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#1

“We must love one another or die”
― W.H. Auden

tags: love

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“For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.”
― D.H. Lawrence

tags: broken-heart, d-h-lawrence, love, pomegranate

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#3

“And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

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#4

“A word after a word after a word is power.”
― Margaret Atwood

tags: reading, writing

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#5

“I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.”
― Sharon Olds

tags: writing

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#6

“Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?”
― William Blake

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#7

“Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

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#8

“Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.”
― Gustave Flaubert

tags: inspirational, life, work

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#9

“I was wise enough never to grow up, while fooling people into believing I had.”
― Margaret Mead

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#10

“Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.”
― Moliere

tags: inspirational, patience

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#11

“Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.”
― Langston Hughes

tags: dreams, hope, inspiration, knowledge, wisdom

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#12

“The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

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#13

“The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I was in a dream.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road: The Original Scroll

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#14

“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”
― Robert Bloch

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#15

“We went down into the silent garden. Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the hour of silence. Everything is transfixed, only the light moves.”
― Leonora Carrington

tags: dawn, light, silence

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#16

“The heart is the toughest part of the body.
Tenderness is in the hands.”
― Carolyn Forché, The Country Between Us: The Achingly Sensual Political Poetry from a Journalist in El Salvador

tags: inspirational, love

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#17

“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”
― Benjamin Spock

tags: parenting, philosophy, self-assurance

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#18

“When I am an old woman I shall wear purple. With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me.”
― Jenny Joseph, Warning: When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple

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#19

“O, ah! The awareness of emptiness brings forth a heart of compassion!”
― Gary Snyder

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#20

“What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.”
― Walt Whitman

tags: poetry

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#21

“As he caught his footing, his head fell back, and the Milky Way flowed down inside him with a roar.”
― Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country

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#22

“You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help.”
― Bill Watterson

tags: bad-day, calvin-and-hobbes, luck

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#23

“The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”
― Anna Quindlen

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#24

“I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot. ”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: holden

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#25

“If death is this brilliant slide, this high, fine music felt as pure vibration, this plunging float in wind and silence, it's not so bad.”
― Jayne Anne Phillips

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#26

“How much does one imagine, how much observe? One can no more separate those functions than divide light from air, or wetness from water.”
― Elspeth Huxley, The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood

tags: filters

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#27

“When I am dead, I hope it may be said: "His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.”
― Hilaire Belloc

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#28

“The reality of what we really are is often times found in the small snips, way down at the bottom of things.”
― Jean Shepherd

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#29

“Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules.”
― Marvin Bell

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#30

“There is no sinner like a young saint.”
― Aphra Behn

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