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#1

“You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

tags: character, misattributed, nobility

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#2

“If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

tags: crying, life, reality

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#3

“A slap in the face is more effective than ten lectures. It makes you understand very quickly.”
― Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Venus in Furs

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#4

“It’s awful to think that I shall probably never, as long as I live, see you dancing like that again all by yourself.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Vile Bodies

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#5

“I was once in love with my life here”
― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

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#6

“I thought that if the right time gets missed, if one has refused or been refused something for too long, it's too late, even if it is finally tackled with energy and received with joy. Or is there no such thing as "too late"? Is there only "late," and is "late" always better than "never"? I don't know.”
― Bernhard Schlink, The Reader

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#7

“In every part of my life, too, I stood outside myself and watched; I saw myself functioning at the university, with my parents and brother and sister and my friends, but inwardly I felt no involvement.”
― Bernhard Schlink, The Reader

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#8

“So I stopped talking about it. There’s no need to talk, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.”
― Bernhard Schlink, The Reader

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#9

“Now what I think of when I think of my “self” is the atrocious waste of my years.”
― Hari Kunzru, Red Pill

tags: self

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#10

“He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.”
― Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

tags: mediocrity

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#11

“...I will exile my thoughts if they think of you again, and I will rip my lips out if they say your name once more. Now if you do exist, I will tell you my final word in life or in death, I tell you goodbye.”
― Knut Hamsun, Hunger

tags: abandonment, frustration, torment

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#12

“The intelligent poor individual was a much finer observer than the intelligent rich one. The poor individual looks around him at every step, listens suspiciously to every word he hears from the people he meets; thus, every step he takes presents a problem, a task, for his thoughts and feelings. He is alert and sensitive, he is experienced, his soul has been burned...”
― Knut Hamsun, Hunger

tags: hunger, observer, poor

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#13

“An increasing number of people who lead mental lives of great intensity, people who are sensitive by nature, notice the steadily more frequent appearance in them of mental states of great strangeness ... a wordless and irrational feeling of ecstasy; or a breath of psychic pain; a sense of being spoken to from afar, from the sky or the sea; an agonizingly developed sense of hearing which can cause one to wince at the murmuring of unseen atoms; an irrational staring into the heart of some closed kingdom suddenly and briefly revealed.”
― Knut Hamsun

tags: nature

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#14

“There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it.”
― Knut Hamsum

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#15

“Og kjærligheten blev verdens ophav og verdens hersker, men alle dens veier er fulle av blomster og blod, blomster og blod.”
― Knut Hamsun, Victoria

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#16

“I felt pleasantly empty, untouched by everything around me and happy to be unseen by all.”
― Knut Hamsun, Hunger

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#17

“I'll exile my thoughts if they think of you again, and I will rip my lips out if they say your name once more. Now if you do exist, I will tell you my final word in life or in death, I tell you goodbye.”
― Knut Hamsun, Hunger

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#18

“If I happened to find a diamond one day, I would call it Dagny, because the very sound of your name thrills me. I only wish that I could forever hear your name, hear it spoken by all men and beasts, by every mountain and every star. I wish I were deaf to every sound except your name ringing in my ears day and night for the rest of my life.”
― Knut Hamsun, Mysteries

tags: eternal-love, in-love, madly-in-love

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#19

“you are absolutely the most ethereal, least sensual woman I ever knew to exist without inhuman sexlessness.”
― Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

tags: ethereal, sensual, sue-bridehead, woman

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#20

“She has a perfect body, and she's supposed to be sexy, but it doesn't turn me on. She has an ethereal sort of look to her, as though I'm looking at a piece of art. There is no carnal desire there -- just a bewitching beauty.”
― Hirukuma, Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon, Vol. 1

tags: beautiful-woman, beauty, bewitching, ethereal, reborn-as-a-vending-machine, sexual-attraction, shirley

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#21

“Blessed are those that know the path out of their carnal flesh, for they shall attain intuition.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: astral, astral-projection, chakra, cosmic, death, dream, dreaming, dreamy, ethereal, etheric, extrasensory-perception, flesh, fly, flying, hypnotism, innermind, intuition, magic, mantra, meditation, medium, michael-bassey-johnson, mind, mystic, mystical, obe, occult, occultism, otherworld, out-of-body, paranormal, psychic, silver-cord, soul-travel, superhuman, supernatural, telepathic, telepathy, trance, transcendence, unworldly

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#22

“I loved you. I was a pentapod monster, but I loved you. I was despicable and brutal, and turpid, and everything, mais je t’aimais, je t’aimais! And there were times when I knew how you felt, and it was hell to know it, my little one. Lolita girl, brave Dolly Schiller.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

tags: lolita

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