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#1

“I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

tags: love, love-quotes

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#2

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
― Franz Kafka

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#3

“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#4

“For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),
It's always our self we find in the sea.”
― e.e. cummings, 100 Selected Poems

tags: water

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#5

“My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

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#6

“I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.”
― Anais Nin

tags: anais-nin, inspirational, living, mermaids, no-fear, sea

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#7

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

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#8

“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more”
― Lord Byron

tags: nature, poetry, solitude

2883 likes

#9

“Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

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#10

“The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley

tags: kiss, love, nature

2559 likes

#11

“The past beats inside me like a second heart.”
― John Banville, The Sea

tags: memories, past

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#12

“In the summer
I stretch out on the shore
And think of you. Had I told the sea
What I felt for you,
It would have left its shores,
Its shells,
Its fish,
And followed me.”
― Nizar Qabbani

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#13

“I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

tags: happiness, life, sea

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#14

“But man is not made for defeat," he said. "A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

tags: defeat

2233 likes

#15

“When I see the sea once more, will the sea have seen or not seen me”
― G.I Jane

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#16

“And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on.”
― George Gordon Byron

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#17

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx

tags: books, humor, reading, television

23097 likes

#18

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: age, fairytales, growing-up

18125 likes

#19

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything

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#20

“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

20238 likes

#21

“I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music.”
― Johann Sebastian Bach

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#22

“The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.”
― Werner Heisenberg

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#23

“Let July be July. Let August be August. And let yourself just be even in the uncertainty. You don’t have to fix everything. You don’t have to solve everything. And you can still find peace and grow in the wild of changing things”
― Morgan Harper Nichols

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#24

“Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

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#25

“Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

tags: endurance, life, loss, love

2353 likes

#26

“In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody else. It's important to combine the two in just the right amount.”
― Haruki Murakami, After Dark

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#27

“Everything you can imagine is real.”
― Pablo Picasso

tags: art, imagination, inspirational, life

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#28

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

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#29

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

135508 likes

#30

“The arts are the only things that separate us from the other animals. The arts are not decorative. ... They are essential to our comprehension of consciousness and ourselves.”
― Edward Albee

tags: art, consciousness

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