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    Joseph Conrad
    “We live as we dream--alone....”
    ― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
    tags: dream, loneliness
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    Joseph Conrad
    “The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.”
    ― Joseph Conrad, Under Western Eyes
    tags: supernatural-wicked
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    Joseph Conrad
    “I don't like work--no man does--but I like what is in the work--the chance to find yourself. Your own reality--for yourself not for others--what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really means.”
    ― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
    tags: work
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    Joseph Conrad
    “It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream--making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation, that commingling of absurdity, surprise, and bewilderment in a tremor of struggling revolt, that notion of being captured by the incredible which is of the very essence of dreams...No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one's existence--that which makes its truth, its meaning--its subtle and penetrating essence. It is impossible. We live, as we dream-alone...”
    ― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
    tags: dream
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    Joseph Conrad
    “Your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.”
    ― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
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    Joseph Conrad
    “It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.”
    ― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
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    Joseph Conrad
    “I couldn't have felt more of lonely desolation somehow, had I been robbed of a belief or had missed my destiny in life...”
    ― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
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    Melissa Marr
    “Sometimes love means letting go when you want to hold on tighter.”
    ― Melissa Marr, Ink Exchange
    tags: love
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    Melissa Marr
    “She stood in his kitchen, watching him toy with the ring in his lip. It wasn't quite that he was biting it, but sucking it into his mouth. He did that when he was concentrating. It isn't sexy. He's not sexy. But he was, and she was staring at him like a fool. "wow" she whispered (.....)"Wow, huh?" His voice was low, husky. His chair creaked as he stood. His footsteps seemed strangely loud as he closed the couple yards between them. Then he was beside her. "I can work with wow”
    ― Melissa Marr, Wicked Lovely
    tags: sweet
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    Melissa Marr
    “And he smiled at her, truely smiled- wicked and lovely...”
    ― Melissa Marr, Wicked Lovely
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    Melissa Marr
    “He looked good, like sin in a suit.”
    ― Melissa Marr, Wicked Lovely
    tags: ink-exchange, lust, male-beauty, sex-appeal
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  • #12
    “Do you want to know why men name their penis? So the most important decisions in their life aren't made by a stranger.”
    ― Linda Howard, After the Night
    tags: romance, sobriquet
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    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
    128886 likes

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    Joseph Conrad
    “Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.”
    ― Joseph Conrad, Chance
    tags: women
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    Joseph Conrad
    “You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.”
    ― Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim
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    Joseph Conrad
    “Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.”
    ― Joseph Conrad, Under Western Eyes
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Sherrilyn Kenyon
    “Life is a tapestry woven by the decisions we make.”
    ― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Kiss of the Night
    tags: life, life-experience
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    Sherrilyn Kenyon
    “In your past lies your future. [Acheron Parthenopaeus]”
    ― Sherrilyn Kenyon
    tags: acheron, dark-hunter, sherrilyn-kenyon
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    Sherrilyn Kenyon
    “The strongest steel is forged by the fires of hell. (Savitar)”
    ― Sherrilyn Kenyon
    tags: acheron, dark-hunter, savitar, sherrilyn-kenyon
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    Sherrilyn Kenyon
    “Over, under, around, or through. There is always a way.
    - Soteria”
    ― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Acheron
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    Sherrilyn Kenyon
    “Bitch please...you haven't seen mean yet.”
    ― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Acheron
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
    130117 likes

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  • #24
    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    ― Narcotics Anonymous
    tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein
    64642 likes

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    William Shakespeare
    “Now cracks a noble heart. Good-night, sweet prince;
    And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest. ”
    ― William Shakespeare, Hamlet
    tags: horatio
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    Sherrilyn Kenyon
    “I learned the bad guys are not always bad, the good guys are not always good, and to quote Captain Barbossa, the parameters are like rules, mostly guidelines. And that it takes a little bit of bad boy to fight the evil in the world.
    --Terri Mitchell”
    ― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Phantom in the Night
    tags: evil, learning, rules
    337 likes

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    Ray Bradbury
    “A good night sleep, or a ten minute bawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, is good medicine.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
    tags: humor
    780 likes

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    Ernest Hemingway
    “I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: sleep
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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
    92160 likes

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    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
    93520 likes



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