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#1

“Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

tags: change

3850 likes

#2

“The idea is not to live forever, it is to create something that will.”
― Andy Warhol

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#3

“Paradox though it may seem - and paradoxes are always dangerous things - it is none the less true that Life imitates art far more than Art imitates life.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Decay of Lying

tags: life-art

124 likes

#4

“There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

tags: frankenstein, gothic, horror, mary-shelley

1294 likes

#5

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

tags: bene-gesserit, fear, litany-against-fear, motivational, scifi

16752 likes

#6

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

151392 likes

#7

“He came. He left. Nothing else had changed. I had not changed. The world hadn't changed. Yet nothing would be the same. All that remains is dreammaking and strange remembrance.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

1603 likes

#8

“Is it better to speak or die?”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

1546 likes

#9

“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

tags: love, poetry

16156 likes

#10

“Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”
― Doris Lessing

3087 likes

#11

“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
― William Styron, Conversations with William Styron

13157 likes

#12

“I look for ambiguity because life is ambiguous!”
― Marko Stout

tags: art, artists-life, artists-quotes, marko-stout, nyc, painting, photography, stout, warhol

2 likes

#13

“Beauty is a sign of intelligence.”
― Andy Warhol

tags: beauty, intelligence, pop

291 likes

#14

“Silence is so accurate.”
― Mark Rothko

129 likes

#15

“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: 1929, viereck-interview

37577 likes

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