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    Anne Frank
    “Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.”
    ― Anne Frank
    tags: candle, darkness, illumination, misattributed
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    Paulo Coelho
    “How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, Brida
    tags: fear, life, opportunity
    1355 likes

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    Maggie Nelson
    “229. I am writing all this down in blue ink, so as to remember that all words, not just some, are written in water.”
    ― Maggie Nelson, Bluets
    tags: poetry
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    Jenny Slate
    “I'd rather live with a tender heart, because that is the key to feeling the beat of all of the other hearts.”
    ― Jenny Slate, Little Weirds
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    Jenny Slate
    “I take it as a sign that it is all right to be alive as I am, just as I am, and to keep trying.”
    ― Jenny Slate, Little Weirds
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    “Pylades: I’ll take care of you.
    Orestes: It’s rotten work.
    Pylades: Not to me. Not if it’s you.”
    ― Anne Carson, Euripides
    tags: an-oresteia, orestes
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    Anne Carson
    “Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.”
    ― Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red
    tags: movement, words, writing
    318 likes

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    Anne Carson
    “What would it be like
    to live in a library
    of melted books.

    With sentences streaming over the floor
    and all the punctuation
    settled to the bottom as a residue.

    It would be confusing.
    Unforgivable.
    A great adventure.”
    ― Anne Carson
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    Anne Carson
    “The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbola never perfectly match. Eros is in between.”
    ― Anne Carson, Eros the Bittersweet
    tags: love, lovers, words
    165 likes

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    Anne Carson
    “Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.”
    ― Anne Carson
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    Clarice Lispector
    “I want the following word: splendor, splendor is fruit in all its succulence, fruit without sadness. I want vast distances. My savage intuition of myself.”
    ― Clarice Lispector, The Stream of Life
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    Clarice Lispector
    “Everything in the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born.”
    ― Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star
    tags: life-universe-creation
    367 likes

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    Clarice Lispector
    “So long as I have questions to which there are no answers, I shall go on writing.”
    ― Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star
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    Clarice Lispector
    “Things were somehow so good that they were in danger of becoming very bad because what is fully mature is very close to rotting”
    ― Clarice Lispector, A Hora da Estrela
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    Clarice Lispector
    “I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort”
    ― Clarice Lispector, A Hora da Estrela
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    Clarice Lispector
    “Do you ever suddenly find it strange to be yourself?”
    ― Clarice Lispector, A Breath of Life
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    Clarice Lispector
    “It is because I dove into the abyss that I am beginning to love the abyss I am made of.”
    ― Clarice Lispector
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    Clarice Lispector
    “She believed in angels, and, because she believed, they existed”
    ― Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star
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    Clarice Lispector
    “I am only true when I’m alone.”
    ― Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star
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    Clarice Lispector
    “But don't forget, in the meantime, that this is the season for strawberries. Yes.”
    ― Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star
    89 likes

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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
    12756 likes

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    Virginia Woolf
    “Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?”
    ― Virginia Woolf
    tags: men, rescuing, women
    4583 likes

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    Virginia Woolf
    “Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts
    tags: books, metaphor, soul
    5697 likes

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    Virginia Woolf
    “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: food, love
    4408 likes

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    Virginia Woolf
    “Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
    tags: writing
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    Virginia Woolf
    “As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
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    Virginia Woolf
    “When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?”
    ― Virginia Woolf
    tags: life
    2674 likes

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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
    2619 likes

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    Virginia Woolf
    “No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own / Three Guineas
    tags: calming, reassuring, true
    2339 likes

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  • #30
    Virginia Woolf
    “Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
    tags: growing-up, illusions, life
    2072 likes



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