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    Sylvia Plath
    “If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
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    Charles Bukowski
    “Do you hate people?”

    “I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Barfly
    tags: humour, misanthropy, paraphrased
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Hell is—other people!”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit
    tags: garcin, hell, people
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    Marlene Dietrich
    “It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.”
    ― Marlene Dietrich
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    Sylvia Plath
    “There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
    tags: friendship, humor, shared-ordeal
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    Sylvia Plath
    “To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
    tags: sylvia-plath, ted-hughes, the-bell-jar
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I was supposed to be having the time of my life.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I talk to God but the sky is empty.”
    ― Sylvia Plath
    tags: doubt, faith, god, prayer
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I desire the things which will destroy me in the end.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
    tags: coffee, compliments, little-women, louisa-may-alcott
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “You don’t need scores of suitors. You need only one… if he’s the right one.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
    tags: love, quotes, suitors
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.”
    ― Sylvia Plath , The Collected Poems
    tags: dark, sleep, soul, sylvia-plath
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    Helen Fielding
    “It is a truth universally acknowledged that when one part of your life starts going okay, another falls spectacularly to pieces.”
    ― Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary
    tags: paraphrased
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    Helen Fielding
    “I'm no good at anything. Not men. Not social skills. Not work. Nothing.”
    ― Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary
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    Kiersten White
    “And I’d choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I’d find you and I’d choose you.”
    ― Kiersten White, The Chaos of Stars
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
    tags: loneliness, misattributed
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    Edna St. Vincent Millay
    “Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.”
    ― Edna St. Vincent Millay
    tags: loneliness, loss, yearning
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    Phoebe Stone
    “Some people are just not meant to be in this world. It's just too much for them.”
    ― Phoebe Stone, The Boy on Cinnamon Street
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
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    J.K. Rowling
    “As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: choices, eternal-life, human-desire, immortality, money, wisdom
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    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muß man schweigen.”
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
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    Jim Morrison
    “A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.”
    ― Jim Morrison
    tags: freedom, friendship, jim-morrison
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  • #23
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: atheism
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    “I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.”
    ― Stephen Roberts
    tags: atheism, belief, deism, religion, scepticism
    224 likes

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    Lauren Bacall
    “When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise.”
    ― Lauren Bacall
    tags: acting, actors, tom-cruise
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    Lauren Bacall
    “You don’t always win your battles, but it’s good to know you fought”
    ― Lauren Bacall
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    Lauren Bacall
    “I am not a has-been. I am a will be.”
    ― Lauren Bacall
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    Lauren Bacall
    “I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.”
    ― Lauren Bacall
    tags: body-image, body-positivity, inspirational, self-esteem
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  • #29
    “I would rather have thirty minutes of wonderful, than a lifetime of nothing special.”
    ― Robert Harling, Steel Magnolias
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  • #30
    “smile, It increases your face value”
    ― Robert Harling, Steel Magnolias
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