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#1

“I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once. ”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

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#2

“I really like you, Midori. A lot.”
“How much is a lot?”
“Like a spring bear,” I said.
“A spring bear?” Midori looked up again. “What’s that all about? A spring bear.”
“You’re walking through a field all by yourself one day in spring, and this sweet little bear cub with velvet fur and shiny little eyes comes walking along. And he says to you, “Hi, there, little lady. Want to tumble with me?’ So you and the bear cub spend the whole day in each other’s arms, tumbling down this clover-covered hill. Nice, huh?”
“Yeah. Really nice.”
“That’s how much I like you.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

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#3

“Find what you love and let it kill you.”
― Charles Bukowski

tags: love

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#4

“Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

tags: memory

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#5

“The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.”
― Plato, The Republic

tags: government, inferiority, politics, rule

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#6

“Maybe...you'll fall in love with me all over again."
"Hell," I said, "I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?"
"Yes. I want to ruin you."
"Good," I said. "That's what I want too.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

tags: infatuation, love

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#7

“I drink to make other people more interesting.”
― Hemingway, Ernest

tags: drinking

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#8

“It is the mind that speaks a woman's heart, not the vaginal walls.”
― Mary Roach, Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex

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#9

“Hormones are nature's three bottles of beer.”
― Mary Roach, Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex

tags: sex

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#10

“You are a person and then you cease to be a person, and a cadaver takes your place.”
― Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

tags: cadaver

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#11

“Sharing a room with a cadaver is only mildly different from being in a room alone.
They are the same sort of company as people across from you on subways or in airport lounges, there but not there. Your eyes keep going back to them, for lack of anything more interesting to look at, and then you feel bad for staring.”
― Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

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#12

“As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.”
― Alain de Botton

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#13

“The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren't there. The answers are there in the morning.”
― Alain de Botton

tags: answers, brain, mind, questions, subconscious, thinking

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#14

“Love is an incurable disease. In love, there is permanent suffering. Those who love and those who are happy are not the same.”
― Alain de Botton, How Proust Can Change Your Life

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#15

“Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.”
― Alain de Botton

tags: books, reading, right-moment, timing

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#16

“The first draft of anything is shit.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: attributed-no-source, writing

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#17

“As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: writers, writing-advice

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#18

“A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: cats

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#19

“you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

tags: denial, self-awareness

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#20

“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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#21

“That sometimes human beings have to just sit in one place and, like, hurt. That you will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do. That there is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agendaless kindness. That it is possible to fall asleep during an anxiety attack. That concentrating on anything is very hard work.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

tags: truth

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#22

“And Lo, for the Earth was empty of Form, and void. And Darkness was all over the Face of the Deep. And We said: 'Look at that fucker Dance.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

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#23

“I think there must be probably different types of suicides. I'm not one of the self-hating ones. The type of like "I'm shit and the world'd be better off without poor me" type that says that but also imagines what everybody'll say at their funeral. I've met types like that on wards. Poor-me-I-hate-me-punish-me-come-to-my-funeral. Then they show you a 20 X 25 glossy of their dead cat. It's all self-pity bullshit. It's bullshit. I didn't have any special grudges. I didn't fail an exam or get dumped by anybody. All these types. Hurt themselves. I didn't want to especially hurt myself. Or like punish. I don't hate myself. I just wanted out. I didn't want to play anymore is all. I wanted to just stop being conscious. I'm a whole different type. I wanted to stop feeling this way. If I could have just put myself in a really long coma I would have done that. Or given myself shock I would have done that. Instead.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

tags: feeling, hate, self, self-harm, suicide

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#24

“I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.”
― Anaïs Nin

tags: anaïs-nin, love, polyamory

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#25

“They'll say you are bad
or perhaps you are mad
or at least you
should stay undercover.
Your mind must be bare
if you would dare
to think you can love
more than one lover.”
― David Rovics

tags: agape, believe, betrayal, break-up, broken, cheat, cheater, cheating, closet, commitment, communication, consent, control, cry, depressed, desire, dirty, divorce, divorced, dream, empowering, end, ended, eros, family, fear, feelings, feminism, forever, freedom, friends, friendship, gone, happiness, heartbreak, heartbroken, hearts, honesty, horny, human, humanity, hurt, infidelity, jealousy, jerk, keep, keeper, keepers, live, lost, lovers, monogamy, nasty, need, nonmonogamy, pain, partners, peace, plural, polyamory, polyandry, polycule, polygamy, polygyny, possessive, quad, queer, real, relationship, respect, romantic, sad, share, sharing, slut, sluts, sorrow, spice, spouse, stay, suffering, sweet, sweethearts, swinging, team, threesome, time, triad, trouble, truth, undercover, unfaithful, unicorn, unity, valentine, valentines, value, wisdom, wishes, yolo

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#26

“The point for me is to create relationships based on deeper and more real notions of trust. So that love becomes defined not by sexual exclusivity, but by actual respect, concern, commitment to act with kind intentions, accountability for our actions, and a desire for mutual growth.”
― Dean Spade

tags: polyamory

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#27

“When jealousy rears up, it indicates that something inside of you is afraid. It's an alarm, nothing less and nothing more. Treat it as such.”
― Anthony D. Ravenscroft, Polyamory: Roadmaps for the Clueless & Hopeful

tags: jealousy, polyamory, relationships

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#28

“A world where it is safe to love is a world where it is safe to live”
― Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio

tags: cosmology, ecosexuality, gaia, new-science, peace, polyamory, tantra

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#29

“Security comes first from inside of you. Then, if you are very lucky, you will be in a position to find other people who also possess that same sort of security, and build some sort of family or community as a team.”
― Anthony D. Ravenscroft, Polyamory: Roadmaps for the Clueless & Hopeful

tags: love, polyamory, relationships

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#30

“We are raised to believe (on the surface, at least) that us humans only have so much love to give, and that it comes in a standard round unit: one. After all, we associate love with the heart, and, well, you've either got a whole heart, or you're dead, period. You can't, common wisdom goes, just run around dividing that one heart up freely; to claim to do so means that you're either a fool, or you're dividing up something that is dead.”
― Anthony Ravenscroft

tags: love, polyamory, relationships

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