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#1

“A fallen blossom
returning to the bough, I thought --
But no, a butterfly.”
― Arakida Moritake, Traditional Japanese Poetry: An Anthology

tags: blossoms, butterflies, flowers, poetry

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#2

“When Great Trees Fall

When great trees fall,
rocks on distant hills shudder,
lions hunker down
in tall grasses,
and even elephants
lumber after safety.

When great trees fall
in forests,
small things recoil into silence,
their senses
eroded beyond fear.

When great souls die,
the air around us becomes
light, rare, sterile.
We breathe, briefly.
Our eyes, briefly,
see with
a hurtful clarity.
Our memory, suddenly sharpened,
examines,
gnaws on kind words
unsaid,
promised walks
never taken.

Great souls die and
our reality, bound to
them, takes leave of us.
Our souls,
dependent upon their
nurture,
now shrink, wizened.
Our minds, formed
and informed by their
radiance,
fall away.
We are not so much maddened
as reduced to the unutterable ignorance
of dark, cold
caves.

And when great souls die,
after a period peace blooms,
slowly and always
irregularly. Spaces fill
with a kind of
soothing electric vibration.
Our senses, restored, never
to be the same, whisper to us.
They existed. They existed.
We can be. Be and be
better. For they existed.”
― Maya Angelou

tags: american-writers, death, i-shall-not-be-moved, life, maya-angelou, peace, poem, poems, poet, poetry, poets, soul, souls, trees, when-great-trees-fall, writers, writing

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#3

“Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we’ll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay.”
― Jess C Scott, EyeLeash: A Blog Novel

tags: body, boy, boyfriend, boys, cool, culture, desire, emotion, friendship, funny, honesty, humor, humour, imagination, individuality, life, love, music, novel, passion, poem, poems, poet, poetry, poetry-life, poets, reality, relationships, romance, self, sex, technology, truth, wisdom, young, youth

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#4

“Could I have been anyone other than me?”
― Dave Matthews

tags: deep-thoughts, me, others

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#5

“When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.”
― Dylan Thomas

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#6

“The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor, philosophy, religion

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#7

“We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

tags: discovery, life, world

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#8

“My love for those I love -- not many -- not very many, but don't I love them so?”
― Emily Dickinson

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#9

“I have been bent and broken, but -I hope- into a better shape.”
― Emily Dickinson

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#10

“Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on.
I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.”
― jonathan safran foer

tags: desperate, life, losing, love, nostalgia, pain, regret, solitude

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#11

“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more”
― Lord Byron

tags: nature, poetry, solitude

2867 likes

#12

“There is something immensely scary about putting yourself out there for people to love or hate you, fan or pan you, review or screw you.”
― L.V. Lewis, Fifty Shades of Jungle Fever

tags: african-american-authors, contemporary-romance, erotic-romance, interracial-romance, parody

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#13

“It was the wildness of it that got me going: the primal lust, the sheer needs of two people in heat, quickly finding ways to express their sacred hunger to each other in animal passion.”
― Fiona Thrust, Naked and Sexual

tags: arousal, desire, erotic, erotic-romance, erotica, intimacy, life, love, lust, lustful, men, men-and-women, naked, passion, passionate-love, relationships, romance, seduction, sensuality, sex, sexual-hunger, sexual-needs, sexual-passion, sexual-power, sexual-union, sexuality, women

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#14

“You can say whatever you like to me. I make no moral judgments."
Cassandra was slow to reply, momentarily distracted by his eyes. They were blue with dapples of brilliant green around the pupils, but one eye had far more green than the other.
"Everyone makes judgments," she said in response to his statement.
"I don't. My sense of right and wrong is different from most people's. You could say I'm a moral nihilist."
"What's that?"
"Someone who believes nothing is innately right or wrong."
"Oh, that's dreadful," she exclaimed.
"I know," he said, looking apologetic.
Perhaps some gently bred young women would have been shocked, but Cassandra was accustomed to unconventional people. She'd grown up with Pandora, whose twisty-turny, hippy-hoppity brain had enlivened an unbearably secluded life. In fact, Mr. Severin possessed a kind of contained energy that reminded her a little of Pandora. One could see it in the eyes, the quicksilver workings of a mind that ran faster than those of other people.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Chasing Cassandra

tags: cassandra-and-tom, nihilist, nonjudgmental, pandora-ravenel, tom-severin, unconventional

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#15

“Sometimes, if only in your mind and regardless of what others think, you must live beyond the fence and know your shit is way too sick to ever be quarantined.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

tags: achievement, be-different, believe-in-yourself, confidence, follow-your-dreams, know-your-worth, outside-the-box, quarantine, uncontainable, unconventional

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#16

“All our wisdom is stored in the trees.”
― Santosh Kalwar

tags: green, life-and-living, trees, wisdom

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#17

“There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.”
― George Gordon Byron

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#18

“I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.”
― George Gordon Byron

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#19

“What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?”
― George Gordon Byron

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#20

“If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.”
― Lord George Gordon Byron

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#21

“The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

tags: growing-older, life-experience

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#22

“Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?”
― Cornelia Funke

tags: books, character, cornelia-funke, existentialism, words, writers, writing

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#23

“There are many forms of love as there is moments in time, and you are capable of feeling them all at different stages of your life.”
― Shannon Alder

tags: feelings, growth, learning, love, maturity, moments, nostalgia, relationships, romance, stages

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#24

“I felt a pang -- a strange and inexplicable pang that I had never felt before.
It was homesickness.
Now, even more than I had earlier when I'd first glimpsed it, I longed to be transported into that quiet little landscape, to walk up the path, to take a key from my pocket and open the cottage door, to sit down by the fireplace, to wrap my arms around myself, and to stay there forever and ever.”
― Alan Bradley, The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag

tags: cottage, dreaming, homesickness, nostalgia

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#25

“Those hours given over to basking in the glow of an imagined
future, of being carried away in streams of promise by a love or
a passion so strong that one felt altered forever and convinced
that even the smallest particle of the surrounding world was
charged with purpose of impossible grandeur; ah, yes, and
one would look up into the trees and be thrilled by the wind-
loosened river of pale, gold foliage cascading down and by the
high, melodious singing of countless birds; those moments, so
many and so long ago, still come back, but briefly, like fireflies
in the perfumed heat of summer night.”
― Mark Strand, Almost Invisible: Poems

tags: life, nostalgia, poetry, regret

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#26

“Time and I have quarrelled. All hours are midnight now. I had a clock and a watch, but I destroyed them both. I could not bear the way they mocked me.”
― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

tags: insanity, madness, time

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#27

“What are men to rocks and mountains?”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: men, mountains, rocks

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#28

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

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#29

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

tags: charles-bayard-mitchell

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#30

“An ugly, lovely town ... crawling, sprawling ... by the side of a long and splendid curving shore. This sea-town was my world.”
― Dylan Thomas

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