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    Thomas Harris
    “Being smart spoils a lot of things, doesn't it?”
    ― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Youth is wasted on the young.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    Émile Zola
    “The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.”
    ― Émile Zola
    tags: art, enterprise, talent, work
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    Rob Bell
    “It’s easy to take off your clothes and have sex. People do it all the time. But opening up your soul to someone, letting them into your spirit, thoughts, fears, future, hopes, dreams… that is being naked.”
    ― Rob Bell
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    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
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    Alain de Botton
    “Must being in love always mean being in pain?”
    ― Alain de Botton, On Love
    tags: alain-de-botton-love-essay-pain
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    Alain de Botton
    “We wanted to test each other's capacity for survival: only if we had tried in vain to destroy one another would we know we were safe.”
    ― Alain de Botton, On Love
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    Alain de Botton
    “In the end, I've found that it doesn't really matter who you marry. If you like them at the beginning, you probably won't like them at the end. And if you start off hating them, there's always the chance you'll end up thinking they're all right.”
    ― Alain de Botton, Essays in Love
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    Alain de Botton
    “Unrequited love may be painful, but it is safely painful, because it does not involve inflicting damage on anyone but oneself, a private pain that is as bitter-sweet as it is self-induced. But as soon as love is reciprocated, one must be prepared to give up the passivity of simply being hurt to take on the responsibility of perpetrating hurt oneself.”
    ― Alain de Botton, Essays in Love
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    Alain de Botton
    “By forty, everyone has the face they deserve,’ wrote George Orwell,”
    ― Alain de Botton, Essays In Love
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    Alain de Botton
    “it seems impossible to talk of love and letting live, and if we are left to live, we are not usually loved.”
    ― Alain de Botton, Essays In Love
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    Alain de Botton
    “In the end, I’ve found that it doesn’t really matter who you marry. If you like them at the beginning, you probably won’t like them at the end. And if you start off hating them, there’s always the chance you’ll end up thinking they’re all right.”
    ― Alain de Botton, Essays In Love
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    Alain de Botton
    “What is so frightening is the extent to which we may idealize others when we have such trouble tolerating ourselves”
    ― Alain de Botton, Essays In Love
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    Alain de Botton
    “Yet we can perhaps only ever fall in love without knowing quite who we have fallen in love with. The initial convulsion is necessarily founded on ignorance.”
    ― Alain de Botton, Essays In Love
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    Alain de Botton
    “We charm by coincidence rather than design.”
    ― Alain de Botton, Essays In Love
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    Anaïs Nin
    “Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.”
    ― Anaïs Nin, Incest: From "A Journal of Love": The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1932-1934
    tags: ecstasy, escape, freedom, intoxication, reality
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    Junot Díaz
    “But if these years have taught me anything it is this: you can never run away. Not ever. The only way out is in.”
    ― Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
    tags: escape, introspection
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    Jennifer L. Armentrout
    “That's the funny thing about trying to escape. You never really can. Maybe temporarily, but not completely.”
    ― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Onyx
    tags: escape, jennifer-l-armentrout, onyx
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    Lao Tzu
    “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: travel
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    Anita Desai
    “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.”
    ― Anita Desai
    tags: travel
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    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.”
    ― Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes
    tags: travel
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
    tags: goals, journey, travel
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    David Mitchell
    “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.”
    ― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
    tags: inspirational, travel
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    E.E. Cummings
    “may came home with a smooth round stone
    as small as a world and as large as alone.”
    ― E.E. Cummings
    tags: loneliness, poetry, travel
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    Jack Kerouac
    “because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars...”
    ― Jack Kerouac, On the Road
    tags: travel, wanderlust
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    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    “I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.”
    ― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    tags: finding-yourself, searching, travel
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    Mary Anne Radmacher
    “I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.”
    ― mary anne radmacher
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    Hans Christian Andersen
    “To move, to breathe, to fly, to float,
    To gain all while you give,
    To roam the roads of lands remote,
    To travel is to live.”
    ― Hans Christian Andersen, The Fairy Tale of My Life: An Autobiography
    tags: experience, life, travel
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    Makoto Shinkai
    “Maybe we tried to leave as much memories of ourselves with each other because we knew one day we wouldn't be together any more.”
    ― Makoto Shinkai, 5 Centimeters per Second
    tags: anxiety, first-love, heartbreak, moving-forward, moving-on, separation, separation-anxiety
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    Makoto Shinkai
    “In the end, the train stood 2 hours motionless in the middle of nowhere.
    Every minute seemed like an eternity.
    Time felt crept by slowly, with clear malice towards me. All I could do was grip my teeth and try to hold back my tears...
    Akari... Please, don't wait for me...
    If you'd just go home.”
    ― Makoto Shinkai, 5 Centimeters per Second
    tags: first-love, longing, love, waiting
    35 likes



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