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    Erich Maria Remarque
    “We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.”
    ― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
    tags: children, forlorn, lost, old, soldiers, sorrow, war
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    Thea von Harbou
    “The mediator between head and hands must be the heart!”
    ― Thea von Harbou, Metropolis
    tags: science-fiction-movie
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    Erich Maria Remarque
    “But now, for the first time, I see you are a man like me. I thought of your hand-grenades, of your bayonet, of your rifle; now I see your wife and your face and our fellowship. Forgive me, comrade. We always see it too late. Why do they never tell us that you are poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours, and that we have the same fear of death, and the same dying and the same agony--Forgive me, comrade; how could you be my enemy?”
    ― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
    tags: war
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    Erich Maria Remarque
    “We are not youth any longer. We don’t want to take the world by storm. We are fleeing. We fly from ourselves. From our life. We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces.”
    ― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
    tags: war, youth
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    Erich Maria Remarque
    “We have so much to say, and we shall never say it.”
    ― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
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    Stanisław Lem
    “What gave you this idea of an imperfect god?'

    'I don't know. It seems quite feasible to me. That is the only god I could imagine believing in, a god whose passion is not a redemption, who saves nothing, fulfills no purpose--a god who simply is.”
    ― Stanisław Lem, Solaris
    tags: belief, existence, existentialism, god, humanity, imperfection, mankind, no-purpose, purpose, religion, theology
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    Bram Stoker
    “I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.”
    ― Bram Stoker, Dracula
    tags: daydream, dracula, hopes, sea
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    Bram Stoker
    “..the world seems full of good men--even if there are monsters in it.”
    ― Bram Stoker, Dracula
    tags: evil, good
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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.”
    ― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
    tags: life
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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.”
    ― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
    tags: frankenstein, gothic, horror, mary-shelley
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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “The world was to me a secret which I desired to devine.”
    ― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
    tags: frankinstein
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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “I could not understand why men who knew all about good and evil could hate and kill each other.”
    ― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “if I see but one smile on your lips when we meet, occasioned by this or any other exertion of mine, I shall need no other happiness.”
    ― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “I looked upon the sea, it was to be my grave”
    ― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
    tags: death, frankenstein, grave, mary-shelley, ocean, sea
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    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    John Green
    “The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
    ― John Green, Looking for Alaska
    tags: compassion, life, suffering
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I am still so naïve; I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please, don’t ask me who I am. A passionate, fragmentary girl, maybe?”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I wonder why I don't go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no matter how tired, no matter how incoherent I am, I can skip on hour more of sleep and live.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: life, live, sleep, tomorrow
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    Erin Hanson
    “There is freedom waiting for you,
    On the breezes of the sky,
    And you ask "What if I fall?"
    Oh but my darling,
    What if you fly?”
    ― Erin Hanson
    tags: freedom, inspiration, poetry
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    Mark Twain
    “God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: americans, geography, war
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    Mark Twain
    “Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: heartbreak
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    Mark Twain
    “The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”
    ― Mark Twain, The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations
    tags: writing
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    Mark Twain
    “Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books-reading
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    Mark Twain
    “What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor, men, women
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    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “For you, a thousand times over”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
    tags: earnestness, gullibility, honesty
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs,
    Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini
    tags: man, men, woman, women
    2044 likes



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