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#1

“Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.”
― Khaled Hosseini

tags: man, men, woman, women

2077 likes

#2

“The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.”
― T.S. Eliot

tags: blood, ink, inspirational, literature

406 likes

#3

“If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light. If I lose paper and ink, I will write in blood on forgotten walls. I will write always. I will capture nights all over the world and bring them to you”
― Henry Rollins

350 likes

#4

“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
― Albert Camus

tags: autumn

2860 likes

#5

“Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.”
― Albert Camus

tags: on-fiction

2786 likes

#6

“The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

tags: loneliness, misattributed

7885 likes

#7

“I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

tags: lost-innocence, memories

5273 likes

#8

“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
― William Shakespeare

tags: destiny

7019 likes

#9

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep

127894 likes

#10

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

179189 likes

#11

“Words are so heavy.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

9 likes

#12

“it always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

2068 likes

#13

“Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

tags: time

1034 likes

#14

“War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace." - Baba”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

tags: morality, war

547 likes

#15

“Attention shifted to him like sunflowers turning to the sun.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

190 likes

#16

“The mountains are calling and I must go.”
― John Muir

tags: nature

2562 likes

#17

“There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

1617 likes

#18

“A boy who won't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up to anything.”
― Khaled Hosseini

369 likes

#19

“Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

451 likes

#20

“In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

1498 likes

#21

“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting”
― Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

tags: ingatan, kekuasaan, lupa, milan-kundera

516 likes

#22

“loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they, too, fade away.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

688 likes

#23

“Before the tears that tore us, when our history was before us.”
― Lang Leav, Love & Misadventure

110 likes

#24

“I don't think all writers are sad, she said. I think it's the other way around- all sad people write.”
― Lang Leav

347 likes

#25

“We had no ending,
no said goodbye.

For all my life,
I'll wonder why.”
― Lang Leav, Love & Misadventure

504 likes

#26

“Do you remember the song that was playing the night we met? No, but I remember every song I have heard since you left.”
― Lang Leav, Love & Misadventure

tags: relevant-at-one-point

325 likes

#27

“It was a question I had worn on my lips for days - like a loose thread on my favourite sweater I couldn't resist pulling - despite knowing it could all unravel around me.

"Do you love me?" I ask.

In your hesitation I found my answer.”
― Lang Leav, Love & Misadventure

1069 likes

#28

“Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

3038 likes

#29

“So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

1228 likes

#30

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst

166073 likes

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