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    Jane Austen
    “You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.”
    ― Jane Austen, Persuasion
    tags: romantic
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    Ray Bradbury
    “Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I'm one of them.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
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    Ray Bradbury
    “We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
    tags: reality-bothered
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: ataraxy, defiance, empowerment, independence, individuality, self-assurance, self-awareness, self-containment, self-determination, self-esteem, self-reliance, self-respect, self-sufficiency, self-trust, solitude
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
    tags: breath, existence
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    Edna St. Vincent Millay
    “She is happy where she lies
    With the dust upon her eyes.”
    ― Edna St. Vincent Millay, The Selected Poetry
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    Virginia Woolf
    “I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out
    tags: the-voyage-out, virginia-woolf
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    David Foster Wallace
    “We're all lonely for something we don't know we're lonely for. How else to explain the curious feeling that goes around feeling like missing somebody we've never even met?”
    ― David Foster Wallace
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    David Foster Wallace
    “The parts of me that used to think I was different or smarter or whatever, almost made me die.”
    ― David Foster Wallace
    tags: comformism, difference, individuality, isolation, suicide
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    David Foster Wallace
    “Acceptance is usually more a matter of fatigue than anything else.”
    ― David Foster Wallace
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  • #11
    David Foster Wallace
    “It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know.”
    ― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
    tags: loneliness, longing
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  • #12
    David Foster Wallace
    “It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase.”
    ― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
    tags: ads, advertising, anxiety
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    David Foster Wallace
    “You have decided being scared is caused mostly by thinking. ”
    ― David Foster Wallace
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    David Foster Wallace
    “Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. They are allergic to people. People affect them too strongly.”
    ― David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
    tags: humans, loneliness, lonely-people, relationships
    722 likes

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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated
    tags: grief, mourning, sadness, sorrow, suffering
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “She wants to know if I love her, that's all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there, like new batteries in the flashlight in the emergency kit in the hall closet.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “Songs are as sad as the listener.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
    tags: music, perception
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “When I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They were necessary to make you possible.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “This is love, she thought, isn't it? When you notice someone's absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his presence?”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “I'm sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer
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  • #21
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “It's the tragedy of loving, you can't love anything more than something you miss.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer
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  • #22
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “My life story is the story of everyone I've ever met.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
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  • #23
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated
    tags: happiness, life
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  • #24
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “I missed you even when I was with you. That’s been my problem. I miss what I already have, and I surround myself with things that are missing.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “I hated myself for going, why couldn't I be the kind of person who stays?”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
    tags: leaving, staying
    780 likes

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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is something you have earned.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated
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  • #29
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “I never confused what I had with what I was.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
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  • #30
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
    tags: life, mistakes, regret
    614 likes



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