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#1

“I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.”
― Anaïs Nin

tags: anaïs-nin, love, polyamory

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#2

“Writers do not live one life, they live two. There is the living and then there is the writing. There is the second tasting, the delayed reaction.”
― Anais Nin

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#3

“Stories do not end.”
― anais nin

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“They courted the face on the screen, the face of translucence, the face of wax on which men found it possible to imprint the image of their fantasy.”
― anais nin

tags: anais-nin, ladders-to-fire, this-hunger, woman

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#5

“You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”
― oscar wilde

tags: attributed-no-source

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#6

“The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

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#7

“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.”
― Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance

tags: family, food, thanksgiving

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#8

“Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#9

“To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: humour

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#10

“A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#11

“Only the shallow know themselves”
― oscar wilde

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#12

“It is the stupid and the ugly who have the best of it in this world”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: oscar-wilde, the-picture-of-doran-gray

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#13

“One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#14

“Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.”
― Charles Baudelaire, The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays

tags: genius

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#15

“I think it's good for a person to spend time alone. It gives them an opportunity to discover who they are and to figure out why they are always alone.”
― Amy Sedaris, I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence

tags: alone, being-alone, self-knowledge

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#16

“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my eyes and all is born again.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

tags: poetry

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#17

“And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter— they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: confidences, secrets, sharing-secrets

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#18

“I write only because
There is a voice within me
That will not be still”
― Sylvia Plath, Letters Home

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#19

“I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.

(This quote is probably wrongly attributed to Sylvia Plath)”
― Sylvia Plath

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#20

“How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: love, yearning

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#21

“So many people are shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would open up, unfolding quite wonderfully, if only you were interested in them.”
― Sylvia Plath, Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose and Diary Excerpts

tags: confidence, loneliness, shyness

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#22

“I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.”
― Anais Nin

tags: anais-nin, inspirational, living, mermaids, no-fear, sea

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#23

“Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it. ”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay

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#24

“Everyone forgets Icarus also flew.”
― Jack Gilbert, Refusing Heaven: Poems

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#25

“No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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#26

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

tags: life

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#27

“Have you ever noticed how ‘What the hell’ is always the right decision to make?”
― Terry Johnson, Insignificance

tags: humor, misattributed-to-marilyn-monroe, philosophy

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#28

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

tags: action, attitude, choice, imagination, inspiration, life, pretend

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#29

“You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart always will be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place.”
― Miriam Adeney

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#30

“Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. ”
― Coco Chanel

tags: failure, success, time

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