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    Poppy Z. Brite
    “The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4am knows all my secrets.”
    ― Poppy Z. Brite
    tags: insomnia, night, sleep
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room
    tags: melancholy, night, sad, winter
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    Anne Brontë
    “I love the silent hour of night,
    For blissful dreams may then arise,
    Revealing to my charmed sight
    What may not bless my waking eyes.”
    ― Anne Brontë, Best Poems of the Brontë Sisters
    tags: dreams, night, poetry
    868 likes

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  • #4
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: dark, stars
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    William Shakespeare
    “Love all, trust a few,
    Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
    Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
    Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
    But never tax'd for speech.”
    ― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well
    tags: do-wrong, love, trust, wrong
    37056 likes

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    Marilyn Monroe
    “If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, girls, love
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    Alfred Tennyson
    “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”
    ― Alfred Tennyson
    tags: friendship, love
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    Jane Austen
    “There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: friendship, love
    23057 likes

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    Jane Austen
    “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: husband, marriage, opening-lines, wife
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    Jodi Picoult
    “You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, Mercy
    tags: inequality, love, marriage
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë
    tags: companionship, loneliness, marriage, single, spinsterhood
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  • #12
    Rudyard Kipling
    “For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.”
    ― Rudyard Kipling
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  • #13
    Margaret Thatcher
    “In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.”
    ― Margaret Thatcher
    tags: gender-roles, gender-stereotypes, men, women
    3782 likes

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    Woody Allen
    “Men learn to love the woman they are attracted to. Women learn to become attracted to the man they fall in love with.”
    ― Woody Allen
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  • #15
    Stanley Baldwin
    “I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.”
    ― Stanley Baldwin
    tags: gender, gender-stereotypes, men-and-women, trust
    652 likes

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  • #16
    Terry Pratchett
    “The female mind is certainly a devious one, my lord."
    Vetinari looked at his secretary in surprise. "Well, of course it is. It has to deal with the male one.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Unseen Academicals
    tags: funny, gender-stereotypes, men-and-women
    784 likes

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    Isabel Allende
    “A man does what he can; a woman does what a man cannot.”
    ― Isabel Allende, Inés of My Soul
    tags: gender-stereotypes, men-and-women
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    J. Courtney Sullivan
    “Women leave their marriages when they can't take any more. Men leave when they find someone new.”
    ― J. Courtney Sullivan, Commencement
    tags: gender-stereotypes, leave, marriage, men-and-women
    156 likes

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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke
    tags: distance, life, loneliness, qotd, sense-of-wonder, universe
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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
    7845 likes

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  • #21
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre
    tags: loneliness, solitude
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  • #22
    Fernando Pessoa
    “Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
    ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
    tags: literature, reading, solitude
    4207 likes

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  • #23
    Aldous Huxley
    “The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”
    ― Aldous Huxley
    tags: introspection, solitude
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  • #24
    Lord Byron
    “There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
    There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
    There is society, where none intrudes,
    By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
    I love not man the less, but Nature more”
    ― Lord Byron
    tags: nature, poetry, solitude
    2881 likes

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  • #25
    Kazuo Ishiguro
    “Sometimes I get so immersed in my own company, if I unexpectedly run into someone I know, it's a bit of a shock and takes me a while to adjust.”
    ― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
    tags: 208, solitude
    1269 likes

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    Henry David Thoreau
    “I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
    tags: companions, company, privacy, solitude
    2349 likes

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  • #27
    Albert Camus
    “In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion."

    [The Minotaur]”
    ― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
    tags: introspection, retreat, solitude
    1925 likes

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  • #28
    Honoré de Balzac
    “Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.”
    ― Honoré de Balzac
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  • #29
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms
    tags: freedom, solitude
    2287 likes

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  • #30
    May Sarton
    “Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.”
    ― May Sarton
    tags: contentment, loneliness, solitude
    689 likes



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