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“The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand”
― Italo Calvino

tags: city, memory

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“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

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“Eye contact was a delicate matter. A quarter second of a shared glance was a violation of agreements that made the city operational.”
― Don DeLillo, Cosmopolis

tags: city

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“when I become death. Death is the seed from which I grow.”
― William S. Burroughs

tags: burroughs, city, dead, death, radio, william

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“It is a kind of dizzying comfort to contemplate the open abyss when, at the bottom of that abyss, lies nothingness.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

tags: alexandre-dumas, despair, heartbreak, suicide, the-count-of-monte-cristo

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“Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine. First they were driving through countryside, then, imperceptibly, the occasional town became a low suburban sprawl, and the sprawl became the city.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

tags: chicago, city, countryside, migraine, suburbs

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“...In little more than a single century from 1820 to 19450, no less than fifty-nine million human animals were killed in inter-group clashes of one sort or another.... We describe these killings as men behaving "like animals," but if we could find a wild animal that showed signs of acting this way, it would be more precise to describe it as behaving like men.”
― Desmond Morris, The Human Zoo: A Zoologist's Study of the Urban Animal

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“Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.”
― Desmond Morris

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#9

“The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

tags: beauty, lonliness, solitude

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“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”
― Aldous Huxley

tags: introspection, solitude

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“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms

tags: freedom, solitude

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#12

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

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#13

“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: imagination, life, money

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#14

“Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.”
― Edgar Allen Poe

tags: death, poetry

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#15

“I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: melancholy

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#16

“Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.”
― Edgar Allen Poe

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#17

“Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: death, sleep

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#18

“When asked, "Why do you always wear black?", he said, "I am mourning for my life.”
― Anton Chekhov

tags: astringent, satire

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#19

“Love loves to love love.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

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#20

“Shut your eyes and see.”
― James Joyce

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#21

“The only journey is the one within.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

tags: introspection, journey, self-discovery, within

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#22

“We have art in order not to die of the truth.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: art

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“I have lived a thousand lives and I’ve loved a thousand loves. I’ve walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read.”
― George R.R. Martin

tags: books, george-r-r-martin

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#24

“There are no facts, only interpretations.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: dance, music

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#26

“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
― Albert Camus

tags: humanity, life, mankind, mortality

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“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
― Albert Camus

tags: human-nature, man, mankind, philosophy

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“I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

tags: bonds, friendship, solitude

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“Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?”
― James Joyce, The Dead

tags: love

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#30

“Why is it that man flourishes more in imagination than in reality?”
― George Peros, FAMINE: A Sequence

tags: existentialism, hunger, philosophy

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