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#1

“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
― Franz Kafka

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#2

“It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.”
― Bill Watterson

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#3

“Ultimately, your theme will find you. You don't have to go looking for it.”
― Richard Russo

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#4

“Wit is the unexpected copulation of ideas.”
― Patrick O'Brian, The Hundred Days

tags: dr-maturin, patrick-o-brian

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#5

“The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley

tags: kiss, love, nature

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#6

“Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.”
― Guy de Maupassant

tags: memory

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#7

“Much of what was said did not matter, and that much of what mattered could not be said.”
― Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity

tags: truth

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#8

“Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.”
― Alex Haley

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#9

“I wanted the whole world or nothing.”
― Charles Bukowski, Post Office

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#10

“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”
― William Wordsworth

tags: on-writing, writing, writing-from-the-heart

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#11

“Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth

tags: history

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#12

“Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

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#13

“I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.”
― Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

tags: conversation, depression, fear, life, speaking, words

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#14

“I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love...I sought what I might love, in love with loving.”
― Augustine of Hippo

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#15

“I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.”
― Margaret Atwood

tags: love, obsession, sleep

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#16

“There is greatness in doing something you hate for the sake of someone you love.”
― Shmuley Boteach

tags: relationships

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#17

“Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
― Charlaine Harris

tags: books-vacation

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#18

“The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one’s own.”
― Willa Cather

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#19

“Shut your eyes and see.”
― James Joyce

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#20

“A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.”
― Philippe Ariès

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#21

“Very few of us are what we seem.”
― Agatha Christie, The Man in the Mist

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#22

“It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.”
― Jo Walton, Among Others

tags: books

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#23

“Please believe that one single positive dream is more important than a thousand negative realities.”
― Adeline Yen Mah, Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter

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#24