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    Oscar Wilde
    “Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: aesthetics, appreciation, hidden-things
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: disappointment, dorian-gray, marriage, men, relationships, women
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: art, painting
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am tired of myself tonight. I should like to be somebody else.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: ennui
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always! That is a dreadful word. It makes me shudder when I hear it. Women are so fond of using it. They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever. It is a meaningless word, too. The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: caprice, passion
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    Oscar Wilde
    “We women, as some one says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes, if you ever love at all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: men-and-women
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    Oscar Wilde
    “What fire does not destroy, it hardens”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: inspirational, spiritual-growth
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    Oscar Wilde
    “He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: fugitive
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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    Oscar Wilde
    “You told me you had destroyed it."

    "I was wrong. It has destroyed me.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: oscar-wilde, the-picture-of-dorian-gray
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  • #11
    Pablo Neruda
    “Tonight I can write the saddest lines
    I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.”
    ― Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
    tags: love, sadness
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    Salvador Plascencia
    “I don’t know what they are called, the spaces between seconds– but I think of you always in those intervals.”
    ― Salvador Plascencia, The People of Paper
    tags: longing, love, sadness
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    Yann Martel
    “When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.”
    ― Yann Martel, Life of Pi
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    Vincent van Gogh
    “The sadness will last forever.”
    ― Vincent van Gogh
    tags: forever, sadness, van-gogh, vincent-van-goghogh
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    Douglas Coupland
    “Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.”
    ― Douglas Coupland, Shampoo Planet
    tags: irony, life, loneliness
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre
    tags: loneliness, solitude
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  • #17
    John Steinbeck
    “All great and precious things are lonely.”
    ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
    tags: loneliness
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    Charles Bukowski
    “being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Women
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    Vincent van Gogh
    “A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke”
    ― Vincent Van Gogh
    tags: loneliness, passion
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    Sylvia Plath
    “How we need another soul to cling to.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: amity, companionship, loneliness
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    W.S. Merwin
    “Separation

    Your absence has gone through me
    Like thread through a needle.
    Everything I do is stitched with its color.”
    ― W.S. Merwin
    tags: influence, loneliness, loss, poetry
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    David Levithan
    “It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.”
    ― David Levithan, Every Day
    tags: ignored, loneliness
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    Philip K. Dick
    “I'm not much but I'm all I have.”
    ― Philip K Dick, Martian Time-Slip
    tags: loneliness, optimism, responsibility, time
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  • #24
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “To forget a friend is sad. Not everyone has had a friend.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: loneliness
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    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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  • #26
    Jane Austen
    “In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride And Prejudice
    tags: love, mr-darcy
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    Jane Austen
    “The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!”
    ― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
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    Jane Austen
    “There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: elizabeth-bennet, jane-austen
    7911 likes

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    Jane Austen
    “You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.”
    ― Jane Austen, Persuasion
    tags: romantic
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    Jane Austen
    “There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    4995 likes



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