspirational, love
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  • #16
    “A serial killer sharing a house with a homicide detective and a FBI agent. Life doesn’t get more complicated than this.”
    ― S.T. Abby, Sidetracked
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    “Why is there a gun hidden in my bathroom? Have you ever seen a horror film?”
    ― S.T. Abby, Sidetracked
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    “Two bodies in two days is a rapid devolution. He’s getting too bold.” I dropped two bodies in one day, but I hardly feel like now is the time to brag about my awesome efficiency.”
    ― S.T. Abby, Sidetracked
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    “Kill all the monsters,” she whispers. “That way they don’t hurt anyone else.” Lindy’s breath catches, and I frown. I hope her influence outshines mine in the long run. “I’ll kill them all so you never have to,” I whisper back,”
    ― S.T. Abby, Sidetracked
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    “I love humanity but I hate humans. —Albert Einstein”
    ― S.T. Abby, The Risk
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  • #21
    “I know this shit is fucked up, so don’t bother writing to tell me I’m twisted in the head. ;)      ”
    ― S.T. Abby, The Risk
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  • #22
    “Sometimes people don’t find justice. Sometimes they have to take it.”
    ― S.T. Abby, The Risk
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    “Einstein said, “The weak revenge. The strong forgive. The intelligent ignore.” Fuck that. Einstein wasn’t always right.”
    ― S.T. Abby, The Risk
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  • #24
    “Revenge is a dish best served cold… Now that I agree with. It means they forget you’re coming for them, and their screams sound so much prettier when the time finally comes.”
    ― S.T. Abby, The Risk
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    “just smile, looking all sweet and shit. No ruthless killer here, boys. Just a harmless woman falling in love. That’s all.”
    ― S.T. Abby, Sidetracked
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    Mark Manson
    “Who you are is defined by what you’re willing to struggle for.”
    ― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
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    Mark Manson
    “The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one’s negative experience is itself a positive experience. (p.9)”
    ― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    tags: animals, cruelty, mankind
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    Franz Kafka
    “I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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  • #30
    Franz Kafka
    “Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: books, castle, self
    4144 likes



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