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#1

“Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager.”
― Susan Sontag

tags: action, attention, concentration, connection, eagerness, inspiration, intelligence, observation, vitality

2085 likes

#2

“Once you've recognized your own limits, you've raised yourself to a higher level of being, since you're closer to the real you...”
― banana yoshimoto

tags: self-awareness, self-discovery

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#3

“Life offers up these moments of joy despite everything,”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

1152 likes

#4

“To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves--there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.”
― Joan Didion

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#5

“. . I wonder if I’ll ever be able to have what I like or if my tastes are too various to be sustained by one of anything.”
― Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

117 likes

#6

“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

12685 likes

#7

“I don't want to live, I want to love first and live incidentally.”
― Zelda Fitzgerald

tags: incidental, life, love

625 likes

#8

“Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be obtained only by someone who is detached. ”
― Simone Weil

tags: attachment, detachment, reality, simone-weil

365 likes

#9

“Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#10

“In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.”
― Patti Smith

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#11

“You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”
― Maya Angelou

tags: creativity

953 likes

#12

“I am always half in life, half in a fantastical version of it in my head.”
― Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

315 likes

#13

“I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.”
― bell hooks

583 likes

#14

“Instructions for living a life.
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.”
― Mary Oliver

tags: life-lessons

2742 likes

#15

“We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.”
― Judith Butler

tags: book-love, book-reading, books, reading

248 likes

#16

“Friendship was not an idea or a status you took for granted, but something you did, over and over:”
― Larry Mitchell, The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions

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