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#1

“I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

tags: self

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#2

“Of course, he showed me this one afternoon when he was skipping class. When trolls cut classes, you think they are losers. When the beautiful and/or reasonably erudite do the same thing to sit on the library steps and read poetry, you think they are on to something deep. You see only deep brown wavy hair and strong legs, well honed by years of Ultimate Frisbee. You see that book of T. S. Eliot poems held by the hand with the long, graceful fingers, and you never stop to think that it shouldn't take half a semester to read one book of poems... that maybe he is not so much reading as getting really high every morning and sleeping it off on the library steps, forcing the people who actually go to class to step or trip over him.”
― Maureen Johnson, Zombies Vs. Unicorns

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#4

“I always knew there was no one who is going to accept my flaws and understand my brokenness.And i knew it very well that nobody would hold my hand when the wind of darkness overcome my life so i just pushed them,i pushed them all away.”
― Bazil Carl W Chong Derek Friedman Daniel

tags: adam-and-eve, bold-love, boneless, breakup, breathless, cheat, cheated, cheating, cheating-in-relationship, cheating-spouse, eye-contact, god-of-love, good-partners, heart-attack, heart-break, heartache, heartless, helpless-love, helpless-lover, hero-of-the-story, holding-hands, incomplete-love-story, life-lessons, lifeless, love-life, love-life-death, love-marriage, love-series, love-with-wisdom, loving-someone, my-life, my-story, personal-life, poisoness, puppy-love, quotes-on-breakup, red-blood, robotic-love, scented-love, true-love-story

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#5

“It was rather beautiful: the way he put her insecurities to sleep. The way he dove into her eyes and starved all the fears and tasted all the dreams she kept coiled beneath her bones.”
― Christopher Poindexter

tags: dreams, love, trust

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#6

“I loved her not for the way she danced with my angels, but for the way the sound of her name could silence my demons”
― Christopher Poindexter

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#7

“Sometimes I sit alone under the stars and think of the galaxies inside my heart and truly wonder if anyone will ever want to make sense of all that I am”
― Christopher Poindexter

tags: lonliness, love, poetry

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#8

“She loved the sea. She liked the sharp salty smell of the air, and the vastness of the horizons bounded only by a vault of azure sky above. It made her feel small, but free as well.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

tags: sailing, sea

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#9

“Man must be ready to say: Yes, since Cain there has been injustice, but we can only set the misery right if we accept a status quo. Lands have been robbed, men slain, nations humiliated. Let us now start fresh without remembrance, rather than live forward and backward at the same time. We cannot build the future by avenging the past. Let us sit down as brothers, and accept the Peace of God.”
― T. H. White

tags: peace

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#10

“Mary approaches her before she is able to reach her station. "Hello Lily. Get anything special for Christmas?"
"Just the usual." She answers. "Shattered dreams.”
― Carroll Bryant, Last Flight Out

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#11

“عندما يعلو الضجيج ، صخب في كل مكان ، ستجد صمتي واضحا ً ، عندما تنجح في سماعه جيداً ، فاعلم انك قد شفيت من الصمم ، و فقدت أنا النطق و الكلام ، فلن تسمع مني سوى صمت ، صمت يطول”
― Walaa Walkademagmal, و القادم....أجمل

tags: حزن, صمت, كلام, وحدة

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#12

“يصعب عليك كثيراً أن تتقبل تلك النهايات الصادقة ، لأنك اعتدت دوماً أن تـُغلق القلب فورا ً بعد تتر البداية”
― Walaa Walkademagmal, و القادم....أجمل

tags: نهايات-بدايات

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#13

“تخوننا النهايات ، و تنتصر الأقدار ، فعلينا أولا ً أن نهتم بالبدايات ، و نستمتع بها ، و لنترك النهايات مفتوحة”
― Walaa Walkademagmal, و القادم....أجمل

tags: الأقدار, بدايات, نهايات

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#14

“الذين يضحكون بصوت مرتفع ..
ليسوا بالضرورة سعداء ..
يفعل التعيس ذلك أحيانًا ليتّقي شماتة الأعداء !
والأسوأ من أن تكون حزينًا ..
ألا يكون بمقدورك أن تبوح بذلك لأحد ..
أن يُفتّقك الصمت ..
ولا شيء يَرْتِقُك سوى الأيام ..
أن تبتسم لتنفي أي تهمة تشير بها أصابع الحزن إليك ..
أن تقرأ لتظل عيناك نحو الأسفل دون أن يبدو ذلك انكسارًا ..
أن تنام مبكرًا ..
لتنسحب دون دون أن يبدو ذلك انعزالًا ..
أن تتأخر على سجادة صلاتك ..
لتصمت طويلًا دون أن يبدو ذلك شرودًا ..
تترقب وجعًا ما ..
سيأتيك على شاكلة فاتورةٍ مؤجلة !”
― ندى ناصر, على متن حقيبة

tags: حزن, صمت, عزلة

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#15

“When they finally did dare it, at first with stolen glances and then candid ones, they had to smile. They were uncommonly proud. For the first time they had done something out of Love.”
― Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

tags: love, murder

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#16

“Must it so be that whatever makes man happy must later become the source of his misery?”
― Johann Wolfgang Goethe

tags: despair, hopelessnes, love, misery, sadness

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#17

“We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: adversity, affliction, aphorism, aphorisms, aphorist, aphorists, austerity, be-determined, be-persistent, be-tenacious, carry-on, challenge, challenges, continue, deprivation, destitution, determination, difficult, difficulties, dire-straits, distress, doggedness, dream, dreamer, dreamers, endurance, entrepreneur, entrepreneurs, firmness, follow-through, funny, give-up, go-on, go-the-distance, hammer-away, hang-in-there, hang-on, hardship, hardships, hilarious, hold-on, humor, humorous, humour, impecuniousness, indefatigability, inspiration, inspire, intransigence, joke, jokes, keep-at-it, keep-going, keep-on, leave-no-stone-unturned, mental-strength, mentally-strong, misery, misfortune, motivate, motivation, need, neediness, never-give-up, not-take-no-for-an-answer, obduracy, obstinacy, pain, patience, penury, perseverance, persevere, persist, persistence, pertinacity, plod-on, plug-away, poverty, press-ahead, press-on, privation, problem, problems, purposefulness, quotations, quotes, resoluteness, resolution, resolve, satire, soldier-on, stamina, stand-fast, stand-firm, startup, startups, staunchness, stay-the-course, staying-power, steadfastness, stick-it-out, stoic, stoicism, stoics, stop-at-nothing, strength, strength-of-purpose, strong, struggle-on, stubbornness, suffer, suffering, tenacity, tirelessness, travails, trial, trials, trials-and-tribulations, tribulation, tribulations, trouble, venture-capitalist, venture-capitalists, want, wretchedness

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#18

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina

tags: family, first-sentence

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#19

“Ah you think darkness is your ally? You merely adopted the dark. I was born in it, molded by it. I didn't see the light until I was already a man, by then it was nothing to me but blinding!”
― Bane

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#20

“We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything - what a waste!”
― Andre Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

tags: aciman, call-me-by-your-name, italy, love

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#21

“It's better to be ignorant and live in bliss than know the truth and live in agony.”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

tags: agony, agony-quotes, bliss, bliss-quotes, ignorance, ignorance-arrogance, ignorance-is-bliss, ignorance-is-strength, ignorance-quotes, truth, truth-and-lies, truth-quote, truth-quotes, truth-telling, truths

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#22

“ولعل ما تخشاه ليس بكائن , ولعل ما ترجوه سوف يكون
ولعل ما هونت ليس بهين , ولعل ما شدّدت سوف يهون”
― أبو العتاهية

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#23

“رغيفُ خبز يابسٍ تأكله في زاويه
وكوز ماء بارد تشربه من صافيه
وغرفة خالية نفسك فيها راضيه
ومصحف تدرسه مستنداً لساريه
خير من السكنى بظــلات القصور العاليه
من بعد هذا كله تُصلى بنار حاميه !”
― أبو العتاهية

tags: زهد

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#24

“I had had a feeling of freedom because of the sudden change in my life. By comparison to what had come before, I felt immensely free. But then, once I became used to that freedom, even small tasks became more difficult. I placed constraints on myself, and filled the hours of the day. Or perhaps it was even more complicated than that. Sometimes I did exactly what I wanted to do all day—I lay on the sofa and read a book, or I typed up an old diary—and then the most terrifying sort of despair would descend on me: the very freedom I was enjoying seemed to say that what I did in my day was arbitrary, and that therefore my whole life and how I spent it was arbitrary.”
― Lydia Davis, Can't and Won't

tags: action, arbitrariness, freedom

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#25

“I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend...I can pretend that things last. I can pretend that lives last longer than moments. Gods come, and gods go. Mortals flicker and flash and fade. Worlds don't last; and stars and galaxies are transient, fleeting things that twinkle like fireflies and vanish into cold and dust. But I can pretend...”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 7: Brief Lives

tags: permanence, stars

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#26

“I have all these things that I want to say to her, like... Like how I can tell she's a lonely person, even if other people can't. Cause I know what it feels like to be lost and lonely and invisible.”
― Richard Ayoade, The Double

tags: invisible, loneliness, lost

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#27

“I don't know how to be myself. It's like I'm permanently outside myself. Like, like you could push your hands straight through me if you wanted to. And I can see the type of man I want to be versus the type of man I actually am and I know that I'm doing it but I'm incapable of what needs to be done. I'm like Pinocchio, a wooden boy. Not a real boy. And it kills me.”
― Richard Ayoade, The Double

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#28

“What of Art?
-It is a malady.
--Love?
-An Illusion.
--Religion?
-The fashionable substitute for Belief.
--You are a sceptic.
-Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.
--What are you?
-To define is to limit.”
― Oscar Wilde , The Picture of Dorian Gray

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#29

“I had no interests. I had no interest in anything. I had no idea how I was going to escape. At least the others had some taste for life. They seemed to understand something that I didn’t understand. Maybe I was lacking. It was possible. I often felt inferior. I just wanted to get away from them. But there was no place to go. Suicide? Jesus Christ, just more work. I felt like sleeping for five years but they wouldn’t let me.”
― Charles Bukowski

tags: ham-on-rye

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#30

“The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no matter what you chose, they sliced a little bit more off you, until there was nothing left. At the age of 25 most people were finished. A whole god-damned nation of assholes driving automobiles, eating, having babies, doing everything in the worst way possible, like voting for the presidential candidates who reminded them most of themselves. I had no interests. I had no interest in anything. I had no idea how I was going to escape. At least the others had some taste for life. They seemed to understand something that I didn't understand. Maybe I was lacking. It was possible. I often felt inferior. I just wanted to get away from them. But there was no place to go.”
― Charles Bukowski

tags: bukowski

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#31

“These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
Which as they kiss consume. The sweetest honey
Is loathsome in his own deliciousness
And in the taste confounds the appetite.
Therefore love moderately; long love doth so;
Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

tags: romeo-and-juliet, shakespeare

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