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“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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#2

“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

tags: breath, existence

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#3

“I began to see why woman-haters could make such fools of women. Woman-haters were like gods: invulnerable and chock full of power. They descended, and then they disappeared. You could never catch one.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

tags: men

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#4

“Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother of the earth, slut of the universe; but she never becomes herself because it is forbidden for her to do so.”
― Andrea Dworkin

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#5

“Many women, I think, resist feminism because it is an agony to be fully conscious of the brutal misogyny which permeates culture, society, and all personal relationships.”
― Andrea Dworkin, Our Blood: Prophecies and Discourses on Sexual Politics

tags: feminism, male-violence, radical-feminism, women

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#6

“It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone... but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.”
― Kahlil Gibran

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#7

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing

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#8

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

tags: inspirational

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#9

“We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

tags: dreams, imagination, psychology

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#10

“What's past is prologue.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

tags: past

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#11

“Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp’d towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

tags: death, life, meaning

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#12

“Me, poor man, my library
Was dukedom large enough.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

tags: books, library, literature, reading, words

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#13

“O, wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
That has such people in't!”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

tags: hope, irony, wonder

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#14

“Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises,
Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears; and sometime voices,
That, if I then had waked after long sleep,
Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming,
The clouds methought would open, and show riches
Ready to drop upon me; that, when I waked,
I cried to dream again.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

tags: beauty, caliban

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#15

“Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell: Ding-dong
Hark! now I hear them,—Ding-dong, bell.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

tags: death, water

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#16

“Now I will believe that there are unicorns...”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

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#17

“This thing of darkness I
Acknowledge mine.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

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#18

“Thought is free.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

tags: freedom, freedom-of-thought, thought

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#19

“O, brave new world
that has such people in't!”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

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#20

“Awake, dear heart, awake. Thou hast slept well. Awake.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

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#21

“Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

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#22

“I would not wish Any companion in the world but you, Nor can imagination form a shape, Besides yourself, to like of.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

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#23

“Let us not burthen our remembrance with
A heaviness that's gone.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

tags: memories, past, sadness

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#24

“Your tale, sir, would cure deafness.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

tags: storytelling

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#25

“To think but nobly of my grandmother: Good wombs have borne bad sons.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

tags: character, descent, heritage, mothers, sons, the-tempest

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#26

“You taught me language, and my profit on't / Is, I know how to curse”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

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#27

“I am your wife if you will marry me.
If not, I'll die your maid. To be your fellow
You may deny me, but I'll be your servant Whether you will or no.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

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#28

“At this hour
Lie at my mercy all mine enemies.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

tags: enemies, mercy, prospero, revenge, shakespeare, tempest

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#29

“Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of our generation you shall find.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

tags: generation, humanity, manners, shakespeare, tempest

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#30

“This rough magic
I here abjure, and, when I have required
Some heavenly music, which even now I do,
To work mine end upon their senses that
This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff,
Bury it certain fathoms in the earth,
And deeper than did ever plummet sound
I'll drown my book.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

tags: magic, retirement, swan-song

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