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“But I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

tags: birth-of-desire, birth-of-ideas, contrast, feel-inspired, get-ideas, get-inspired, inspiration, where-ideas-come-from

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“I can’t exactly describe how I feel but it’s not quite right. And it leaves me cold.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

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#3

“I want to die violently instead of fading out sentimentally.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

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#4

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: books, morality, reading

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#5

“There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.”
― James Joyce

tags: future, joyce, past, present

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#6

“Unsheathe your dagger definitions; Horseness is the Whatness of All Horse...”
― James Joyce

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#7

“An exquisite dulcet epithalame of most mollificative suadency for juveniles amatory whom the odoriferous flambeaus of the paranymphs have escorted to the quadrupedal proscenium of connubial communion.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

tags: who-knows

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#8

“I am, a stride at a time”
― James Joyce

tags: ulysses

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#9

“Come what might she would be wild, untrammelled, free.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

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#10

“There's music along the river
For Love wanders there,
Pale flowers on his mantle,
Dark leaves on his hair.”
― James Joyce, Chamber Music

tags: love

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#11

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything

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#12

“Unsheathe your dagger definitions.”
― James Joyce

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#13

“Who would not be pleased at carrying lamps helpfully through the darkness?”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

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#15

“There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people if he's any good.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

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#16

“Blessed are the dead that the rain falls on”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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#16

“Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: adolescence, attributed, attributed-no-source, prejudice

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#17

“And I realize how useless wails are and how gratuitous melancholy is.”
― Mircea Eliade, Le Roman de l'adolescent myope

tags: melancholy, wails

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#18

“It’s a thorny road for dreamers and poets who fantasize of majestic places and deep-seated desires of the heart that their hands may never hold.”
― Terry a O'Neal

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#19

“Rose, oh pure contradiction, joy
of being No-one's sleep under so many
lids.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

tags: pretty, roses

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#21

“I was wild and tame and pulled into shreds and crushed into being all at once.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver

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#22

“Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

tags: anchoring, attachment, belonging, comfort, completion, fulfillment, home, irrevocability, permanence, philosophy, psychology, safety, security, state-of-mind

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#22

“Wings of a half finished book across his chest.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

tags: description, poetic

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#22

“Adrift in a sea of madness, the sextant is broken, but I can still see the stars.”
― Jack G. Bowman

tags: poetic

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#23

“A good friend will always stab you in the front.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: friends-betrayal

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#24

“Random questions are the least random of all questions.”
― John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

tags: random-questions

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#25

“He was outwardly calm but inwardly bleeding to death.”
― Matthew Pearl, The Dante Club

tags: poetic, tragic

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#25

“The unwelcome November rain had perversely stolen the day's last hour and pawned it with that ancient fence, the night.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

tags: night, poetic, rain

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#26

“Bring me the sunset in a cup.”
― Emily Dickinson

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#26

“Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?”
― Sigmund Freud

tags: psychology, thoughts

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#27

“A blank canvas...has unlimited possibilities.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Isla and the Happily Ever After

tags: art, canvas, contemporary, contemporary-romance, isla-and-the-happily-ever-after, stephanie-perkins, teen-fiction, ya

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