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    Franz Kafka
    “Written kisses don't reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.”
    ― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
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    Franz Kafka
    “sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man
    the most guilty.”
    ― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
    tags: kafka, man, sleep
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    Franz Kafka
    “I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.”
    ― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
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    Franz Kafka
    “If I could drown in sleep as I drown in fear I would be no longer alive.”
    ― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
    tags: anxiety
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    Franz Kafka
    “I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.”
    ― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
    tags: kafka
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    Jon Krakauer
    “Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.”
    ― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
    tags: love
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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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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    Sylvia Plath
    “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
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    Sylvia Plath
    “And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: writing
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
    tags: ecstasy, happiness, nature
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    Sylvia Plath
    “Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.”
    ― sylvia plath
    tags: goals
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    Sylvia Plath
    “The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
    tags: depression-silence
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
    I lift my eyes and all is born again.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
    tags: poetry
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I desire the things which will destroy me in the end.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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    Sylvia Plath
    “Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little? For all my despair, for all my ideals, for all that - I love life. But it is hard, and I have so much - so very much to learn.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Journals of Sylvia Plath
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    Thomas Paine
    “It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man.”
    ― Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
    tags: belief, bible, cruel, cruelty, murder, rapine, the-bible
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    Thomas Paine
    “I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.

    All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.”
    ― Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
    tags: church, creed, enslave, greek, human-invention, jewish, monopolize, power, profit, protestant, religion, roman, turkish
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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
    “It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
    tags: intelligence, intelligent-action
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
    tags: life, perspective, social-norms, society
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    Osamu Dazai
    “For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the expression on people's faces.”
    ― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human
    tags: depression, fear, friendship, human-relationships, life, loneliness, mental-illness, social-anxiety, social-awkwardness, trust
    778 likes

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    Osamu Dazai
    “What did he mean by "society"? The plural of human beings?”
    ― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human
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    Osamu Dazai
    “The weak fear happiness itself.”
    ― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
    149277 likes

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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “I think... if it is true that
    there are as many minds as there
    are heads, then there are as many
    kinds of love as there are hearts.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: care, diversity, heart, individuality, love, mind, seduction, soul
    5718 likes

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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: grief, inspirational
    2882 likes



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