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#1

“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

tags: adversity, inspirational, life-lessons, problems, trials

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#2

“I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

tags: dreaming, dreams

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#3

“When Aldo spoke of Regan his voice had a tendency to change, illumination rising near his cheeks. "You should see her work," he would say the same way someone else might have said: Come outside, come look at the stars.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

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#4

“Nora.” He just barely smiles. “You’re in books. Of course you don’t have a life. None of us do. There’s always something too good to read.”
― Emily Henry, Book Lovers

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#5

“Stationary"

The moon did not become the sun.
It just fell on the desert
in great sheets, reams
of silver handmade by you.
The night is your cottage industry now,
the day is your brisk emporium.
The world is full of paper.

Write to me.”
― Agha Shahid Ali, The Veiled Suite: The Collected Poems

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#6

“There again is memory
at my doorstep --

jasmine crushed under
departing feet.

The moon extinguishes
its silver pain

on the window.”
― Agha Shahid Ali, A Nostalgist's Map of America: Poems

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#7

“For every sensation Regan could conjure, there was an artist who had beautifully suffered the same.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

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#8

“Things were always stranger in retrospect, which was a funny little consequence of time.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

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#9

“Marianne had the sense that her real life was happening somewhere very far away, happening without her, and she didn't know if she would ever find out where it was or become part of it.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

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#10

“That’s life. You’re always making decisions, taking paths that lead you away from the rest before you can see where they end. Maybe that’s why we as a species love stories so much. All those chances for do-overs, opportunities to live the lives we’ll never have.”
― Emily Henry, Book Lovers

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#11

“For anyone who wants it all,” she begins, “may you find something that is more than enough.”
― Emily Henry, Book Lovers

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#12

“Just because not everyone gets you doesn't mean you're wrong.”
― Emily Henry, Book Lovers

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#13

“Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art. ”
― Susan Sontag

tags: art, art-criticism, criticism, critique, intelligence, interpretation, scholars, scholarship

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#14

“Today everything exists to end in a photograph.”
― Susan Sontag

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#15

“The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions.”
― Susan Sontag

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#16

“Sanity is a cozy lie.”
― Susan Sontag

tags: sanity

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#17

“The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.”
― Susan Sontag

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#18

“..the loudest words are the ones we live.”
― Mia Sheridan, Archer's Voice

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#19

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

tags: freedom, women, writing

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#20

“I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.”
― Virginia Woolf

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#21

“The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.”
― Virginia Woolf

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#22

“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own / Three Guineas

tags: calming, reassuring, true

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#23

“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

tags: fiction, money, on-writing, virgin, women, writing

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#24

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus

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#25

“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
― Albert Camus

tags: humanity, life, mankind, mortality

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#26

“Live to the point of tears.”
― Albert Camus

tags: life, living

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#27

“But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”
― Albert Camus

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#28

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
― Albert Camus

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#29

“When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.”
― Albert Camus, A Happy Death

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#30

“The irony is that when we’re standing across from someone who is hidden or shielded by masks and armor, we feel frustrated and disconnected. That’s the paradox here: Vulnerability is the last thing I want you to see in me, but the first thing I look for in you. If”
― Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

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