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#1

“... i didn't fall in love of course
it's never up to you
but she was walking back and forth
and i was passing through”
― Leonard Cohen, Book of Longing

tags: falling-in-love, love

246 likes

#2

“How bitter were
the Prozac pills
of the last
few hundred mornings”
― Leonard Cohen, Book of Longing

tags: bitter, pills, prozac

101 likes

#3

“I know she is coming
I know she will look
And that is the longing
And this is the book.”
― Leonard Cohen, Book of Longing

tags: longing

49 likes

#4

“How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?”
― Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers

676 likes

#5

“Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.”
― Leonard Cohen, The Favorite Game

tags: regrets, scars, wounds

604 likes

#6

“Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book."

(Acceptance speech, National Book Award 2010 (Nonfiction), November 17, 2010)”
― Patti Smith

tags: books, materialism, musicians, pure-awesome, technology

721 likes

#7

“Who can know the heart of youth but youth itself?”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids

tags: youth

213 likes

#8

“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
― Albert Camus

tags: human-nature, man, mankind, philosophy

10769 likes

#9

“Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”
― Albert Camus

tags: attributed-no-source

7127 likes

#10

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

tags: humanity, life, mankind, mortality

7354 likes

#11

“Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.”
― Woody Allen

tags: art, humor, life

2457 likes

#12

“It's a match made in heaven...by a retarded angel.”
― Woody Allen

tags: absurd

931 likes

#13

“Those who can't do, teach. And those who can't teach, teach gym.”
― Woody Allen, Annie Hall: Screenplay

233 likes

#14

“I feel that life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. That's the two categories. The horrible are like, I don't know, terminal cases, you know, and blind people, crippled. I don't know how they get through life. It's amazing to me. And the miserable is everyone else. So you should be thankful that you're miserable, because that's very lucky, to be miserable.”
― Woody Allen, Annie Hall: Screenplay

tags: humour, life

962 likes

#15

“It reminds me of that old joke- you know, a guy walks into a psychiatrist's office and says, hey doc, my brother's crazy! He thinks he's a chicken. Then the doc says, why don't you turn him in? Then the guy says, I would but I need the eggs. I guess that's how I feel about relationships. They're totally crazy, irrational, and absurd, but we keep going through it because we need the eggs.”
― Woody Allen, Annie Hall: Screenplay

361 likes

#16

“You know how you're always trying to get things to come out perfect in art because it's real difficult in life”
― Woody Allen, Annie Hall: Screenplay

tags: creativity, perfection, reality

57 likes

#17

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: inspirational

10939 likes

#18

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: truth

16204 likes

#19

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

tags: animal-farm

7675 likes

#20

“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”
― George Orwell

4321 likes

#21

“The stars are a free show; it don’t cost anything to use your eyes”
― George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London

158 likes

#22

“Never memorize something that you can look up.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: humor, science

11414 likes

#23

“But what can be done, the one who loves must share the fate of the one he loves.”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

tags: devotion, fate, love

551 likes

#24

“Cowardice is the most terrible of vices.”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

tags: author, creativity, freedom, writer

488 likes

#25

“Who has not asked himself at some time or other: am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person?”
― Clarice Lispector, A Hora da Estrela

997 likes

#26

“Things were somehow so good that they were in danger of becoming very bad because what is fully mature is very close to rotting”
― Clarice Lispector, A Hora da Estrela

293 likes

#27

“I am only true when I’m alone.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

100 likes

#28

“How was she to tie herself to a man without permitting him to imprison her? And was there some means of acquiring things without those things possessing her?”
― Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart

101 likes

#29

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

tags: happiness

15053 likes

#30

“All great and precious things are lonely.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

tags: loneliness

4241 likes

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