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    Allen Saunders
    “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
    ― Allen Saunders
    tags: fate, life, misattributed-john-lennon, planning, plans
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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  • #3
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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  • #4
    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: inspirational, love
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  • #5
    Osamu Dazai
    “I yearned for everything long gone.”
    ― Osamu Dazai, Schoolgirl
    tags: longing, osamu-dazai, sadness
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  • #6
    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor
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  • #7
    Albert Camus
    “Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: human-nature, man, mankind, philosophy
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  • #8
    John Green
    “As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: love
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    Hanya Yanagihara
    “We are so old, we have become young again.”
    ― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
    tags: a-little-life, cyclical, hanya-yanagihara, old, reverting, young
    130 likes

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  • #10
    Hanya Yanagihara
    “It's a good story,' he said. He even grinned at me. 'I'll tell you.'

    'Please,' I said.

    And then he did.”
    ― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
    tags: a-little-life, bittersweet, ending, hanya-yanagihara, last-lines, sad, story, the-end
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    Hanya Yanagihara
    “He will be someone who is defined, first and always, by what he is missing.”
    ― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
    tags: a-little-life, hanya-yanagihara, missing, sad
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  • #12
    Hanya Yanagihara
    “He sits at the table and reads novels, old favorites of his, the words and plots and characters comforting and lived-in and unchanged.”
    ― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
    tags: a-little-life, books, comforting, favorites, hanya-yanagihara, novels
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  • #13
    Hanya Yanagihara
    “You spent so much time explaining yourself, your work to others—what it meant, what you were trying to accomplish, why you had chosen the colors and subject matter and materials and application and technique that you had—that it was a relief to simply be with another person to whom you didn’t have to explain anything.”
    ― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
    tags: a-little-life, hanya-yanagihara
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    Hanya Yanagihara
    “I was aware that I had been looking for him on every street, in every crowd.”
    ― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
    tags: a-little-life, hanya-yanagihara, looking, searching
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  • #15
    Hanya Yanagihara
    “Are you happy? he once asked Jude (they must have been drunk).

    I don't think happiness is for me, Jude had said at last, as if Willem had been offering him a dish he didn't want to eat.

    But it's for you, Willem.”
    ― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
    tags: a-little-life, jude-st-francis, melancholic, willem-and-jude
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    Hanya Yanagihara
    “There were times when the pressure to achieve happiness felt almost oppressive, as if happiness were something that everyone should and could attain, that any sort of compromise in its pursuit was somehow your fault.”
    ― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
    tags: a-little-life, hanya-yanagihara
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  • #17
    Hanya Yanagihara
    “To me, the thing about friendship that makes it so singular is that it’s a relationship that’s central to our identity in that it doesn’t necessarily benefit us in any tangible way. It’s a relationship we don’t have to pursue – if we decide to stop being friends one day, nothing will happen, no one’s there to legislate or adjudicate it. It’s two people who every day choose to keep it going, and in that way it’s very powerful because it’s one you choose to work on, and you choose to without any agreement; it’s an unspoken bond.”
    ― Hanya Yanagihara
    tags: a-little-life, friendship, hanya-yanagihara, interview, relationships
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    Hanya Yanagihara
    “But then, once you agree, it is necessary that you, the cajoler, move into the realm of self-deception, because you can see that it is costing them, you can see how much they don't want to be here, you can see that the act of existing is depleting for them, and then you have to tell yourself every day: I am doing the right thing.”
    ― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
    tags: a-little-life, depression, hanya-yanagihara, suicidal, suicide-watch
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    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time.”
    ― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak
    tags: death, inspirational, voice
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    Herbert Hoover
    “Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.”
    ― Herbert Hoover
    tags: age, death, fighting, old-age, war, youth
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: death, life
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  • #22
    Victor Hugo
    “Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”
    ― Victor Hugo
    tags: literature, music, poetry
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  • #23
    Frank Zappa
    “Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: music, philosophy, progress
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  • #24
    Benjamin Spock
    “Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”
    ― Benjamin Spock
    tags: parenting, philosophy, self-assurance
    5377 likes

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  • #25
    Lao Tzu
    “Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.”
    ― Lao Tsu, Tao Teh Ching
    tags: philosophy, wayfinding
    3471 likes

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  • #26
    Santosh Kalwar
    “We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change our thinking.”
    ― Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday
    tags: addiction, life-lessons, philosophy, thinking, thoughts
    3196 likes

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  • #27
    Confucius
    “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
    ― Confucius
    tags: complexity, philosophy, simplicity
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  • #28
    Socrates
    “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: philosophy
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  • #29
    Ayn Rand
    “The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.”
    ― Ayn Rand
    tags: freedom-of-thought, philosophy, politics, rights
    1691 likes

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  • #30
    Norton Juster
    “Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.”
    ― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
    tags: philosophy
    1430 likes



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