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#1

“A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….”
― William Faulkner

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#1

“French name, English accent, American school. Anna confused.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

tags: anna, humor

1797 likes

#2

“If we are always arriving and departing, it is also
true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination
is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.”
― Henry Miller, Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch

tags: perspective

222 likes

#2

“Some may never live, but the crazy never die.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

1203 likes

#3

“A word to the wise is infuriating. ”
― Hunter S. Thompson

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#3

“I have the strangest feeling that he's aware of me as I am of him.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

tags: romantic-attraction

200 likes

#4

“For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

tags: inspiration

395 likes

#4

“I don't want to feel this way around him. I want things to be normal. I want to be his friend, not another stupid girl holding out for something that will never happen.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

605 likes

#5

“I have to talk to someone or risk explosion.”
― Stephanie Perkins

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#5

“There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.”
― Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, Œuvres complètes

tags: solitude, wine

365 likes

#6

“When she raises her eyelids, it's as if she were taking off all her clothes.”
― Colette, Claudine and Annie

109 likes

#6

“All my heart is yours, sir: it belongs to you; and with you it would remain, were fate to exile the rest of me from your presence forever.”
― Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

tags: love, poetry

1373 likes

#7

“I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

tags: death, die, fountainhead, life, live, mortality

2932 likes

#8

“Over every mountain, there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.”
― Theodore Roethke

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#9

“Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries.”
― Theodore Roethke, Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke

tags: life, poetry

1301 likes

#10

“How body from spirit slowly does unwind, until we are pure spirit at the end.”
― Theodore Roethke

tags: growing-old, infirmities

69 likes

#11

“Too many things are occurring for even a big heart to hold.”
― W.B. Yeats, Dyland Thomas T.S. Eliot

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#12

“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
― Pablo Neruda, Love: Ten Poems

tags: love

7164 likes

#13

“You have decided being scared is caused mostly by thinking. ”
― David Foster Wallace

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#14

“The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness.”
― David Foster Wallace

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#15

“I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

tags: books, infinite-jest

4217 likes

#16

“It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

tags: ads, advertising, anxiety

875 likes

#17

“Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still.”
― David Foster Wallace, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

tags: bees, impermanence, insight, mujō, philosophy, stillness, time, 無常

480 likes

#18

“Why not? Why not? Why not not, then, if the best reasoning you can contrive is why not?”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

109 likes

#19

“I'd tell you all you want and more, if the sounds I made could be what you hear”
― David Foster Wallace

136 likes

#20

“To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.”
― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

tags: inspirational, wonder

4744 likes

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