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    Toni Morrison
    “There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.”
    ― Toni Morrison
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    Ray Bradbury
    “Why is it," he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?"
    "Because I like you," she said, "and I don't want anything from you.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
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    Ray Bradbury
    “If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
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    Ray Bradbury
    “The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
    tags: imagination, quality, skill, writers, writing
    1273 likes

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    Albert Camus
    “And never have I felt so deeply
    at one and the same time so detached from myself and so present in the world.”
    ― Albert Camus
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    Toni Morrison
    “If happiness is anticipation with certainty, we were happy.”
    ― Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
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    Toni Morrison
    “We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.”
    ― Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
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    Toni Morrison
    “Lonely was much better than alone.”
    ― Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
    tags: solitude
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    Toni Morrison
    “Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe. There is no gift for the beloved. The lover alone possesses his gift of love. The loved one is shorn, neutralized, frozen in the glare of the lover’s inward eye.”
    ― Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
    tags: truth, values
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
    tags: aspirations, castles-in-the-air, dreams, foundations, futility, goals, security, work-lost
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
    tags: nature
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
    tags: earth, heaven, heavenly, nature
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
    tags: conformity, fashion, generation
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “for my greatest skill has been to want but little.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes. If there is not a new man, how can the new clothes be made to fit? If you have any enterprise before you, try it in your own clothes.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
    tags: breath, existence
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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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    Sylvia Plath
    “If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
    tags: neurosis
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    Sylvia Plath
    “When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn’t know.
    "Oh, sure you know," the photographer said.
    "She wants," said Jay Cee wittily, "to be everything.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
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    Sylvia Plath
    “To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
    tags: sylvia-plath, ted-hughes, the-bell-jar
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
    tags: chaos, emptiness, normalcy, numbness, stillness
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    Ray Bradbury
    “Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
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    Ray Bradbury
    “We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
    tags: reality-bothered
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    Ray Bradbury
    “Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
    tags: life, living
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    Ray Bradbury
    “We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
    tags: friendship, heart, kindness
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    Ray Bradbury
    “I'll hold on to the world tight some day. I've got one finger on it now; that's a beginning.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
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    Ray Bradbury
    “Oh God, the terrible tyranny of the majority. We all have our harps to play. And it's up to you to know with which ear you'll listen.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
    tags: democracy, diversity, minorities
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    Ray Bradbury
    “See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask for no guarantees, ask for no security.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
    tags: tourism, travel
    450 likes



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