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  • #1
    Adam Phillips
    “The past influences everything and dictates nothing.”
    Adam Phillips, Darwin's Worms: On Life Stories and Death Stories

  • #2
    Adam Phillips
    “Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.”
    Adam Phillips, Monogamy

  • #3
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #4
    Henry David Thoreau
    “The morning, which is the most memorable season of the day, is the awakening hour. Then there is least somnolence in us; and for an hour, at least, some part of us awakes which slumbers all the rest of the day and night... All memorable events, I should say, transpire in morning time and in a morning atmosphere. The Vedas say, “All intelligences awake with the morning.”
    Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

  • #5
    Adam Phillips
    “Everybody is dealing with how much of their own aliveness they can bear and how much they need to anesthetize themselves.”
    Adam Phillips

  • #6
    Adam Phillips
    “Lovers, of course, are notoriously frantic epistemologists, second only to paranoiacs (and analysts) as readers of signs and wonders.”
    Adam Phillips

  • #7
    Roald Dahl
    “Don't gobblefunk around with words.”
    Roald Dahl, The BFG

  • #8
    C. JoyBell C.
    “You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy. So let them go, let go of them. I tie no weights to my ankles.”
    C. JoyBell C.

  • #9
    Roald Dahl
    “A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”
    Roald Dahl, The Twits

  • #10
    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
    Søren Kierkegaard

  • #11
    Søren Kierkegaard
    “The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.”
    Søren Kierkegaard

  • #12
    Virginia Woolf
    “Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.”
    Virginia Woolf

  • #13
    Daniel Keyes
    “There are so many doors to open. I am impatient to begin."

    --Charlie Gordan”
    Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

  • #14
    Jeffrey Eugenides
    “I don’t know what you’re feeling. I won’t even pretend.”
    Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

  • #15
    Jeffrey Eugenides
    “It was possible to feel superior to other people and feel like a misfit at the same time.”
    Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot

  • #16
    Jeffrey Eugenides
    “It was something every child knew how to do, maintain a direct and full connection with the world. Somehow you forgot about it as you grew up, and had to learn it again.”
    Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot

  • #18
    Jeffrey Eugenides
    “Some cities have fallen into ruin and some are built upon ruins but others contain their own ruins while still growing.”
    Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot

  • #20
    Michael Cunningham
    “You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
    Michael Cunningham, The Hours

  • #21
    Virginia Woolf
    “Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
    Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

  • #22
    Sylvia Plath
    “I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

  • #23
    Sylvia Plath
    “I laugh, and my lipstick leaves a red stain like a bloody crescent moon on the top of the beer can.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

  • #24
    Audre Lorde
    “Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.”
    Audre Lorde

  • #25
    Audre Lorde
    “Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.”
    Audre Lorde

  • #26
    Patricia Smith
    “I write you a letter that begins
    With I love you and ends with I love you and
    Somewhere in the middle is one goodbye for
    Every hurt”
    Patricia Smith

  • #28
    Corrie ten Boom
    “Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”
    Corrie Ten Boom, Clippings from My Notebook

  • #31
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #32
    Kay Redfield Jamison
    “We all move uneasily within our restraints.”
    Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

  • #33
    Virginia Woolf
    “There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, 'Consume me'.”
    Virginia Woolf, The Waves

  • #34
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. "Good" is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it. And how should there be a "common good"! The term contradicts itself: whatever can be common always has little value. In the end it must be as it is and always has been: great things remain for the great, abysses for the profound, nuances and shudders for the refined, and, in brief, all that is rare for the rare.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

  • #35
    Lauren Groff
    “Because it’s true: more than the highlights, the bright events, it was in the small and the daily where she’d found life.”
    Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies



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