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    Virginia Woolf
    “Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
    tags: growing-up, illusions, life
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Orlando
    tags: love, poetry, women
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: inspirational, women
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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
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
    tags: lost-innocence, memories
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  • #6
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside. ”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
    tags: failure, perseverance, tenacity
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  • #8
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
    tags: lies, love, respect, self-deception, truth
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
    tags: independent-thought, self-determination, self-expression
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
    tags: hell, love, suffering
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
    tags: hell, individualism, irony, selfishness, tea
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
    tags: happiness, man, trouble
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    Nikolai Gogol
    “The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.”
    ― Nikolai V. Gogol
    tags: humor, sadness
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    Nikolai Gogol
    “However stupid a fool's words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.”
    ― Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls
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  • #18
    Nikolai Gogol
    “We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.”
    ― Nikolai Gogol
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  • #19
    Nikolai Gogol
    “They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.”
    ― Nikolai Gogol, Diary of a Madman and Other Stories
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    Robert Walser
    “That is all very senseless, but this senselessness has a pretty mouth, and it smiles.”
    ― Robert Walser, Jakob von Gunten
    tags: senselessness, truth
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    Robert Walser
    “I don't want a future, I want a present. To me this appears of greater value. You have a future only when you have no present, and when you have a present, you forget to even think about the future.”
    ― Robert Walser, The Tanners
    tags: future, present, value
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    Robert Walser
    “One is always half mad when one is shy of people.”
    ― Robert Walser, Jakob von Gunten
    tags: shy
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    Robert Walser
    “When we realize that words can destroy something good, wonderful, and dear, and that by keeping silent we can avoid causing the least damage or harm, it’s easy to stay silent.”
    ― Robert Walser, Masquerade and Other Stories
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    Robert Walser
    “I'd like to die listening to a piece of music. I imagine this as so easy, so natural, but naturally it's quite impossible. Notes stab too softly. The wounds they leave behind may smart, but they don't fester. Melancholy and pain trickle out instead of blood. When the notes cease, all is peaceful within me again.”
    ― Robert Walser, Masquerade and Other Stories
    tags: death, melancholy, music, pain
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  • #25
    Robert Walser
    “make yourself invisible, or get busy with something.”
    ― Robert Walser, Jakob von Gunten
    tags: happy-camping, happy-playgrounds, the-mark-of-zero
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    Robert Walser
    “At least we should learn to understand our fellow beings, for we are powerless to stop their misery, their ignominy, their suffering, their weakness, and their death.”
    ― Robert Walser
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  • #27
    Percival Everett
    “Everybody should read fiction… I don’t think serious fiction is written for a few people. I think we live in a stupid culture that won’t educate its people to read these things. It would be a much more interesting place if it would. And it’s not just that mechanics and plumbers don’t read literary fiction, it’s that doctors and lawyers don’t read literary fiction. It has nothing to do with class, it has to do with an anti-intellectual culture that doesn’t trust art.”
    ― Percival Everett
    tags: bomb-2004
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  • #28
    Percival Everett
    “Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you.”
    ― Percival Everett, I Am Not Sidney Poitier
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  • #29
    Jim Harrison
    “It's very difficult to look at the World
    and into your heart at the same time.
    In between, a life has passed.”
    ― Jim Harrison, After Ikkyu & Other Poems
    tags: poetry
    33 likes



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