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    Adam Phillips
    “The past influences everything and dictates nothing.”
    ― Adam Phillips, Darwin's Worms: On Life Stories and Death Stories
    tags: influence, past
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    Adam Phillips
    “Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.”
    ― Adam Phillips, Monogamy
    tags: monogamy
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: exploitation, poetry, poets
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    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
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    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
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    Adam Phillips
    “Lovers, of course, are notoriously frantic epistemologists, second only to paranoiacs (and analysts) as readers of signs and wonders.”
    ― Adam Phillips
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    Roald Dahl
    “Don't gobblefunk around with words.”
    ― Roald Dahl, The BFG
    tags: crazy, funny, words
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    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.
    tags: forgetting, forgiving, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, letting-go, life, life-and-living, moving-on, people
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    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
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
    tags: future, life, past, reflection, understanding
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
    tags: growing-up, illusions, life
    2057 likes

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

    --Charlie Gordan”
    ― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
    tags: begin, doors, impatient
    253 likes

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    Jeffrey Eugenides
    “I don’t know what you’re feeling. I won’t even pretend.”
    ― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    Michael Cunningham
    “You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
    ― Michael Cunningham, The Hours
    tags: life, peace
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    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
    tags: freedom, women, writing
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    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
    tags: books, life, limits
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    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
    tags: melancholy, sadness
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  • #24
    Audre Lorde
    “Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.”
    ― Audre Lorde
    tags: emotion, feelings, knowledge
    370 likes

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  • #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
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    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
    tags: goodbyes, sad-love
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    Corrie ten Boom
    “Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”
    ― Corrie Ten Boom, Clippings from My Notebook
    tags: strength, worry
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    Albert Einstein
    “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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    Kay Redfield Jamison
    “We all move uneasily within our restraints.”
    ― Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
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    Virginia Woolf
    “There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, 'Consume me'.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, The Waves
    tags: clouds, star
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    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
    tags: dogmatism, ethics, nietzsche
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    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
    55 likes



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