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#1

“Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: adversity, contrast

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#2

“Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.”
― Charles Baudelaire, The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays

tags: genius

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#3

“The beautiful is always bizarre.”
― Charles Baudelaire

tags: art, baudelaire, beauty, life

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#4

“Remembering is only a new form of suffering.”
― Charles Baudelaire

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#5

“Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.”
― Charles Baudelaire

tags: beauty, strangeness

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#6

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: good, writing

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#7

“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
― Saul Bellow

tags: imagination, inspiration, writing

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#8

“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
― Franz Kafka

tags: honesty, truth-telling, writing

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#9

“Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
― Benjamin Franklin Wade

tags: humor, misattributed-mark-twain, philosophy, theology

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#10

“One can promise actions, but not feelings, for the latter are involuntary.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Aphorisms on Love and Hate

tags: feelings, promises

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#11

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
― Socrates

tags: knowledge, wisdom

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