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    “I have never been entirely sure what the word "love" means. Especially when applied to myself.”
    ― Fredrick Pohl
    tags: beyond-the-blue-event-horizon, life-lessons-quotes, love-quotes
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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  • #4
    Pablo Picasso
    “Everything you can imagine is real.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
    tags: art, imagination, inspirational, life
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  • #5
    Mark Twain
    “Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: inspirational, kindness
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  • #6
    Margaret Atwood
    “Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
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  • #7
    I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
    “I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
    ― Sarah Williams
    tags: night, poetry
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  • #8
    Walt Whitman
    “Resist much, obey little.”
    ― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
    tags: poetry
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  • #9
    William Faulkner
    “Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.”
    ― William Faulkner, The Wild Palms
    tags: life-experience, poetry, sorrow
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  • #10
    Santosh Kalwar
    “I don't care what you say to me. I care what you share with me.”
    ― Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday
    tags: life-lessons, love, poetry, share
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  • #11
    Stephen King
    “Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: life
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  • #12
    Woody Allen
    “I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer.”
    ― Woody Allen
    tags: humor, life, sex
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  • #13
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Don't Just

    Don't just learn, experience.
    Don't just read, absorb.
    Don't just change, transform.
    Don't just relate, advocate.
    Don't just promise, prove.
    Don't just criticize, encourage.
    Don't just think, ponder.
    Don't just take, give.
    Don't just see, feel.
    Don’t just dream, do.
    Don't just hear, listen.
    Don't just talk, act.
    Don't just tell, show.
    Don't just exist, live.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
    tags: act, action, change, criticize, doing, dream, dreams, encouragement, experience, feeling, giving, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quote, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, learning, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-philosophy, life-quotes, listening, living, optimism, optimistic, ponder, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking, thinking, transform
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  • #14
    E.E. Cummings
    “Unbeing dead isn't being alive.”
    ― E. E. Cummings
    tags: death, life, poetry
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  • #15
    Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    “I bet you could sometimes find all the mysteries of the universe in someone's hand.”
    ― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
    tags: answers, love, true, universe
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  • #16
    G.K. Chesterton
    “Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions
    tags: cheese, poetry
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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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    Stephen Crane
    “In the Desert

    In the desert
    I saw a creature, naked, bestial,
    Who, squatting upon the ground,
    Held his heart in his hands,
    And ate of it.
    I said, “Is it good, friend?”
    “It is bitter—bitter,” he answered;

    “But I like it
    “Because it is bitter,
    “And because it is my heart.”
    ― Stephen Crane, The Black Riders and Other Lines
    tags: bitterness, heart, poetry
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  • #19
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: misquote, poetry
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  • #20
    David Mitchell
    “Trees're always a relief, after people.”
    ― David Mitchell, Black Swan Green
    tags: alienation, forest, humanity, nature, trees
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  • #21
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “Forest! They seek your trees to sleep among,
    With their long sentences hung. Forest!”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke, The Best of Rilke
    tags: forest
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  • #22
    Erol Ozan
    “You can't understand a city without using its public transportation system.”
    ― Erol Ozan
    tags: city, public-transit, transportation, travel, traveling-alone, urban, urban-life
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  • #23
    T.S. Eliot
    “Streets that follow like a tedious argument
    Of insidious intent
    To lead you to an overwhelming question...”
    ― T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems
    tags: city, street, streets
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  • #24
    J.G. Ballard
    “this was an environment built, not for man, but for man's absence.”
    ― J.G. Ballard, High-Rise
    tags: city, skyscraper
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    Nelson Algren
    “Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.”
    ― Nelson Algren, Chicago: City on the Make
    tags: chicago, city, october, spring
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    Truman Capote
    “Hot weather opens the skull of a city, exposing its white brain, and its heart of nerves, which sizzle like the wires inside a lightbulb. And there exudes a sour extra-human smell that makes the very stone seem flesh-alive, webbed and pulsing.”
    ― Truman Capote, Summer Crossing
    tags: alive, city, description, human, life, summer
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    Suman Pokhrel
    “I spry my closed vision over
    the streets of this city and the shadows lurching within it.”
    ― Suman Pokhrel
    tags: city, shadow, street, streets, vision
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  • #28
    Charles Dickens
    “We'll start to forget a place once we left it”
    ― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
    tags: city
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  • #29
    Louis L'Amour
    “To live in a city, one must be larger than one's environment or enjoy belonging to the crowd.”
    ― Louis L'Amour, The Lonesome Gods
    tags: city, crowd
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  • #30
    Patrick Modiano
    “Nice is a city of ghosts and specters, but I hope not to become one of them right away.”
    ― Patrick Modiano, Rue des Boutiques Obscures
    tags: city, ghost, imitation, nice
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