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    Fernando Pessoa
    “I wasn’t meant for reality, but life came and found me.”
    ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
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    Fernando Pessoa
    “My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony.”
    ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
    tags: dna, noise, self, soul
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    Fernando Pessoa
    “The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are.”
    ― Fernando Pessoa
    tags: hope, longing, pain, regret, yearning
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    Sappho
    “Once again love drives me on, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet creature against which nothing can be done.”
    ― Sappho
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    Fernando Pessoa
    “Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
    ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
    tags: literature, reading, solitude
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    Ottessa Moshfegh
    “What about heaven, Ina? Don’t you want to go?’ ‘It doesn’t matter,’ she said. ‘I won’t know anyone.”
    ― Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona
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    Ottessa Moshfegh
    “When she asked the birds what to do, they answered that they didn't know anything about love, that love was a distinctly human defect which God had created to counterbalance the power of human greed.”
    ― Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona
    tags: defect, god, greed, love
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    Ottessa Moshfegh
    “She had indeed seen death and she was not afraid of it. What scared her were other people and their immovable selfishness.”
    ― Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona
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    Yōko Ogawa
    “Men who start by burning books end by burning other men,”
    ― Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: books, life, limits
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    Nell Stevens
    “The world is full of cowards she thinks. And it turns out sometimes the opposite of cowardice is playfulness.”
    ― Nell Stevens, Briefly, A Delicious Life
    tags: playfulness
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    Nell Stevens
    “The women that survived me! They stepped out of their houses into the daylight and if I'd had any breath I would have been breathless at the sight of them. The hands of women. The ankles of women. The voices of women as they called to each other across the square.”
    ― Nell Stevens, Briefly, A Delicious Life
    tags: sapphic, yearning
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    Nell Stevens
    “That was it. The bracket of her bent leg against the stones. The way her mouth angled around the cigar in a grimace that was almost a smile. The sight of a woman in a well-tailored jacket and trousers. Unexpected, unimagined. A prickling sensation. A stomach-dropping, blood-fizzing, breath-stopping, knotted lurch-and-swoop that I recognized, by then, as the first faltering step towards falling in love.”
    ― Nell Stevens, Briefly, A Delicious Life
    tags: butch, gender-identity, transgender
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    Nell Stevens
    “I had never seen anyone like her. That was the thing. No woman had ever been as definite, as robust. No woman, no man, nobody had ever been so much like themselves as she was.”
    ― Nell Stevens, Briefly, A Delicious Life
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    Nell Stevens
    “The hands of women. The ankles of women. The voices of women as they called to each other across the square. I could have kicked myself for not realizing it before.”
    ― Nell Stevens, Briefly, A Delicious Life
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    Fernando Pessoa
    “To be great, be whole;
    Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you.
    Be whole in everything. Put all you are
    Into the smallest thing you do.
    So, in each lake, the moon shines with splendor
    Because it blooms up above.”
    ― Fernando Pessoa, Poems of Fernando Pessoa
    tags: truth, wholeness
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    Blaise Pascal
    “Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.”
    ― Blaise Pascal, Pensées
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    René Descartes
    “Like a prisoner who dreams that he is free, starts to
    suspect that it is merely a dream, and wants to go on
    dreaming rather than waking up, so I am content to
    slide back into my old opinions; I fear being shaken out
    of them because I am afraid that my peaceful sleep may
    be followed by hard labour when I wake, and that I
    shall have to struggle not in the light but in the
    imprisoning darkness of the problems I have raised.”
    ― René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy, with Selections from the Objections and Replies
    tags: meditations-quotes
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    Claire Fuller
    “Beautiful on the surface, but look a little closer and everything is decaying, rotting, falling apart.”
    ― Claire Fuller, Bitter Orange: A Novel
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    Ottessa Moshfegh
    “that love was a
    distinctly human defect which God had created to counterbalance the power
    of human greed.”
    ― Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona
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    Ottessa Moshfegh
    “He went outside, desperate for something, anything—an embrace or a blow to the head.”
    ― Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona
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    Ottessa Moshfegh
    “She was, to him, a holy grace, far more powerful than any priest or nun. God lived in her eyes. That was how he had fallen for her—like a religious conversion. It had struck him the moment he’d seen her, a profound, eternal love, the kind that occurred by cause of fate, against reason.”
    ― Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona
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    Nell Stevens
    “What are you doing here and how can I persuade you to stay?”
    ― Nell Stevens, Briefly, A Delicious Life
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    David Hume
    “Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.”
    ― David Hume, Of the Standard of Taste and Other Essays
    tags: beauty, beholder, evil, god, perception, religion, religious-meaning
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    Vladimir Lenin
    “The feminine section of the proletarian army is of particularly great significance... the success of a revolution depends on the extent to which women take part in it.”
    ― Vladimir Lenin
    tags: communism, feminism, history, marxism, marxist-feminism, marxist-leninism, philosophy, politics, revolution, russian-revolution
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    Alice Walker
    “(a womanist)

    3. Loves music. Loves dance. Loves the moon. Loves the Spirit. Loves love and food and roundness. Loves struggle. Loves the Folk. Loves herself. Regardless.”
    ― Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose
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    Alice Walker
    “there was no sympathy for struggle that ended in defeat. Which meant there was no sympathy for struggle itself—only for “winning.”
    ― Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Prose
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    Ottessa Moshfegh
    “Blood was the wine of the spirit, was it not?”
    ― Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona
    tags: blood, spirit, wine
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    Ottessa Moshfegh
    “But such was death - it had nothing to say.”
    ― Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona
    tags: quotes
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    Ottessa Moshfegh
    “Marek lay back. He felt the warmth from the sun on his face, and felt his back relax a bit against the hard stone floor. 'Do you think my bones are right?' he asked Villiam.
    'Please, don't ask me about bones. Tonight, we will only talk about normal things.'
    Marek nodded. He had no idea what that meant. The wine had made him a bit softer in his mind, but no wiser.”
    ― Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona
    tags: bones, humour, lapvonian, moshfegh
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