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    Gaston Bachelard
    “I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.”
    ― Gaston Bachelard , The Poetics of Space
    tags: dream, house, privacy, space
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    Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
    “Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty.”
    ― Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, In Praise of Shadows
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    Kakuzō Okakura
    “Our mind is the canvas on which the artists lay their colour; their pigments are our emotions; their chiaroscuro the light of joy, the shadow of sadness. The masterpiece is of ourselves, as we are of the masterpiece.”
    ― Kakuzō Okakura, The Book of Tea
    tags: art, representation
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    Kakuzō Okakura
    “We are ever brutal to those who love and serve us in silence, but the time may come when, for our cruelty, we shall be deserted by these best friends of ours.”
    ― Kakuzō Okakura, The Book of Tea
    tags: friendship, love
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    Keri Hulme
    “I am not a person to say the words out loud / I think them strongly, or let them hunger from the page.”
    ― Keri Hulme
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    Irvin D. Yalom
    “Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.”
    ― Irvin D. Yalom, The Schopenhauer Cure
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    Rob Sheffield
    “When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other.”
    ― Rob Sheffield, Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time
    tags: death, music, remember, songs
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    Yiannis Ritsos
    “ξέρεις, καμιά φορά, θαυμάζοντας, ξεχνάς, ό,τι θαυμάζεις,
    σου φτάνει ο θαυμασμός σου”
    ― Yannis Ritsos
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    Juhani Pallasmaa
    “The door handle is the handshake of the building.”
    ― Juhani Pallasmaa, The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses
    tags: architecture, phenomenology
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    Charles Baudelaire
    “If the word doesn't exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn't exist.”
    ― Charles Baudelaire
    tags: literature, words, writing
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    Anaïs Nin
    “Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
    ― Anais Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
    tags: friendship
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    Anaïs Nin
    “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”
    ― anaïs nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 7: 1966-1974
    tags: inspirational, journey, quest, seekers, travel
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    Henry Miller
    “One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.”
    ― Henry Miller
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    Henry Miller
    “Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.”
    ― Henry Miller
    tags: meaning-of-life
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    Henry Miller
    “An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.”
    ― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer
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    J.K. Rowling
    “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: dreams, life
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    J.K. Rowling
    “To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: death, dumbledore, harry, inspirational, philosophers-stone, ron, sorcerers-stone
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    It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our
    “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
    tags: abilities
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
    tags: dumbledore, philosophy
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    J.K. Rowling
    “It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
    tags: fear-unknown
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    J.K. Rowling
    “After all this time?"
    "Always...”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    tags: love
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    André Aciman
    “We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything - what a waste!”
    ― Andre Aciman, Call Me by Your Name
    tags: aciman, call-me-by-your-name, italy, love
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    André Aciman
    “People who read are hiders. They hide who they are. People who hide don’t always like who they are.”
    ― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name
    tags: readers
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    André Aciman
    “Most of us can't help but live as though we've got two lives to live, one is the mockup, the other the finished version, and then there are all those versions in between. But there's only one, and before you know it, your heart is worn out, and, as for your body, there comes a point when no one looks at it, much less wants to come near it. Right now there's sorrow. I don't envy the pain. But I envy you the pain. (p. 225)”
    ― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name
    tags: choices-and-consequences, coming-out, love-and-loss, unrequited-love
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    Italo Calvino
    “A person's life consists of a collection of events,
    the last of which could also change the meaning of the whole,
    not because it counts more than the previous ones
    but because once they are included in a life,
    events are arranged in an order that is not chronological but, rather,
    corresponds to an inner architecture.”
    ― Italo Calvino, Mr Palomar
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    Alain de Botton
    “It is in books, poems, paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ourselves that we might otherwise never have thought to acknowledge.”
    ― Alain de Botton, The Architecture of Happiness
    tags: art, emotion
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    Emma Cline
    “That was our mistake, I think. One of many mistakes. To believe that boys were acting with a logic that we could someday understand. To believe that their actions had any meaning beyond thoughtless impulse. We were like conspiracy theorists, seeing portent and intention in every detail, wishing desperately that we mattered enough to be the object of planning and speculation. But they were just boys. Silly and young and straightforward; they weren't hiding anything.”
    ― Emma Cline, The Girls
    tags: girls, girls-and-boys, mistakes, teenage-love, teenagers
    156 likes

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    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    “The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance”
    ― Percy Bysshe Shelley
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    Fernando Pessoa
    “We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love.”
    ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
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    John Steinbeck
    “It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.”
    ― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
    tags: absence, loss
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