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    Gillian Flynn
    “She’s easy to like. I’ve never understood why that’s considered a compliment - that just anyone could like you.”
    ― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
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    Gillian Flynn
    “Because you can't be as in love as we were and not have it invade your bone marrow. Our kind of love can go into remission, but it's always waiting to return. Like the world's sweetest cancer.”
    ― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
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    Gillian Flynn
    “Unconditional love is an undisciplined love and, as we all have seen, undisciplined love is disastrous.”
    ― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
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    Stendhal
    “Our true passions are selfish.”
    ― Stendhal, The Red and the Black
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    Stendhal
    “I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.”
    ― stendhal
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: bond, celaleddin, inadequacy-of-words, inner, language, mawlana, mawlana-jalal-al-din-rumi, mevlana, pretext, rumi, soul, structuralism, turkey, türkiye, words
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “I know you're tired but come, this is the way.”
    ― Jalalu'l-din Rumi
    tags: divinity, love, poetry, rumi, spiritual, sufi
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “I will soothe you and heal you,
    I will bring you roses.
    I too have been covered with thorns.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: mysticism, poetry, rumi
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    Paul Goldman
    “In one moment, we are now forever,
    in one moment...”
    ― Paul Goldman, Journey Into Oneness
    tags: awakening, inspirational, oneness, rumi
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “You dance inside my chest,
    where no one sees you,

    but sometimes I do, and that
    sight becomes this art.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: love, poetry, rumi
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    Stendhal
    “A good book is an event in my life.”
    ― Stendhal, The Red and the Black
    tags: books, literature, reading
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    Stendhal
    “Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.”
    ― Stendhal
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    Stendhal
    “All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.”
    ― Stendhal
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    Stendhal
    “After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.”
    ― Stendhal, The Red and the Black
    tags: comfort, humor
    80 likes

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    Stendhal
    “A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.”
    ― Stendhal
    tags: love
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    Stendhal
    “There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.”
    ― Stendhal, Love
    tags: beauty, happiness
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    Stendhal
    “Presque tous les malheurs de la vie viennent des fausses idées que nous avons sur ce qui nous arrive. Connaître à fond les hommes, juger sainement des événements, est donc un grand pas vers le bonheur."

    ("Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us. To know men thoroughly, to judge events sanely, is, therefore, a great step towards happiness.")

    [Journal entry, 10 December 1801]”
    ― Stendhal, The Private Diaries of Stendhal
    tags: happiness, reality, reality-check, self-knowledge, self-perception, unhappiness
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    Stendhal
    “But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.”
    ― Stendhal, The Red and the Black
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    Stendhal
    “The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.”
    ― Stendhal, The Red and the Black
    tags: herd-behavior, humor, mob-mentality, peer-pressure
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    Stendhal
    “It was the destiny of Napoleon - would it one day be his?”
    ― Stendhal, The Red and the Black
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    Stendhal
    “Julien felt himself to be strong and resolute like a man who sees clearly into his own heart.”
    ― Stendhal, The Red and the Black
    tags: clarity, personality
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    Stendhal
    “Kakva je to ljubav od koje se zeva?”
    ― Stendhal, The Red and the Black
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    Stendhal
    “I will never demean myself to speak about my courage," said Julien, coldly, "it would be mean to do so. Let the world judge by the facts.”
    ― Stendhal, The Red and the Black
    tags: 1830, courage, discretion
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    Stendhal
    “To write a book is to risk being shot at in public.”
    ― Stendahl
    tags: marie-henri-beyle, stendahl, writing, writing-life
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    Stendhal
    “Un bon livre est un événement pour moi.”
    ― Stendhal
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    Karl Marx
    “The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.

    [These words are also inscribed upon his grave]”
    ― Karl Marx, Eleven Theses on Feuerbach
    tags: action, change, ideology, philosophy, resistance, struggle
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    Karl Marx
    “I am nothing but I must be everything.”
    ― Karl Marx, Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: trust, truth
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    Peter De Vries
    “Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation — the Apollonian and the Dionysian, or spontaneity and restraint, emotion and discipline.”
    ― Peter De Vries, Reuben, Reuben
    tags: misattributed-to-hemingway, writing-drinking
    1770 likes

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    Ernest Hemingway
    “There's no one thing that's true. It's all true.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls
    1150 likes



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