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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely—at least, not all the time—but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
    tags: alone, birth, death, growing-up, growth, life, lonely, love, self-respect
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    Terry Pratchett
    “I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?"
    Death thought about it.
    CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Sourcery
    tags: cats, death, life
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    Markus Zusak
    “A small but noteworthy note. I've seen so many young men over the years who think they're running at other young men. They are not. They are running at me.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
    tags: death, war
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    John Dryden
    “Secret guilt is by silence revealed.”
    ― John Dryden
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    John Dryden
    “There is a pleasure sure in being mad which none but madmen know.”
    ― Dryden
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    John Dryden
    “Great wits are to madness near allied
    And thin partitions do their bounds divide.”
    ― John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel
    tags: madness, misattributed-to-alexander-pope, partitions, wits
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    Philip K. Dick
    “It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
    ― Philip K. Dick, VALIS
    tags: qotd
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    Aristotle
    “No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: aristotle, genius, great-minds, madness
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    Kahlil Gibran
    “I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.”
    ― Kahlil Gibran, The Madman
    tags: freedom, madman, madness, safety
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    Kahlil Gibran
    “My friend, I am not what I seem. Seeming is but a garment I wear — a care-woven garment that protects me from thy questionings and thee from my negligence. The "I" in me, my friend, dwells in the house of silence, and therein it shall remain for ever more, unperceived, unapproachable.”
    ― Khalil Gibran, The Madman
    tags: identity, silence
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    Jim Henson
    “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”
    ― Jim Henson
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    Alfred Tennyson
    “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”
    ― Alfred Tennyson
    tags: friendship, love
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  • #13
    “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
    ― Marthe Troly-Curtin, Phrynette Married
    tags: happiness, misattributed-john-lennon, procrastination, time
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    Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.”
    ― Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
    tags: healing, pain, remembrance, scars, time
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I sit beside the fire and think
    Of all that I have seen
    Of meadow flowers and butterflies
    In summers that have been

    Of yellow leaves and gossamer
    In autumns that there were
    With morning mist and silver sun
    And wind upon my hair

    I sit beside the fire and think
    Of how the world will be
    When winter comes without a spring
    That I shall ever see

    For still there are so many things
    That I have never seen
    In every wood in every spring
    There is a different green

    I sit beside the fire and think
    Of people long ago
    And people that will see a world
    That I shall never know

    But all the while I sit and think
    Of times there were before
    I listen for returning feet
    And voices at the door”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: life, time
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: books, morality, reading
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”
    ― Oscar Wilde (attributed to)
    tags: classic-insult
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    Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
    “Well-behaved women seldom make history.”
    ― Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History
    tags: inspirational, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt, women
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: freedom, women, writing
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    Nora Ephron
    “Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”
    ― Nora Ephron
    tags: courage, empowerment, self-determination, women
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    Jane Austen
    “I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.”
    ― Jane Austen, Persuasion
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    D.H. Lawrence
    “A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.”
    ― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover
    tags: life, living, philosophy, women
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    Anaïs Nin
    “How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?”
    ― Anais Nin
    tags: independence, women
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    Mae West
    “Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: chivalry, men, protection, relationships, women
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    Lilith Saintcrow
    “Better to be strong than pretty and useless.”
    ― Lilith Saintcrow, Strange Angels
    tags: girls, inspirational, pretty, strength, women
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    Cheris Kramarae
    “Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings.”
    ― Cheris Kramarae
    tags: feminism, women
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    Virginia Woolf
    “As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Orlando
    tags: clichés, dignity, double-standards, empowerment, feminism, gender, hypocrisy, intelligence, men, misogyny, self-determination, social-norms, stereotypes, thought, women
    2603 likes

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    Masashi Kishimoto
    “She's strong! And scary...I bet she's single...I'd put money on it..”
    ― Masashi Kishimoto, Naruto, Vol. 18: Tsunade's Choice
    tags: funny, manga, naruto, women
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    Jessica Valenti
    “What’s the worst possible thing you can call a woman? Don’t hold back, now.
    You’re probably thinking of words like slut, whore, bitch, cunt (I told you not to hold back!), skank.
    Okay, now, what are the worst things you can call a guy? Fag, girl, bitch, pussy. I’ve even heard the term “mangina.”
    Notice anything? The worst thing you can call a girl is a girl. The worst thing you can call a guy is a girl. Being a woman is the ultimate insult. Now tell me that’s not royally fucked up.”
    ― Jessica Valenti, Full Frontal Feminism
    tags: double-standards, eye-opening, feminism, gender-inequality, insults, men, names, sexism, woman, womanhood, women
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    William Shakespeare
    “Dispute not with her: she is lunatic.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Richard III
    tags: insanity, women
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