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    J.M. Barrie
    “When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.”
    ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
    tags: happiness
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    J.M. Barrie
    “Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time.”
    ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
    tags: children-s-literature, fairies, fantasy, peter-pan
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    Jack Kerouac
    “A pain stabbed my heart, as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.”
    ― Jack Kerouac, On the Road
    tags: life, parting
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    Jack Kerouac
    “The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view”
    ― Jack Kerouac, On the Road
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    Jack Kerouac
    “Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to sex immediately without proper preliminary talk. Not courting talk — real straight talk about souls, for life is holy and every moment is precious.”
    ― Jack Kerouac, On the Road
    tags: sex
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    Jack Kerouac
    “I was surprised, as always, by how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility.”
    ― Jack Kerouac, On the Road
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    Jack Kerouac
    “For the first time in my life the weather was not something that touched me, that caressed me, froze or sweated me, but became me. ”
    ― Jack Kerouac, On the Road
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    Jack Kerouac
    “Prison is where you promise yourself the right to live.”
    ― Jack Kerouac, On the Road
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    Jack Kerouac
    “There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.”
    ― Jack Kerouac, On the Road
    tags: travel
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    Albert Camus
    “Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.”
    ― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
    tags: philosophy, truth
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    Albert Camus
    “What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.”
    ― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
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    Albert Camus
    “A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.”
    ― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “I loved you when I saw you today and I loved you always but I never saw you before.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls
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    Charles Baudelaire
    “But the true voyagers are only those who leave
    Just to be leaving; hearts light, like balloons,
    They never turn aside from their fatality
    And without knowing why they always say: "Let's go!”
    ― Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
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    Charles Baudelaire
    “My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it.”
    ― Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
    tags: beasts, charles-baudelaire, conversations, eat, eaten, heart, les-fleurs-du-mal, lost, poem, poetry, the-flowers-of-evil
    339 likes

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    Charles Baudelaire
    “Passion I hate, and spirit does me wrong. Let us love gently.”
    ― Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
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  • #17
    William Faulkner
    “Memory believes before knowing remembers.

    [Light in August]”
    ― William Faulkner, Light in August
    tags: memory, nostalgia
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    William Faulkner
    “And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.”
    ― William Faulkner, Light in August
    tags: honesty, lie, truth
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    William Faulkner
    “Though children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults too.”
    ― William Faulkner, Light in August
    tags: adult, children
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    Jack Kerouac
    “It’s not that I can’t fall in love. It’s really that I can’t help falling in love with too many things all at once. So, you must understand why I can’t distinguish between what’s platonic and what isn’t, because it’s all too much and not enough at the same time.”
    ― Jack Kerouac
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    John Green
    “As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: love
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    John Green
    “You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: satisfaction, self-determination
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    John Green
    “Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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    John Green
    “The marks humans leave are too often scars.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: humans, pain, scars
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    John Green
    “Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: change, grief, loss, revelation
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    John Green
    “That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: death-and-dying
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    John Green
    “Because you are beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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    Anthony Bourdain
    “Few things are more beautiful to me than a bunch of thuggish, heavily tattooed line cooks moving around each other like ballerinas on a busy Saturday night. Seeing two guys who'd just as soon cut each other's throats in their off hours moving in unison with grace and ease can be as uplifting as any chemical stimulant or organized religion.”
    ― Anthony Bourdain
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: heart, importance, inspiration, secret, the-little-prince
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: reminding
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