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    Stéphane Mallarmé
    “The flesh is sad, alas, and I have read all the books.”
    ― Stéphane Mallarme
    tags: books, flesh, sensuality, wit
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
    tags: happiness, pain, peace, scar, sweetness
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    Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
    “Love. Of course, love. Flames for a year, ashes for thirty.”
    ― Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
    tags: ashes, flames, love
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    Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
    “If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.”
    ― Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa , The Leopard
    tags: change
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    Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
    “All this shouldn't last; but it will, always; the human 'always' of course, a century, two centuries... and after that it will be different, but worse. We were the Leopards, the Lions; those who'll take our place will be little jackals, hyenas; and the whole lot of us, Leopards, jackals, and sheep, we'll all go on thinking ourselves the salt of the earth.”
    ― Giuseppe di Lampedusa
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    Richard Avedon
    “A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth. ”
    ― Richard Avedon
    tags: accuracy, art, inaacuracy, perspective, photography, portraits, portraiture, truth
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    Franz Kafka
    “A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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    Emily Dickinson
    “I dwell in possibility…”
    ― Emily Dickinson
    tags: possibility
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    Henry James
    “Don't pass it by--the immediate, the real, the only, the yours.”
    ― Henry James
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    Lord Byron
    “There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
    There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
    There is society, where none intrudes,
    By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
    I love not man the less, but Nature more”
    ― Lord Byron
    tags: nature, poetry, solitude
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    Sylvia Plath
    “Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: importance, kiss, kissing
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: books, life, limits
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    Nelson Algren
    “Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.”
    ― Nelson Algren, A Walk on the Wild Side
    tags: relationships, survival, wisdom
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    Nelson Algren
    “Any writer who knows what he's doing isn't doing very much.”
    ― Nelson Algren
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    Nelson Algren
    “Yet once you've come to be part of this particular patch, you'll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never a lovely so real.”
    ― Nelson Algren, Chicago: City on the Make
    tags: chicago, cities, love, lovely
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    Milan Kundera
    “The bloody massacre in Bangladesh quickly covered over the memory of the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia, the assassination of Allende drowned out the groans of Bangladesh, the war in the Sinai Desert made people forget Allende, the Cambodian massacre made people forget Sinai, and so on and so forth until ultimately everyone lets everything be forgotten.”
    ― Milan Kundera
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    Charles Dickens
    “You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!”
    ― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “There's no greater misfortune than dying alone.”
    ― Gabriel García Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores
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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “...the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy love”
    ― Gabriel García Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores
    tags: love
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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “The truth is I'm getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don't feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it.”
    ― Gabriel García Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores
    tags: old-age
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    Stendhal
    “One can acquire everything in solitude except character.”
    ― Stendhal, Five Short Novels of Stendhal
    tags: community
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    Anaïs Nin
    “We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
    ― Anaïs Nin
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    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
    tags: death, love
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    Anaïs Nin
    “We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
    ― Anais Nin
    tags: anais-nin, qoutes-on-writing, writing
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    Anaïs Nin
    “Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.”
    ― Anais Nin
    tags: life
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    Anaïs Nin
    “I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.”
    ― Anais Nin
    tags: anais-nin, inspirational, living, mermaids, no-fear, sea
    3029 likes

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    Jennifer Donnelly
    “God loves us, but the devil takes an interest.”
    ― Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution
    tags: god, the-devil
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    Robinson Jeffers
    “I've changed my ways a little, I cannot now
    Run with you in the evenings along the shore,
    Except in a kind of dream, and you, if you dream a moment,
    You see me there.”
    ― Robinson Jeffers
    tags: death, dogs, dream, memory, passage, time
    101 likes

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    Robinson Jeffers
    “Does it matter whether you hate yourself? At least love your eyes that can see, your mind that can hear the music, the thunder of the wings.”
    ― Robinson Jeffers
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    John Steinbeck
    “Anything that just costs money is cheap.”
    ― John Steinbeck
    tags: value
    903 likes



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