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  • #1
    Antonio Porchia
    “One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.”
    Antonio Porchia

  • #2
    J.D. Salinger
    “When you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody.”
    J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

  • #3
    Helen Keller
    “Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.”
    Helen Keller

  • #4
    Sylvia Plath
    “Dying
    Is an art, like everything else.
    I do it exceptionally well.
    I do it so it feels like hell.
    I do it so it feels real.
    I guess you could say I have a call.”
    Sylvia Plath, Ariel

  • #5
    Benjamin Franklin
    “Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.”
    Benjamin Franklin

  • #6
    Anaïs Nin
    “Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
    Anais Nin

  • #7
    J.K. Rowling
    “To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #8
    Oscar Wilde
    “A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #9
    E.E. Cummings
    “Unbeing dead isn't being alive.”
    E. E. Cummings

  • #10
    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time.”
    Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

  • #11
    Steve Jobs
    “Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
    Steve Jobs

  • #12
    Gabriel García Márquez
    “The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the future until reality taught them that tomorrow was not what they had dreamed, and they discovered nostalgia.”
    Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores

  • #13
    Gabriel García Márquez
    “Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.”
    Gabriel García Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores
    tags: age, old

  • #14
    Gabriel García Márquez
    “No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you've already had.”
    Gabriel García Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores
    tags: love

  • #15
    Gabriel García Márquez
    “No matter what you do this year or in the next hundred, you will be dead forever.”
    Gabriel García Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores

  • #16
    Gabriel García Márquez
    “Morality, too, is a question of time.”
    Gabriel García Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores

  • #17
    Gabriel García Márquez
    “Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future.”
    Gabriel García Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores

  • #18
    Gabriel García Márquez
    “For a week I did not take off my mechanic's coverall day or night I did not bathe or shave or brush my teeth because love taught me too late that you groom yourself for someone you dress and perfume yourself for someone and I'd never had anyone to do that for.”
    Gabriel García Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores
    tags: love

  • #19
    Gabriel García Márquez
    “Es imposible no terminar siendo como los otros creen que uno es. (Atribuido a Julio César)”
    Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores

  • #20
    Robert Fulghum
    “I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.”
    Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts On Common Things

  • #21
    Stephenie Meyer
    “I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.”
    Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

  • #22
    Barbara Kingsolver
    “The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.”
    Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

  • #23
    “There are certain emotions in your body that not even your best friend can sympathize with, but you will find the right film or the right book, and it will understand you.”
    Bjork

  • #24
    Jon   Stewart
    “I have some bad news. Bjork cannot be here tonight. She was trying on her Oscar dress and Dick Cheney shot her.”
    Jon Stewart

  • #25
    “Who would have known
    That a boy like him
    Would have entered me lightly
    Restoring my blisses

    Who would have known
    That a boy like him
    After sharing my core
    Would stay going nowhere”
    Bjork - Cocoon
    tags: love

  • #26
    Tori Amos
    “I don't see myself as weird, I just see myself as honest.”
    Tori Amos

  • #27
    Tori Amos
    “Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much. But you have to crawl into your wounds to discover where your fears are. Once the bleeding starts, the cleansing can begin.”
    Tori Amos

  • #28
    Tori Amos
    “Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don`t fit into boxes.”
    Tori Amos

  • #29
    Tori Amos
    “When you've got the virgin and the whore sitting next to each other, they're likely to judge each other harshly.

    Tori Amos

  • #30
    Tori Amos
    “I think that people who can't believe in fairies aren't worth knowing.

    Tori Amos



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