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#1

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality

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#2

“The best revenge is living well without you. ”
― Joyce Carol Oates, ed.

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#3

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin

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#4

“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
― Albert Camus

tags: humanity, life, mankind, mortality

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#5

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929

tags: fact, ignorance, truth

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#6

“Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”
― Albert Camus

tags: attributed-no-source

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#7

“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”
― Anaïs Nin

tags: men, women

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#8

“This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

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#9

“I am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing my darling. Only a fool would give out such a vital organ”
― Anais Nin

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#10

“Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

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#11

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
― William Shakespear, Hamlet

tags: philosophy

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#12

“If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there”
― George Harrison

tags: life, paraphrase-of-lewis-carroll

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#13

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

tags: books, thought

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#14

“Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.”
― Mark Twain

tags: happiness, sanity

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#15

“Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”
― J. D. Salinger

tags: salinger, stories

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#16

“If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

tags: neurosis

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#17

“Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.”
― Mark Twain

tags: heartbreak

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#18

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

tags: inspirational

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#19

“Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.”
― Jack Kerouac

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#20

“The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.”
― Mark Twain

tags: happiness

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#21

“Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.”
― Henry David Thoreau

tags: morality, usefulness

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#22

“I'd learned myself by the age of sixteen that just as girls guarded their virginity, boys guarded something less tangible which they called Themselves.”
― Joyce Johnson, Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir

tags: beat, beats, feminism

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#23

“Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: importance, kiss, kissing

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#24

“The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.”
― Freidrich Neitzsche

tags: philosophy, women

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#25

“There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.”
― Mae West

tags: women

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#26

“A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.”
― Lewis Mumford

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#27

“Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.”
― Margaret Atwood, Surfacing

tags: evil, stupidity

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#28

“I never change, I simply become more myself.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Solstice

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#29

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst

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#30

“The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

tags: criticism, freedom, freedom-of-thought, independence

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