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#1

“If you make a wish and if you keep on making the same wish, it will be granted. That's how strong human wishes are.”
― Clamp, xxxHOLiC, Vol. 13

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#2

“But I didn't understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.”
― Haruki Murakami

tags: depressing

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#3

“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

tags: memories

16595 likes

#4

“There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Mistral's Kiss

tags: depression, pain, trauma

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#5

“Living things are restrained by chains. The laws of nature, the flow of time, the vessel known as your “body”, and the existence called your mind. The one chain that people can wield, words.”
― CLAMP

tags: xxxholic

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#6

“To change yourself means to change the future.”
― CLAMP

tags: clamo, manga, xxxholic

94 likes

#7

“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”
― Confucius

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#8

“Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.”
― Benjamin Disraeli

tags: precious, time, truth

468 likes

#9

“There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.”
― Benjamin Disraeli

tags: attributed-no-source, lies, lying, misattributed-mark-twain, statistics, truth

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#10

“For my entire life I longed for love. I knew it was not right for me — as a girl and later as a woman — to want or expect it, but I did, and this unjustified desire has been at the root of every problem I have experienced in my life.”
― Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

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#11

“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
― Lloyd Alexander

7805 likes

#12

“Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables & Reflections

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#13

“We take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.”
― Cynthia Ozick

3191 likes

#14

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

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#15

“Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment. ”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

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#16

“What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for and to do it so unconsciously.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

tags: hurting-the-one-you-love, norwegian-wood, toru-watanabe

1287 likes

#17

“How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.”
― Evans G. Valens, The Other Side of the Mountain: The Story of Jill Kinmont

tags: misattributed-to-a-a-milne

8336 likes

#18

“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.”
― Joan Powers, Pooh's Little Instruction Book

tags: friendship, misattributed-a-a-milne

22185 likes

#19

“If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together... there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart... I'll always be with you.”
― Carter Crocker

tags: confidence

9660 likes

#20

“Some people care too much. I think it's called love.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

8700 likes

#21

“Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.”
― A.A. Milne

3467 likes

#22

“I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

2239 likes

#23

“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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#24

“The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
― Bob Marley

tags: friendship

24413 likes

#25

“Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.”
― Mitch Albom

tags: death, immortality, love

2071 likes

#26

“Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself.”
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

tags: on-fiction, parables, storytelling

1547 likes

#27

“Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

tags: storytelling

604 likes

#28

“Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.”
― A.A. Milne

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#29

“Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.”
― George Orwell, Why I Write

tags: writing

1357 likes

#30

“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-marilyn-monroe

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