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#1

“Her stare fixed me. Without rancour and without regret; without triumph and without evil; as Desdemona once looked back on Venice.

On the incomprehension, the baffled rage of Venice. I had taken myself to be in some way the traitor Iago punished, in an unwritten sixth act. Chained in hell. But I was also Venice; the state left behind; the thing journeyed from.”
― John Fowles, The Magus

tags: being-left-behind, distance, othello, outgrowing-others, personal-growth, reference-to-shakespeare

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#2

“All space is relative. There is no such thing as size. The telescope and the microscope have produced a deadly leveling of great and small, far and near. The only little thing is sin, the only great thing is fear!

("The Jelly-Fish")”
― David H. Keller, American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps

tags: distance, fear, relativity, scale, science, size

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#3

“And so man, as existing transcendence abounding in and surpassing toward possibilities, is a creature of distance. Only through the primordial distances he establishes toward all being in his transcendence does a true nearness to things flourish in him.”
― Martin Heidegger, The Essence of Reasons

tags: being, distance, transcendence

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#4

“He had been violently confused by her real presence in the opposite inaccessible corner. For months he had been possessed by the imagination of her. She had been distant and closed away, a princess in a tower, and his imagination’s work had been all to make her present, all of her, to his mind and senses, the quickness of her and the mystery, the whiteness of her, which was part of her extreme magnetism, and the green look of those piercing or occluded eyes. Her presence had been unimaginable, or more strictly, only to be imagined. Yet here she was, and he was engaged in observing the ways in which she resembled, or differed from, the woman he dreamed, or reached for in sleep, or would fight for.”
― A. S. Byatt

tags: confusion, distance, imagination, love, lust, possession

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#5

“If i think about us logically, there is no chance for us. But logic doesn't produce magic.”
― Cristian Peter Marinescu-Ivan

tags: distance, longing, love, love-quotes

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#6

“We'll meet again, but you're a lifetime away, and I need you now.”
― Karen Quan, Write like no one is reading 2

tags: breakup, distance, emotional, in-love, love-sick, lover, missing-you, needy, quotes, sadness

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#7

“I loved him the way some people are to be loved - from a distance.”
― Sanhita Baruah

tags: distance, life, lonely, lost, love, lovers-love-story, lovers-sadness, melancholy, one-sided-love, single

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#8

“And I loved you
I loved you so
There were times
I forgot to breathe
Waiting for the phone call
For the sound of your voice
Touching me places
You couldn't touch
For the miles between us.
And I loved you
Like a forest loves the spring
Waiting for the smallest signs
Of you coming back
And breathing life back into me
Warming me up
On my brightest fields
And my darkest valleys
But you stayed away.
And I loved you
But fate seemed to have
Different plans for us.
I guess now I see that
It was a one-sided love
Peeking through
The large glasses of a binocular
I am here, so very close
But you are far-far-away...”
― Veronika Jensen

tags: broken-heart, distance, love, sadness

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#9

“Darkness can inspire light, and light can inspire darkness, its just a difference of distant of these two contrasting forces.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: abnormal, alien, ascetic, atheism, darkness, demon, difference, distance, ethereal, forces, ghosts, inspirationals, inspire, kingdom, light, michael-bassey-johnson, mystic, mystical, occultic, power, spirits

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#10

“There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally.”
― Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

tags: distance, equanimity, freedom, letting-go, perspective, self-centeredness

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#11

“She stuck a bookmark in his heart and walked away.”
― Saul Williams, She

tags: distance, woman

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#12

“One reason we have children I think is to learn that parts of ourselves we had given up for dead are merely dormant and that the old joys can re emerge fresh and new and in a completely different form.”
― Anne Fadiman

tags: family, kids, parenting

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#13

“Ha! Kids! You have no idea what you put your parents through, either. Wait till you have your own, you'll see. That's when you'll know what it really feels like." .. "What what feels like?"..."Love," said Angela.”
― Tess Gerritsen

tags: kids, love, parenting, rizzoli-and-isles, tess-gerritsen

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#14

“The best part about having children is being able to point at them and proudly proclaim, "Hey, I made those.”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale

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#15

“Am I a storm-waster? For it is within the fury of the very storms within which I cower that I find resources for my growth that are entirely absent on calmer days.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone: Simple Truths for Profound Living

tags: calm, cower, days, fear, fury, growth, opportunities, opportunity, personal-development, personal-growth, resources, storm, storms, trials, tribulations, waste

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#16

“Are you there? I call for you.
I've been calling your name,
Searching every place in my mind to find you,
I've lost count of the days, the hours, minutes, and seconds.
The world that looked so vast is now small and empty.
Did you take all the magic with you?
Or perhaps the world is in pain like my heart because it's lost your spark.”
― Tannaz Sayadi, Write like no one is reading 2

tags: days, empty, lost, magic, minutes, seconds, world

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#17

“Days like this, like your day today.
maybe the rain on the window trying to
get through to you. What do you see today?
what is it? where are you?
the best days are sometimes the first,
sometimes the middle and even sometimes the last”
― Charles Bukowski, Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame

tags: days, poetry

18 likes

#18

“When you don't know where to start,
just go to a place you miss so much.”
― Toba Beta, Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

tags: confused, doubt, missed

147 likes

#19

“I am tired of people saying that poor character is the only reason people do wrong things. Actually, circumstances cause people to act a certain way. It's from those circumstances that a person's attitude is affected followed by weakening of character. Not the reverse. If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others and judging their lives as either black or white, good or bad. We all live our lives in shades of gray.”
― Shannon L. Alder

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#20

“Sure, he was lonely. Sure, they had a lot in common. Sure, he was attracted to her, and it was clear she felt the same about him.”
― Tim LaHaye, Tribulation Force

tags: attracted, confused, lonley

26 likes

#21

“What have I done to her?" Gabriel muttered to himself as he crossed the room to crank open a window. Cool air washed over his skin. "What the devil did she do to me?”
― Olivia Parker

tags: at-the-bride-hunt-ball, confused, historical-romance, infatuation, romance, self-talk

20 likes

#22

“Ignorance is the worst liberation. To know even a few is better than knowing nothing at all.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: better, blockhead, close, confused, confusion, emptiness, few, freedom, ignorance, incompetence, knowledge, liberation, nothing, shallow, state-of-mind, worse

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#23

“At times he felt that he had almost rather not be in love with her, for it brought him no peace. What was the use of it, if it was only going to be painful?”
― Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove

tags: confused, disappointed, feeling, felt, her, in-love, love, no-peace, not-rather, painful, times, use, what-if

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#24

“I finally gave in today. Admitting that I haven't been able to do it alone, that's defeat right? But do a couple pills change why I'm here? Will my spirit be altered? Do my passions change? Will I lose hope either way? My madness is what makes me. It’s my most unique beauty.”
― Crystal Woods, Write like no one is reading 2

tags: admitting, anxiety, beauty, change, confused, defeat, defeated, doctors, drugs, giving-in, hormonal, losing-hope, lost, madness, medication, panic, passions, perfection, pills, prescriptions, quotes-for-women, sadness, troubled, unique

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#25

“Nothing can give you peace if there is no calmness in your mind.”
― Debasish Mridha

tags: calmness, debasish, debasish-mridha, mind, mrihda, no-peace, nothing, peace, philosophy

5 likes

#26

“There seem to be no way he could stop anything that was happening, although it all felt wrong.”
― Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove

tags: could-not-stop, feeling, felt, happening, no-way-to-stop, not-expected, wrong, wrong-feeling

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#27

“Of all the women he knew, she had meant the most; and was the one person in his life he felt he had missed, in some ways.”
― Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove

tags: feelings, felt, he-knew, his-life, life, love, love-of-his-life, meant-the-most, missed, one-person, only-love, women

3 likes

#28

“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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#29

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

tags: life

109284 likes

#30

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

tags: friendship

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