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“Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
― C.G. Jung

tags: introspection, psychotherapist, secrets, self-awareness, visions

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#2

“A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.”
― Franz Kafka

tags: absurd

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#3

“We live as we dream--alone....”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

tags: dream, loneliness

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#4

“There are no ordinary cats.”
― Colette

tags: cats

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#5

“As your lover describes you, so you are.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry

tags: love, self-fulfilling-prophecy

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#6

“I knew it like destiny, and at the same time, I knew it as choice.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Lighthousekeeping

tags: choice, destiny, fate, life

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#7

“We are always the same age inside. ”
― Gertrude Stein

tags: self-confidence

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#8

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
― Franz Kafka

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#9

“To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

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#10

“To be understood is to prostitute oneself”
― Fernando Pessoa, Poems of Fernando Pessoa

tags: prostitution, understanding

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#11

“I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced.”
― Lawrence Durrell

tags: confirmation, reading, reality

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#12

“Who invented the human heart, I wonder? Tell me, and then show me the place where he was hanged.”
― Lawrence Durrell, Justine

tags: love

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#13

“I am free and that is why I am lost.”
― Franz Kafka

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#14

“Well-behaved women seldom make history.”
― Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History

tags: inspirational, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt, women

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#15

“Life is hell, but there are prizes. ”
― Janet Frame

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#16

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

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#17

“The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.”
― Umberto Eco, Travels in Hyperreality

tags: cowardice, heroism

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#18

“I love the smell of book ink in the morning.”
― Umberto Eco

tags: books, morning, reading, smells

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#19

“Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.”
― Woody Allen

tags: life

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#20

“Memory is a mirror that scandalously lies.”
― Julio Cortázar, Around the Day in Eighty Worlds

tags: memory, past

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#21

“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young

tags: creativity, invention, quip, wings, writing

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#22

“I don't believe in God, but I miss him.
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― Julian Barnes

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#23

“To hurt is as human as to breathe.”
― J.K. Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard

tags: human, hurt

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#24

“And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.”
― Confucius

tags: rockstar-physicist

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#25

“The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.”
― Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai, The Teaching of Buddha

tags: inspirational

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#26

“Once you let yourself grow close to someone, cutting the ties could be painful.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

tags: ties-with-someone

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#27

“How about Proust's In Search of Lost Time?" Tamaru asked. "If you've never read it this would be a good opportunity to read the whole thing."

"Have you read it?"

"No, I haven't been in jail, or had to hide out for a long time. Someone once said unless you have those kinds of opportunities, you can't read the whole of Proust.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

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#28

“Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.”
― Martin Amis

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#29

“Where your pain is, there your heart lies also.”
― Anna Kamienska

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#30

“There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.”
― Buddha

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